World War II Project - Building the Rubicon M4A3E2 "Jumbo" Sherman - Hull

After the turret you move to the upper hull and add the additional armor plating represented by the resin parts. Unfortunately you have to use super glue for this step. The front plate is pretty straight forward, you need to remove just about everything on the front of the plastic hull but that is easily done with clippers or a knife (be careful of slipping when using a blade though). I did a quick file across the whole surface to provide a good gluing surface.

So the front plate pretty much just slid into place. The side plates are a different story. Even though I checked the placement, twice, before applying glue I still managed to get things slightly out of alignment. There is a lip on the bottom of the side of the upper hull and the side plates fit quite neatly on to this little ledge. My mistake was trying to slide them down on to the ledge, of course the super glue grabbed quicker than I had hoped and the plates came out somewhat misaligned. It stands out, to me, quite a bit at the moment but after things are painted up it will look fine. Remember the new front plate and the new side plates don't touch each other, there really is a gap, take a look at some reference materials before you glue them in place if you aren't sure.

The lower hull just replaces the plastic transmission cover with a resin one, that was a piece of cake, just slid right into place.