Ram Kangaroo in Mill, The Netherlands

[Alex van de Wetering]

Hanno,

Indeed the story of the restoration is also very interesting. The thing I like about the Mill monument, compared to other tank mouments, is that the Kangaroo lookes like it could drive off at any moment. You don't see lights and a towing cable on most tank monuments.

A 1/35 scalemodel is still a problem. Resicast from Belgium has a nice Ram Kangaroo kit, but it's guite expensive.
I think I'll convert/scratch a Kangaroo using some Sherman parts.
The plan is to use Tamiya Lee or resin aftermarket running gear, Italeri chassis, Tamiya..Dragon or aftermarket resin 3 piece transmission. Offcourse the biggest challenge is offcourse the hull, which will probably be a base shape out of plastic-card and putty to cover it and create the right shape according to some key measurements and comparison to pictures of the Mill-Kangaroo. It will probably be applying putty, sanding, comparing to picture and than applying putty, sanding, comparing to picture etc. etc........until it looks right!

I have seen 1/76 drawings of a Ram Kangaroo once, maybe that could be a starting point.
The AFV-interiors-site has some info on the interior, which could probably be build using resin aftermarket Sherman interior-sets as a base and scratching the rest.



Alex van de Wetering