U.S. Self-Propelled 155mm Gun M40

Ingo F
Missed this one as well. Turned out very good! 👍

Dan M Автор
Thank you guys!

The kit is a typical Tamiya kit. Easy to build, good details, a full crew, plenty of ammo projectiles (including decals to mark them). Those HVSS suspensions are so easy to build you gotta marvel at Tamiya's engineering.
As bad things I had to replace the string with a proper metal wire and of course the vinyl tracks. They're not bad but Tamiya makes them a little bit inaccurate as the their T80 track guide-horns are molded as a solid block which is not correct.

Martin Oostrom
Nice job Dan. Setup is really cool with the opened breach and the next shell being brought up. Very nice paintjob as well. 👍

Dan M Автор
Thank you Martin!

@James, while the AFV club is cheaper than Tamiya and is just as detailed it has a couple of flaws:
1. The AFV barrel has the wrong length
2. The vinyl tracks included are only good for the for the Zebra mission prototype (WW2 not Korea). If you want to make a Korean vehicle (and most of the markings in the AFV kit are for this setup) you might want to change the tracks as well

Personally I would have went for the AFV kit as I replaced the tracks anyway if Tamiya would have not included the whole crew. For me this was an important aspect.
Also Tamiya only includes Korean markings.