ICM FCM 36

[Philipp Gross]

I've donated to the German branch of the UNHCR, which currently put most of their effort into supporting the Ukrainian refugees in Central and Western Europe:


My build is ICM's new FCM 36 light tank, which first came out in 2020:


The FCM was a French light tank of which 100 were built in 1938-39. It had some advanced features like welded, sloped armour and a diesel engine, but nonetheless was a fairly archaic design with only a 2-man crew and the same short, weak 37mm gun as the Renault FT as main armament.



The kit is nicely done and not overly complicated, and for once I will stick with an OOTB built. No references, just glue. Seriously.

That being said, I will use some figures from ICM's "official" crew set for this tank:


Philipp

[Shawn Ramsey]

I like the looks of those figures Philipp. How do they look?

Shawn

[Steve Hutchinson]

I like the looks of those figures Philipp. How do they look?
Shawn

Me too, figures of children are few and far between and often look quite "dwarfish" with quite adult looking heads/faces.

Even Hornet only do young teen heads nothing younger/smaller.

Steve H

[Philipp Gross]

Hi all,

quick progress update - you can put this thing together in a weekend, which I did, minus the turret:



I imagined it to be slightly larger...it's just a little bigger than the Renault FT.

To fill the gaping void behind the hatch I added a leftover French tanker from Tamiya's Char B1.


And finally, the kid.... I think ICM did a good job here, the proportions are properly done...unlike that imp from Master Box which haunts my Firefly



Philipp

[Bryan Krueger]

Have you made any progress on this?

I'm curious how they expect you to assemble the chain links?

[Philipp Gross]

Hi Bryan,

thanks for reminding me of this build....I had kinda forgotten about it

Since the last update I actually finished the turret and threw on some primer:


As for the chain, I managed to assemble one. You're supposed to cut open every other link on one end, bend it slightly open, slide in the next two links, and then glue the link shut, preferrably without glueing the links permanently to each other. Somehow it worked, but fitting it to the tow points was even worse So far I only assembled one chain, which is plenty enough for me

Philipp

[Shawn Ramsey]

I would forget about it too, since you have so many different projects going at once. Luckily for me I can do that.

Shawn