Type 95 Ha-Go light tank: assembly!

The Light Sensha Platoon box contains five Type 95 Ha-Go light tanks. Each tank is made of the following parts: hull and turret in plastic and the two tracks, two machine guns, the main gun and the turret hatch in metal.

Type 95 tank parts.

First step is to clean the flesh of the pieces using a modeling knife. Then it is ready to start gluing. Start by gluing the tracks to the hull. 

Tracks glued to the hull.

Then glue one machine gun on the hull.

Hull machine gun in place.

Moving to the turret, glue the other machine gun in the rear position. 

Turret machine gun.

Next glue the main gun (Type 94 37mm) to the turret. 

Main gun glued to the turret.

Finally, add the closed hatch to the turret.

Turret completed.

The tank with closed hatch is ready.

Type 95 tank assembled.

If you want to add a tank commander, glue the open hatch to the turret. Then glue the commander to the hatch. You may need to trim the commander's base a little in order to fit it in the hatch.

Type 95 with sword commander!

Type 95 platoon looking great!

Finally, I decided to add some sandbags to the tanks, to boost the crew's morale and to harmonize the tanks with the rest of my army (and because they look so cool!!). Read how to make the sandbags here.

Sandbags added.

It is a good idea to add rare-earth magnets to the hull and turret, so you can get moving turrets. Otherwise you can glue the turret to the hull.

Banzai!