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I’m not an expert on the gun, but I don’t recall offhand any with a muzzle brake in North Africa, meaning they must be Mk. II guns. You can convert the Tamiya gun easily enough too by reducing the barrel length, of course. About 11 mm back from the ring by which the muzzle brake attaches to the barrel should do it. Alternatively, the barrel length was apparently 254 cm on the real L/43 gun (which is closer to L/44, but hey …) so you could measure 254 ÷ 35 = 72.5 mm from the front face of the breech block and cut the barrel there. This is probably better than reducing the gun from the muzzle end, because who says the kit’s barrel length is accurate?
I mainly mentioned the (old) Italeri gun because that’s better detailed than the Tamiya one, but if you want to go with the latter — why not?
I mainly mentioned the (old) Italeri gun because that’s better detailed than the Tamiya one, but if you want to go with the latter — why not?