I have a couple of the Plastic Soldier Company 1/72nd scale Churchills and was thunking of converting one of them into a Crocodile flame thrower variant for the WAT! Operation Blackcock project, even if it has the wrong hull. This requires the flame fuel trailer and the flame projector fitment in place of the hull machine gun. I had a look for some resin conversion bits but S and S models no longer have a Crocodile conversion kit and I didn't like the look of the Butler's Printed Models 3D printed option, even if it was quite cheap compared to the resin option.
However, S and S do have a kit for an M4 Sherman Crocodile, which used the same trailer as the Churchill variant, so I've ordered one to see if I can kit bash it together with the PSC Churchill, scratch building or adapting any parts that aren't directly useable. It's worth a try and at least I can field something approximating a Crocodile, at least at arms length. I don't even know how it will be used in the game, as there are no rules for flame throwing tanks, but it will be fun to build one anyway!
Ah, the Crocodile! The weapon the Germans described as "Un-English." I converted an Airfix Churchill to a Croc years ago and it looked pretty good - then some bugger nicked it. :( Yours is shaping up nicely.
ReplyDeleteGreat conversion. But the Airfix Crocodile parts fit perfectly onto the PSC Churchill, if you ever need another one (and those Crocs were cheap here, 7-8 euros per kit, so you have a spare Churchill hull so oyou can make a mud bogged one for kicks as a bonus.
ReplyDeleteYes that was my first option and I thought I had a kit in the loft somewhere but I can't find it. The cheapest one I've found is about a tenner, which is more expensive than the S an S resin kit, so I decided to cut my losses and go with that option. Maybe an Airfix kit will turn up at some point?
ReplyDeleteAnd so it has. Found it in the loft so it's all systems go!
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