Tracked and ready to roll

After the chimeras I had run out of tracks, well single tracks anyway and I didn't want to mess about trying to cut up longer ones. So I got some ordered and got on with the rest of this. However now they've arrived I wanted to start this log.

The design is based loosely on the wespe and hummel, but only loosely since I didn't actually look at any photos before putting this together, just dove in.

The gun shield stands just slightly higher than the top of the chimera, but the main body is much lower. I was thinking it would be like the m110 (and I'm sure many other spgs) in that the driver would stick his head out the hatch to drive.

Lots of details to add, and I still need to sort out the gun and mounts. I have them made, but the gun refuses to sit straight and I think I'll have to redrill the mounts in the support. Which is annoying, since it's too big for my pin vice and I end up using my power drill!

Very happy with the design though. It looked god awful before I added the tracks (why I hadn't posted the log until now!) but I think it works now. And the centre bit echoes the chimeras, which is exactly the point so they feel like part o the same army.

I would start a second to use as a griffon, but I'm all out of big road wheels now, and will be for a while until I've bought another five chimera kits 😉