Churchill SP 5.5inch

[buzzbomb]

At the moment I am working through a bunch of half started, abandoned and bits projects.
I found a box of Churchill parts left over from the Black Prince scratchbuild, 3" Gun Carrier conversion (IMA conversion, prior to the AFV Club kit.. grrrrrr ) and some parts left over from a buddies build.

Sadly the major parts missing in all the remaining arts was the suspension parts. Working with what I had I decided to work on a SP 5.5inch Medium gun, perhaps in a '46 scenario it was done on redundant Churchills as Centurions came online as gun tanks
So first up cobbled together a fixed superstructure


Then went to town drilling holes for Tichy Train rivets, to give it a bit of interest.


Initially due to lack of suspension I planned to do the "fording a stream and hide the lack of roadwheels" plan, but one of our local shops was able to supply a couple of sprues for the suspension

yahoooooo with suspension


then to paint



Then to overdoing the weathering 


and.. dragging it back to reasonable... whew !!!


This went together over a couple of weekends.. just tardy in posting up here.. sorry about that

Cheers
Brian T

[TallEng]

Looks very good like that
Is it 1/35?
And I'm afraid I've got to show my ignorance and ask
What would be special about a 5.5inch SP?

Regards
Keith

[Dizzyfugu]

Wild! BTW: Is that a bottle of champagne on the right side...? 

Nice weathering, too, very subtle. 

[NARSES2]

I like that. Quite plausible to in my opinion. I built a few Churchill SPG's in 1/76 eon's ago when I was still an active wargammer. Back in the 70's .

I like the angular superstructure in particular, it has a TOG kind of look to it. As per the TOG 1 and 2. Maybe the old guys got onto SP's after the crisis of the early war years was over ? 

[pyro-manic]

Ohh, I do like that! Very nicely done.

[Gondor]

Wild! BTW: Is that a bottle of champagne on the right side...? 

Nice weathering, too, very subtle. 

If your talking about the Green and brass items then they would be Halon Fire Extinguishers.

Gondor

[zenrat]

Good job.
Particularly on the commander.

[Wardukw]

Buzzbomb mate you nailed it here .. you may think you over did the weathering well you didnt ,,it looks very real and looks like its been a very dusty day and this beauty has been out playing 
Well done man ..very well done .



Phill

[Captain Canada]

Wow....that is gorgeous ! Love how you can take something toy like, as it looked to me with the unpainted styrene, and then end up with a miniature version of the real ( sic ) thing ! I think the weathering looks perfect too.....awesome looking tanks.

Cheers !