British Crusader Tank

Some building details:

Chassis:

My goal was to build the tank as narrow a possible, so the plates for the side mudgards had to be placed as close to the track links a possible.
This could not be achieved by a distance intervall of 1 stud or even 1/2 stud, so I had to mount the side mudguards ... well ... "sideways", so that I could use a single plate height as a distance intervall.







Side skirts:

Also I didn't want the side mudguards to be 2 plates wider than the track gauge on each side, just 1 plate, ...



... and this required some rather unusual method to attach the 2x2 wing plate at the front to the rest of the side mudguards.
Using a 1x2 plate would have blocked the track links, so I had to use a 1x1 plate with clip, and put that little stud pin inside the clip. This way the 2 stud connection didn't have an edged ... err .. "edge" at one side anymore, thus not blocking the tracks.
The whole construction was rigid enough to hold on its own, but after placing a sticker on it, it became even more rigid.





Hull:







Turret:

For the main turret I tried several prototypes, which were either too long or too wide, until I finally ended up with what I was looking for, and I even managed to include a 2-piece hatch to fit a minifig in!















Front turret and driver's visor hatch:







I used some custom made stickers printed on transparent adhesive foil, e.g. for the driver's visor hatch.



Front:







Back: