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M551 Sheridan
I've sat on sharing this MOC for several years but I think now is the time, after I rebuilt part of the turret. I don't have a good way to take photos so I hope it's alright to share this way.
I originally intended this MOC to be used alongside my CoD 'Desert Tank' (Bradley) for a short stop-motion but never got around to it. It is also based off a really ancient Sheridan that somebody made out of what looked to be ProBuilder parts, but I never found the Mega Construx forum post for it ever again.
Some extra facts:
- I literally found the afvdatabase.com article for the Sheridan right as I was making this post when it would've been handy years ago
- Built mostly out of the Designer Series Scorpion set, some Lego used for the shells I put inside
- By far the easiest detail to make was the IR searchlight. The Tamiya kept it covered, but I made it uncovered out of a clear dome plate pieces and a few smaller pieces
- By far the toughest details to make was the shields for the commander's machine gun, the turret hatches, and the running gear for the tracks. I was originally intending on putting in the small turret that a scorpion gunner would sit in for the commander, but it was far too big and I cut it down to just the frontal shields. The turret hatches took some trial and error, mostly due to me running out of parts that could fit in that tiny space. For the running gear, I had a few of the Halo Infinite mongooses that I thought I could use for the road wheels, but they looked too small. They weren't good for the idler and sprocket neither so I kept the big silver ones off the scorpion instead
- I think thin gun barrels are a very characteristic element of Mega tanks (CoD Battle Tank especially) so I ended up keeping it that way and added on a weird combination fume extractor/bore evacuator/aiming device that I thought looked cool and could make it look a little less wimpy. The inside has a decorative breech that allows the gun to move up/down, to act as a counterbalance for the bore evacuator, and as a way for the figures to sit up on something stable.
- I took quite the creative liberty with some of the greebles/extra details. I cut the smoke grenade launchers down to just 3 on the right side (did not have pieces close to replicating the actual design that were small enough) and made them with the functional flick-fire bricks n' projectiles. I also just stuck 3 of the ammo cans that are supposed to dot the turret all-around on the left. I did want to use the CoD ammo can pieces out of the Anti-Armor Helicopter (Apache) set but did not find any. My next best solution before cutting the cans down were to stick them to the turret with blu-tack. I threw some sandbag pieces on to bolster the thickness underneath the cans. I ultimately chose to skip the frontal "net" attachment and leave some spikes on instead for a more rugged look.
- Skipped the decals found on the Tamiya model and used some of the Scorpion printed pieces instead.
u/Content_Fig7933 — 24 hours ago