KLOTZEN
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One of my least favorite modeling proclivities is having partial kits laying about with no purpose in life.
My Formations conversion of the Italeri No225 left just such a problem for me.
eBay has a couple of sellers that deal in selling single sprue sets, so I picked up some additional pieces to flesh out the leftovers from the kit and started bashing it together.
Now, all was good and well, and I was going on unencumbered with any complicated facts or such, and then I got Sauled!
A friendly message from Saul informed of that which I didn’t even know I didn’t know.
The Italeri 76 barrel was copied from a –
“... but the 76mm gun barrel on Italeri's Shermans is based on a demilitarized museum example where the barrel is drilled through and covered with a sheet metal sleeve which appears as a step.”
Man, the crash of reality, once something is known, it cant simply be, Unknown.
So, I Sauled off the barrel and fit a correct one, and now, like Ripley in Alien, I’ve made a clean spot and will have to “fix” a bunch of other annoyances, so, she gets her own work sheet!
All kidding aside, Thank you Saul!
My Formations conversion of the Italeri No225 left just such a problem for me.
eBay has a couple of sellers that deal in selling single sprue sets, so I picked up some additional pieces to flesh out the leftovers from the kit and started bashing it together.
Now, all was good and well, and I was going on unencumbered with any complicated facts or such, and then I got Sauled!
A friendly message from Saul informed of that which I didn’t even know I didn’t know.
The Italeri 76 barrel was copied from a –
“... but the 76mm gun barrel on Italeri's Shermans is based on a demilitarized museum example where the barrel is drilled through and covered with a sheet metal sleeve which appears as a step.”
Man, the crash of reality, once something is known, it cant simply be, Unknown.
So, I Sauled off the barrel and fit a correct one, and now, like Ripley in Alien, I’ve made a clean spot and will have to “fix” a bunch of other annoyances, so, she gets her own work sheet!
All kidding aside, Thank you Saul!
