Information on Blast doors for M1A1HA

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Hello everyone again, it’s me with another question.

I used the Tarra Cotta on my M1A1HA for the Anti Skid, and the Mr Surfaces stuff, hand down, I would go with the Tarra Cotta all times, but i Have a question now. Would the blast doors on the turret have anti Skid on it, and if it dose, would I just put the hands and the presur vals on it and mask it of and put the anti skid on it??, or would I just spray the studd on, and then put the handles and the other stuff on it?? How did you do it HeavyArty?? when you did yours? Well any advice from anyone would help me out a great deal on this project. and thanks for those parts, they will have to work for right now, beacuse as far a I know, no one make it, unless you scrach build it, and that’s something I can’t do yet, sinces I don’t know how to do it any well.

It’s true what they say, about how it can take weeks to months to get thing right the way would like it to be. Still can’t think of any ways to put this bad boy into a diorama at this time, has someone thought of any other good idas at this time. the ones that people have sent me are good, but i still looking for somthing differant. I don’t know, I’m just a begginers starting to get more into his hobbie. Sorry to ramble on, well, have a great week everyone, and God Bless Ya’ll

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Blast panels may or may not have anti-slip on them. I have seen them both ways. If you want to add it, do it just like you did the rest of the turret. Tape off the bolts around the perimeter and the lift rings. Spray it with the texture of choice, then add the disks (or not, some newer M1A2s come without them). By the way, they are not vents, they are left over from a ammo reload system that was supposed to take out the whole rack of ammo, including the cover and replace it with another, full rack. The system didn’t work well and was scrapped early on, but the basic parts were left on most tanks.

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Thanks, I’ll try that and see if it works for not