Dug an old kit out yesterday arvo & started converting it -- Tamiya's Sturmtiger in 35th scale. I've been thinking that despite being built in mid-1944, by early 1945 the big mortar was redundant to needs as there were no German Army assaults happening -- they being on the defensive on every front. So I decided to make it into a Tank-killer by retro-fitting a 128mm gun.
Despite it's cost of $69, the kit is fairly simple with most parts making up the wheels & individual-link tracks (YUK !!)
I needed a new mount for the gun & found that half a ping-pong ball fitted nicely in the large hole in the superstructure. Yet another ball-point pen made a good barrel & a Warhammer base with a collar from an Italeri Elephant made the armoured mantlet.
I will only add a few other new bits 'n' pieces to the model but am wondering about paint for it ..... either a 1970's "Berlin Brigade" type scheme (but different colours) or this one to blend in with an urban setting ?? .....
Thinking that as crews had to wait a few days at the depot for the conversion-kit to arrive or for the conversion to be done, they had time to paint the vehicle & added some foliage to the rear-deck and a liberated picket-fence to complete the disguise once back at the front.
British tank-crews had a saying in Normandy ... " beware of moving haystacks" ... the Russians in Berlin learnt to
beware of moving houses ......