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Andy Cooper
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
FSM author and fan of Hobart’s Funnies — special-purpose engineering vehicles built on tanks — converted AFV Club’s 1/35 scale Churchill Mk.III AVRE to a Bobbin Mk.II Type C with a Resicast Mk.IV turret and deep-wading trunk. The Bobbin carrier frame was scratchbuilt from styrene rod and profiles, and the carpet drum was fabricated from an old plastic cable drum insert with styrene sheet ends cut with a compass cutter. The carpet is thin packaging foam that new electronic equipment, such as DVD players, is often wrapped in. He finished the model as a near new vehicle about to be loaded aboard a ship bound for Normandy with Tamiya acrylics and artist-oil washes.