The Tortoise heavy assault tank (A39) was a British heavy assault gun design developed during the Second World War, but never put into mass production. It was developed for the task of clearing heavily fortified areas such as the Siegfried Line and as a result favoured armour protection over mobility.
I have the Operation Unthinkable boxed set containing the British and German tanks. The GF9 Operation Unthinkable boxed set, the British versus German, contains 17 tanks, two of which are the Tortoise heavy assault tank.
This is the GF9 finished model.
This the sprue.
Not too may parts. I think I will add some weight to the models.
Constructing the model was quite simple, though initially I wasn’t quite sure about how to affix the tracks.
I did think about adding some extra weight to the model, but couldn’t find the weights I had bought in the past for this purpose.
I decided to put together the second one as well.
So, now I have two to paint.
The next stage was a white undercoat.
I wanted to add some shadow to the model, so I painted the underneath of the model with a black spray.
After that, I wanted to capture the dark bronze green of the Tortoise prototype (see photograph above), so gave both models a spray of Army Painter Angel Green Spray.
The next stage will be painting the tracks.