British Sherman ARV

This is my entry in the club's Engineering Build.  I started with the Cyberhobby Sherman M4A4 tank kit. To convert it into an ARV, I used the Legend conversion kit, which consists of a lot of resin parts and a lot of photoetch. The figures are from the Miniart British Tank Crew. The jerry cans are from an AFV Club set and are tied down with a heavy thread I found at Hobby Lobby. Insignias were sourced from Accurate Armor and Archer. One antenna base is scratch built and one is an aftermarket 3D print. Antennas are fiber optic line. Stowage behind roof hatch is from Value Gear.

The Cyberhobby kit assembles beautifully. The Legend set is pretty good but the resin has heavy lugs on some of the parts. Reference photos of the real thing are also helpful in placing items, although there are pretty good photos with the set. I had to scratch build parts of the interior just in case one could see in through the open hatch, around the figures.

Light weathering was done with oils and powders. My photos didn't show them to be muddy, just dusty, with little rust. I also darkened the the jerry can tie down aftertaking these photos.

Despite cursing a few of the parts in the Legend transkit, this was a really fun build.