We had seen these extremely cute tanks from a company called Meng ModelsĪnd thought they would be perfect for our after school club, on the grounds that they would really appeal to the children, they are clip together so that helps us out a lot, and it seems they were designed for first time modellers in an attempt to get children interested in the hobby, which is basically what we are doing with our club, so it seemed the sensible next choice. Our next club is quite a large under taking, and we have spent months on this project. I have to say I’m very pleased with the result……….there are now even more conversion kits for the WWT range, so head over there and check them out.

I then added all the detail parts for the hull from a WWT Sherman kit using super glue. You will need to spend a little time removing the component parts from the resin sprue, which in this case is the old school kind of block, i used a hack saw and a file to do this, the resin is not hard and brittle like some, so it was not too difficult to do this. Very accurate fit to the hull of the wwt tank. Have to say the casting and detail is very crisp, no air bubbles present. Now for a tiny review of the conversion kit. The movie version didn’t have the cast rounded hull, so thought i might make it a little more accurate…….fingers crossed for some HVSS suspension units to finish off the job ) A little later than planned here is the Sherman M4A3 hull which i used to convert “Fury”. Just before Christmas I received a package from Domi over at RetroKit it contained a couple of new conversion kits for the world war toon Sherman models.

Meng world war toon tiger i