Stayed home today too hot to go hunting , so I got a little bit of work done on my M1s . After getting the decals on the other night I started to get the gear together . I tried to give each tank its own "personality" by placing some of the gear out of place from the other tank . I am going to add more gear when I get it from Great Models ( the new Verlindin set ) .

over view of the tanks


The over watch tank

Rear bustle rack of over watch tank

right hand view of over watch tank . I chose the loaded smoke launchers from Legands M1 set for this tank .

The name of the overwatch tank

Front view of the plow tank the ground work still has a way to go so I will dig the plow in later

Over view of the plow tanks bustle rack
There are more pics of these tanks in my MSN albumhttp://groups.msn.com/armorama/turrettoad13sphotoalbum.msnw?Page=1

Lord toady,

Very nice, dude.

Especially like the green patch thingy, what's that for? #:-)

Toady,
The M1s look very very good, One thing... have you finished the road yet? if you have i think it may need a bit more weathering dunno maybe maybe not.

Yes indeedee! Very nice job there.

Little more mud on the tanks IMHO

It was hot in the South today!
Looking good, I guess you'll have to match your ground color to the "weathering" of the plow, and get it good and dirty,
I like the scratches on the turret.

Very nice pair of tanks there

Really nice Toad. Great attention to detail ..... I like the little details that you have added yourself ... the skull and crossbones flag, the stowage, etc. The wear and tear greay areas look neat ..... have you sprayed or drybrushed this on? I read an article by MIG and he sprayed grey areas and blended it in as part of his weathering ... very effective! Was there a "damage Inc" tank in reality? Cool ... I can imagine chargin through the desert with that tune blasting!



I think its a it of post-it note hiding something underneath!

Hiya Toadster,
I am impressed by the speed of your outputs! A real nice dio you're planning there. I like the color differnces, the green plow and the smear on that tank ... very interesting!
How about replacing the "blobs" on the first side skirt with something hollow? Brass tubing would do. I personally like to replace the front fender spring rods with brass wire. Errr ... or have you done this already ... seems to be, o.k. forget that!
This is gonna be a very impressing dio indeed
Andreas

WEll nice color on the upper one! Turrettoad.
What color is it?
Nice effect between them one with blade and one without!
Is this for group Build?

well done! #:-)

Hot?
We have snow on the ground!

Nice job on the tanks, what Is under the green tape thingy?

Hey Toad-
Definately a pair of excellent M1s. Were you planning on adding any figures? A few troops riding shotgun or at least a tank commander would add a human element into the mix. Other than that, very nice.
Kyle

OBTW : the plow tank is the Trumpter USMC M1A1HA w twmp . The over watch tank "Damage Inc." is the DML /Dragon M1A1-HA with crew .I'll just answer all the questions in a group .The IFF pannels are scratch built from Evergreen plastic strips . The plow tank is painted wtih MM Armor sand , Damage Inc. is MM U S Army/ USMC gulf armor sand . Both were washed with a thined out black water based paint then the base paint dry brushed over to sub-due the wash . The post -it is covering a PG-13 decal that came with the DML tank . There's a pic of it in the MSN album . Since the tanks are going into a suspected mine field the crews are buttoned up both of the TC hatches are in the open protected position so I'm gonna have the Tcs peeking out . This is not for the group build . Thanks for pointing out the blobs on the skirts will fix .

Toadster:

Pretty cool as usual, -- there's no doubt you are definitely one of the resident "Abrams god's" around here. The build looks very solid on both units.

This little scene should look pretty authentic when the differing elevations are feathered together giving the eye two levels of scenery to view as the one tank supports the other. Good concept here, and as usual your builds are well done.

Keep us posted.

Steve

Nice dio plan!
I like the twin abrams! what do you think to add almost one crew member?
well done!
cheers