A British boy drives alongside an American M5 artillery tractor in his pedal car and greets the soldiers. The troops have assembled in a English port town ahead of the D-Day landings.
A quick dry assembly of the main structure to check what goes where as the instructions, both visual and written, are pretty useless. Looks like parts will fit together well (when using glue not Blu Tack!).
The kit's front sproket drives don't bear much resemblance to the real thing. A search in the spares box produced a couple of unmade M4 Sherman sproket drives (no idea what manufacturer) which have the right "Fancy Smooth" style sprocket teeth but the wrong style centre. I'm going to have a go at seeing if I can combine the two to create something near enough to the M5's...
The wheel centre proved a bit trickier. Trimmed and sanded of outer teeth okay. Adding bolts from stretched sprue proved tricky - not sure I have found the right glue / technique yet. Picture shows third attempt at securing sprue for one off the bolts. Needs to be secure enough to trim and sand when dried...
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