This is the Italeri Staghound Mk 1, with an RB models metal barrel, and stowage mainly by Accurate Armour and Resicast. The figure is by Miniart, and needed a bit of surgery to fit into the turret.
The Italeri Stag is a good kit. The Bronco beats it hands down for detail, IF you have the ability to create an alternative universe in which you have another lifetime to build it. I bought one, looked in the box, looked at the instructions and immediately sold it on Ebay! Life is too short Bronco.... too short!
Anyway, here it is:
This is the DML Sherman 1 Hybrid (Sherman M4 Composite Hull PTO) built as a SRY tank during the summer of 1944. I based it on a photo of a Hybrid Sherman in both Dennis Oliver's "British Sherman Tanks" and Ludovic Fortin's "British Tanks in Normandy". Neither sources attribute the vehicles as SRY, but a random internet reference on a veterans website pointed to that direction, so I went with it.
I removed the loaders hatch and the pistol port from the turret, added some stowage and front hatch locking hasps and the rest was pretty much OOTB. I did enhance the weld seams between the cast and welded parts of the hull which were too narrow in then kit, and added some cast texture with MR Surfacer. British fire extinguishers were added to the hull rear, and the British stowage box on the turret and the driver figure were Ultracast items. The Commander figure in the turret is an ancient white metal figure by Hornet. Markings were from the new Archer range of British formation signs, and rub-down census numbers.
The painted resin base is a Reality in Scale piece, painted by my good pal Jerry Plettenberg. Thanks Jerry!
