All the buzz surrounding inter-genre building lately has reminded me of one of my favorite past projects. The following are images of my Toyota TSO50 half track. Built using the Tamiya kit of the Toyota, an Italeri Steyr RSO 1:35, and tracks meant for a WWII Sherman. The primary drive for the tank treads is accomplished using the Toyota drive train at the rear with aluminum tube sprocket mounts in the front. I basically began with the RSO driveline assembled and removed everything that wasn’t needed or was interfering with assembly to the car chassis. Same process on the body and chassis of the race car, Dremel until everything fits! LOL.  So there you go, I did build some armor once, sort of…

– Ross