Lost and Found

After all my attempts to locate the Airfix Churchill Crocodile kit in my stash up in the loft, it turned up at the bottom of a box of kits right where I had put it. Typical. Anyway, I now have a 1/76th scale Airfix Crocodile that I can bash together with the PSC 1/72nd scale Churchill. Huzzah! Luckily, someone has tried this before and has produced a very useful 'How To?' which will be my template for the same operation, albeit cutting a few corners to keep it simple:

https://mostlytanks.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/kit-bashing-a-churchill-crocodile-part-i-the-tank/

I've also managed to re-purpose the Sherman Firefly hull to add another Sherman M4 to the late war Battle of the Bulge US tank force. I had a spare turret from an earlier job, so just plonked it onto the hull, assuming no one would notice it's from an M4A3. If they do I can just pass it off as a field repair but I may add a bit of stowage or camo netting to hide the loaders hatch anyway.

The hull front had a British pattern long storage box glued to it, so that was removed and replaced with a length of track link, with some green stuff sandbags to cover up the plated in bow machine gun. This means I have only had to bin the Firefly turret rather than the whole model, so everyone's a winner. When the PSC M4A4 kit arrives later this week, I'll then build the replacement Firefly.