For an assault gun, the A39 Tortoise had a fair amount of defensive armament including a small, rotating secondary machine gun turret mounted on the roof of its casemate superstructure, alongside a third machine gun mounted in the front hull plate. The crew of seven included two machine gunners to operate them. Unusual but the turret does make a nice model in its own right! There are about 30 parts to make this!
The turret also features a 6-barrel smoke discharger cluster (or smoke bomb launcher bank) directly attached to its side. Alongside this smoke grenade unit, the secondary turret houses twin 7.92mm BESA machine guns. Because this small turret is capable of 360-degree rotation, the attached smoke discharger unit could pop smoke screen cover in any direction the machine gunner or commander faced, adding vital tactical flexibility to an otherwise slow, 78-ton vehicle!
It should look good once added to the main part of the body!
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