Jakko’s Sherman BARV

[Guest]

Thanks. I suddenly had the inspiration to ask on a forum for people who own and restore the real thing rather than build models of it, and it looks like I was lucky that someone there actually has a 2-pounder stripped apart at the moment

[Guest]

It’s finished (finally ) after I put in some effort tonight:

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The thingies on the rounded cap are plastic strip and rod plus punched discs and hexagons of various sizes, the clasp-type thing on the other end is 0.5 mm plastic card with0.88 mm rod for the pin, and I made the scars where the trunnions were cut off with a torch by applying some putty that I textured with a pointed tool.

[Andy T]

A cracking bit of scratch work and impressive tenacity on the research front!

[Waspie]

Obviously a great deal of effort both in making and researching that tiny part - reflected in the end result. Brilliant scratchery in action.

[Tworrs]

An excellent result Jakko.

[Guest]

Thanks, guys And to think I thought I wouldn’t need to do much research on this vehicle, just build it straight from the box and we’re good …

[Guest]

Last addition before continuing with the paintwork:

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Simply bent from copper wire and glued in place, then painted grey to match the rest of the model. After that, I got out the airbrush and first sprayed Tamiya XF-81 on the new additions (the mesh behind the bumper and the recoil cylinder, which is still separate), and then lighter grey made by mixing XF-1 flat white into it, on all of the panels etc. No picture of that, though, because I doubt it will show up well in a photo.

[Jim R]

That recoil cylinder is a superb bit of scratch building Jakko. A small part of the model as a whole but most puzzling and probably very, very satisfying to get done.

[Guest]

Thanks I would have preferred to take it from a kit to save myself a lot of effort, but the only real choice is the Vulcan one that’s hard to find, expensive, and unbuildable if you take these bits out. So scratchbuilding it had to be …