M-18 Hellcat pt 1

 It's not unusual for me to have multiple projects going on at once, it's the modelers addiction. Hell, I have close to 20 kits in my closet that I haven't even touched since I bought them. But what am I supposed to do when I'm waiting for stuff to dry? Go outside? Ahaha, good one! You can rot in hell,outside!

  Well, ahem...Here's an American tank destroyer I started awhile ago, an M-18 Hellcat. It's going to be in a small diorama scene, something like a field with trees and a wall or something. It's 1:35 scale, meaning if you take the original tank and shrink it down 35 times, you get this size. Which is about five or six inches long from the front to the back, not including the barrel. Figures in this scale are typically two inches tall. Vastly shorter than the Greek.

 What you're looking at here is basically the chassis and the inside of the tank. The drivers seats, the floor under the turret and all the instruments.

 This is the entire tank primed and partially built, test fitting the crew, some modifications will need to be made to get all three people in the turret comfortably. That's right, three of those small guys are gonna be crammed in there!

  I've started the wall and laid out the base, more pictures soon.

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