CHEAP VBCW TANKS (6) - SP ARTILLERY

The sixth in our occasional series of how to create large VBCW armoured forces for only a few pounds. Here is a cheapy Chinese pre-moulded plastic tank that pops up on Ebay from time to time: 

Far too modern looking, of course, for the VBCW - on the other hand, there's no bothering with painfully cutting out from sprues, assembling and gluing lots of tiny plastic parts before one gets to something vaguely resembling an armoured vehicle. Here there are only two parts - the turret and the chassis. And there's the intriguing element of pre-moulded "bullets" at the rear end of the vehicle, which obviously suggested a conversion to some form of SP Artillery.

So - remove the turret (with fingers!). Then find some kind of (preferably cheepy plastic, preferably non scale) artillery that "looks right" sitting on top of the now denuded hull, cutting away any gun parts (such as wheels and trail) to fit. Paint, add crew, et voila:

BUF "Bison" SP Artillery. Non scale plastic 25pdrs converted to fit. Crew by Empress, GW etc.
(anything in a sidecap, really). The "bullets" at the rear of the chassis are now
"readily available artillery shells" for quick firing operations.

For more on the role of BUF "Bisons" in the Hereford VBCW, together with the full tale of the theft of the design  its subsequent adoption by the Wehrmacht, see HERE.