Nashorn, Italy

The kit is the Dragon kit and has been sitting on my shelf for years. I bought it when it first came out but realized early that it had some serious "character" flaws. I honestly don't remember building a more poorly designed kit... well maybe back in the mid 70s. The worst part about it was: The kit managed to put ejector pin marks exactly where you don't want them. I don't know what I was thinking when I finally decided to build it. I think I just wanted to get it off my shelf. To try to make the kit palatable, I bought two of the Eduard PE kits and Fruilmodel metal tracks.

In order to "hide" some of the inside detail, I used the SP Gun Crew from Tristar. The crew went in rather well except for the loader. There was no way I could position his left arm to reach the gun's breech. I therefore sculpted his left arm. The figure on the outside of the vehicle is from Dragon’s “Jabo” figure set. The building is an old Verlinden building I got on clearance somewhere. All the furniture therein is homemade.

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