PSC British & Commonwealth CMP 15 cwt Truck in 1/72 scale

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Excellent work, Larry.
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That's a handsome little build. Nice.
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I have added a photo of the rear tub to show the wheel 'arches'. As the rear isn't an exact copy of the rear tub with a wooden body, the arches were made to match the length of the steel panel on the outer sides but at least with the rear tilt opened up or with just tilt hoops it looks the part.

The arches were made with a single strip of styrene marked as 1/8th by 5/32ths which shows how old it is!

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That is proper old strip, Larry, with those imperial measurements! Although I'm used to seeing metric measurements these days I often have to do a conversion in my head back to imperial so I can picture the size, which shows my age somewhat :ha:

Great looking build BTW.
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More options for this kit; adding tilt hoops and cutting out the side windows. The hoops are a bit to thick I have realised so they may be replaced. As for the horizontal linking bars between each hoop, they were fitted at the factory but once in service if you have to take the tilt off and on repeatedly these bars become a nuisance so get chucked (I've been there and done that in Army on other more modern vehicles)

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The undersides showing the original rubbish transmission on right and the amended transmission on left before adding gear box and drive shafts. The wheels are from CMK in Czech Republic as on the completed vehicle on page 1

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Your changes make a big difference.

Having built the PSC Churchill, Sherman & T-55’s I’m becoming a big fan of the PSC kits.
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My next idea is to build a wireless body for one of these kits; there are two for which I'm looking for plans; WIRE-3 and WIRE-5. The difference is the 3 was made of wood sheets and the WIRE 5 was steel. They look very similar and a characteristic of each is a spare wheel recessed in to the side of the wireless body on the passenger side.
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Great little build 8-)
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With a bit of work the PSC CMP 15cwt can look quite good, certainly much better than some of the Airfix kits I used to build in 1970s.

On this vehicle cutting out the side 'windows' needed care. Note also the CMK wheels and roof hatches nicked off the CMP Field Artillery Tractor. These vehicles are supposed to represent immediate post D-Day era before older vehicles were lost and replaced by newer ones in SC.15 Olive Drab. The Black Mickey Mouse pattern camo was done with an old brush cut right down almost to nothing so that a small dab of black could be applied in small circles to give the right pattern. The Loyd Carrier is another good kit.

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Very smart collection.
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Nice work, I’m a big fan of the PSC kits.

Great tip about using a cut down brush for the Mickey Mouse pattern cam.

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A very nice collection!
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Its been ages since I last posted on here, but for modellers looking to model Canadian CMPs, I have been campaigning for better wheels to go with PSC and IBG kits for awhile now and one company I have recently found has produced larger replacement wheels than CMK resin kits that do 9x16 small wheels for C.15 models in 1/72 scale as Firestone or Dunlop

The new firm is TANK models in Poland

https://www.sklep.tankmodels.pl/en/

TANK models now produce the correct wheels for the IBG Chevrolet C30 and the PSC Chev Field Artillery Tractor.

They are a good match for 10.50x16 or 10.20x20 that were used on larger CMPs of 30 cwt and over and the GMC Otter. The Kit reference is TM72008
Perhaps someone with better maths than me can say which they match best; they are 13mm in diameter including the tyre and the wheel is 8mm in diameter. the tyre tickness is 3mm

Unlike CMK wheels, the TANK models set is for 5 wheels with two front, two rear wheels and a spare.

The only silly thing is that they market them as Chevrolet C.15 wheels for the IBG kit and the photo on their website on a C.15 makes them look ridiculous (though the Danish Army post war used such sizes)

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They also do a correction kit for the IBG Bedford QL range in 1/72

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Lastly I have just seen that the firm does desert tyres for Dragon LRDG Chevs so a bit of mix and match could suyit a desert CMP 3 tonner
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