The Haunted Tank (Jigsaw Tank)

There’s the box. I was thinking about using the Zvezda kit, but it was sold out at the LHS and this one was cheaper... besides, it’s gonna get chopped up a bit. 

I’ll use the turret from the Trumpeter M26 Pershing kit that was leftover after I built my blue Tintin Lunar Tank. 

Here’s the sprues. Looks good. 

First thing to do is put the turret together and chop open the top of the T-34 shell to figure out the placement. I wonder which barrel I should use? 

Ok. This should work. In the main reference pic there’s only four bogie wheels. However, a) the number of wheels varied, sometimes panel to panel, let alone issue to issue, and b) I’ve see some people try to cut the chassis and it doesn’t leave any room for the forward driver hatches. 

A bit of knife work... and it fits, more or less. 

Ok... let’s use the upper part of a Matchbox M-24 Chaffee... well, part of it. 

Ok... now we’re getting somewhere.