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Italeri - Chevy Gun Tractor and 105mm
Plasticbattle
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Donegal, Ireland
Joined: May 14, 2002
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Posted: Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 10:19 AM UTC
Hi Guys
Building stage complete. Italeri´s Chevy gun tractor and their 105mm. Nice kit, fit a bit suspect and instruction are a bit vague. Overall Im very happy with it though. It will be painted in canadian camo colours for Italy ´44. Sand with battleship grey camo. The 105mm is a US gun, but somehow the canadians ended up towing it. I guess I will finish it in US green and weather both the same for something different. I built the gun to go with my DUKW, but changed my mind as there was so many loading improbabilities.
Fear: Is the gun built in firing mode?? Somebody put me out of my misery!!

A special thank you to Dave Cox for his help with a lot of colour questions on these. Cheers Dave.

No ... this vehicle has never been parked, in or near, Liverpool!

The windows were masked before i fixed them in place.


Half of the steps in the instructions are for the underneath.

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Joined: April 17, 2002
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Posted: Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 11:02 AM UTC
Frank:

Nice set of in progress pics on your current project.

The 105 is kind of a nifty little build that is a dry brusher's dream come true with all the different surfaces and shapes. Cool underbelly on the Chev--I was surprised at the amount of detail.

Knowing the level of your modeling skills, this combination will be a great looking addition for shelf display. Going to put it on a little dio base of some sort???

Keep us posted.

Steve
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Posted: Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 11:03 AM UTC
quote: "No ... this vehicle has never been parked, in or near, Liverpool!"

Nah, Scousers would have had the engine and spare tire as well !! LOL :-) :-)

Glad to have been of help, just let us see it when it's finished.
The Italeri ( originally Peerless Max, then Airfix) CMP quad is a great model, you get the cab parts for a truck in the box as well, been the basis for most of my truck conversions.
Petro
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Posted: Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 12:39 PM UTC
Good looking build so far.
I have seen many pics of the truck, yet i never knew it was a chevy.
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