Kitbashing and What-Ifs...

Anyone ever wonder how a Sherman T23 turret would look on a T-34 chassis? Say the Soviets and Brits and Americans cooperated with all their projects. Imagine the combinations.
Ever build your favorite fighter plane and accuracy be-damned, just paint it and decal it as if it had been YOUR personal mount? (Gotta make-up a clever name like "Short-fuse Sally" or something...)
Every once in awhile, I have these urges to do something whimsical, throw all those research details aside and just go freakin' wild.

Am I the only one tortured so?

Tim

 

I have done the personalized planes before.

 

You're not alone: we're about to start a wargames campaign at my local club, starting in 1945 and (with luck and perseverance) working up to present day.
Everyone is in charge of their own country and kit-bashed home designs are encouraged.
I'll be using Cromwell chassis, with sloped frontal armour (no hull mg) and a late-model Sherman turret mounting a 3.7 in gun.
Other guys have SU-203 (I don't want to face that in a town), etc etc.
HAT/ Armourfast kits are a godsend for this sort of thing - cheap enough to chop up and "accurate" enough to look like what they're supposed to.