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The turret interior painted up. I also have the 37mm gun ready to go in, then I can put the top of the turret on.

Yep, put his hips into it. I've seen a video of a restored FT with the turret being rotated. They turned without much effort.

Working on the turret interior. They were not to complicated, but there are a few items that are features of the FT's turret I wanted to add. The bolted mantlet plate, and the gunner's wooden waist swivel. The gunner Positioned is body in it to manually rotate the turret.

Your funny Rhino...lol. Got a trucker friend who goes through Atlanta from TN to FLA all the time. He told me if your going I-75 nine times out of 10 balling straight through downtown is better than the bypass.

On a positive note, we found a pleasant way around Nashville.

Well, that sucks. Mine aren't that bad, anyway, Barney.

Good plan!

No, we went to the Alexander dysfunctional (my) family convention 🫣🤭🙂

I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have. Had to get it fixed before it spread. The auto glass place was great though. Can't tell it was ever cracked. We went up to Crawfordsville, where I grew up to see family. It was just a quick trip. Two days is about all I could handle...haha.

-A three day trip to Indiana $$$. - Marion Co, TN deputy in hot pursuit peppered wife's Porsche with gravel and cracked the Windshield... fixed $$$$. -Home central unit needed servicing $$. -One of two Bradford Pear trees split and fell on the horse pasture fence. Tree cutters coming Thursday...

Thanks errains.

Yeah. Pretty much everything will be painted apart. I'll assemble it all just before the final weathering.

It would be fun to build a full sized replica. Note to self, Buy lottery ticket...

Took me three days to build the tracks. Each link is made up of 3 parts. The sprue gates were huge, so lots of sanding. Glad thats over...

I skimmed through an article on the bankruptcy, (I live under a rock, so I'd never heard of them before yesterday), I gathered they dabled in variety of printing projects, not just modelling.

Thanks Sharmouth! Shapways offered 3D prints of them in 1/16 scale, but they filed for bankruptcy 7-2-24...yes two days ago...haha.

Ok, here's a spent 1918 37mm shell. Judging by this photo it's about 5" long. In 1/16 scale that's around 3/8 of an inch. Have I gone over the edge to even be thinking about turning some?

I just now noticed MrT's build from 2016. His is the machine gun version, #1006. Mine is the Canon. If there's one thing I wish the Canon version had is the 37mm shells. After Scouring the internet for aftermarket offerings it appears there isn't any. For about a minute I thought about turning...

There's a lot to still do on this build, but I was real curious to see how the tracks went together. Surprisingly they go together without any fuss. There's some sanding as there's 5 sprue gates to each track link alone. Takom's ingenious method for assembling them makes up for that, though.