One area that needs a bit of dressing up is the crew cab area if you're going to leave it open. I added the gear selector box, accelerator pedal, some type of air or vacuum hose, canteens, first aid box, fire extinguisher and numerous instruction placards. Still needs a coat of flat.

This is a great thread.

I am assuming that the additional items came from the Hobby Fan kit? Or was it easy enough to find them from another source?

The placard and instrument decals came from Archer for the M113. The canteens, first aid box and fire extinguisher are from the spares box. The accelerator pedal is from an Eduard PE set for the M548 and the all the other bits are spares from 1/32 scale aircraft kits. The vacuum hose is wire wrapped wire.

The 'air hose" may be filtered air supply, for NBC environments. It would plug into the armor crewman's M25 gas mask's filter container.

Work on some of the more fun bits. Finishing up the launching truss assembly and the missile itself. Missile needs a coat of flat varnish before pinning it to the launcher.

It's some of the small things that are bogging me down. In this case it's the bench type seats in the 'fighting compartment'. During my limited exposure to the M752/667 I don't recall any of those details and as best I can see from the pictures is that they were hinged and folded up. What I don't know is if the hinge was a single long steel rod attached to metal tabs welded to the side walls or small individual metal pins.

The kit items modified by shortening their overall length to fit the kit interior, and adding small extensions for the hinge sections.



The hinge sections added and each has been drilled out.

Test fit on one of the crew bench seats. The brackets will be cut to size so the edge of the seat rests back from the edge. Still not real sure of the seats period as I can't find any pictures of them installed and I don't have any relevant TM' that might show this stuff.

I just found out the reason you don’t see those bench seats in any operational pictures is they were removed. Crews didn’t like them and they interfered with the control surface containers. They were light weight metal not wood. I think that solves my dilemma, leaving the things but will add the metal tabs the seats were mounted to.

Here's my attempt to show the metal tabs for the seat hinges. Just need to be painted with the base interior color. Not keen on waiting for the Panzer Art release of the 113 road wheels, so I may just opt to use some from Academy which to me look better than the Dragon offering.