Glad to be of assistance. As it turns out, I too bought the metal machine gun with LED. I have a Sherman that I was planning on swapping the plastic for metal. I started to do it last night but chickened out. I was told by manufacture it was superglued in, and I would need debonder (which I have). So after giving it a neat & tidy soak in debonder, it didn't budge. The plastic around the inner turret mounting hole for the machine gun started to get soft & melt of course. Not wanting to destroy the thing, I gave up. I would be very interested in your results and how you went about doing it (if your swapping parts that is).
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There are 2 version of the hull machine gun. A cast pewter one and a machined brass. Which one do you get?
The plastic gun on my Pershing is a single piece and glued to the hull with a 2.5mm tab. The slightest bending will break it off without hurting the tank hull wall. I drilled a much larger hole (5/16") to let the metal base through if it is the pewter one. The very thick rubbery dome which is the external piece CA glued to the wall outside. The wall has a ring to mark the dome location. This dome piece can hold the gun and allows it to be aimable. I worry about the gun metal piece falls out at the back so I glued it to the hull wall internally using hot glue.
On the Pershing, the wall behind the machine gun is a separate piece glued to the tank. I did not touch it besides drilling that big hole in the middle. The LED is not glued and can be easily moved. The wires are reconnected to the new LED.Comment
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