[GZG] The dreaded Panzer Chaffee

Tony wrote: 
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The ex-Matchbox (now Revell) Chaffee is a great model to convert to SF. 
Leave the track guards, suspension and hull sides off and the hole can 
be plated over with a single piece of plastic card. You can either 
decorate the blank side with blowers (the exhausts from a 1/72nd AV-8* 
Harrier would work well) or just leave them blank and you'll have a very

respectable 15mm scale tank. The turret shape is rounded so it doesn't 
look too WW2 and because the Chaffee isn't often recognised outside of 
WW2 buffs you won't have everyone walking up to the table telling you 
they know what your conversions were based on ...
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Hollywood has thought it was easily disguised by grey paint and some
germanic crosses too
- look, slap on some paint and you have a Panzer IV! (Yeah, as if...)

I just looked over the real thing (an M24 at the new Canadian War
Museum). They're not a
bad shape, though the turret shape doesn't follow modern turret
geometries. It depends a
bit what crowd you have - I'd have more chance of slipping through
Leclercs, Leopard IIs,
or various soviet vehicles of modern era than any WW2 tank with my
crowd. Of course, with
one of the guys having taught UN forces AFV recognition, he pretty much
looks at any
scratch build and not only identifies the original core vehicle, but
components looted
from other vehicles along the way... ;) 

Tom B
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