I added some scratchbuilt details like Coca Cola can, water bottle
a Kuwaiti McDonalds paperbag with a small bag with breadsticks and
a FM radio and a whole bunch of other stowage...

Hope you like it...

Best regards

Sven-Åke

You need to show a couple of close-up shots from the back to show off the details. But it sure looks great. Like I said before... Superman vision.

Thanks Hisham!!!

Glad you like it

Sven-Åke

Nicely done! Always amazed at how the Braille scale models come out. Looks awesome!
Cheers!

Tim

I really love this weathering and I see you have the ear pieces black now. I wouldn't even mention this, except you can still do it, the Marine M60A1's had 2 antennas. You are missing the reciever antenna next to the loaders hatch.

This is the best pic I could find to show you the antenna next to the loaders hatch. Ignore the third one by the bussle rack, it was not on Marine M60A1's, and to tell you the truth I'm not sure what it is.
I really think you have done a great job. I guess I'm too picky about the M60A1 since it was the only tank I served on, and know.
Don

Thank You Very Much Tim!!!

The braille kits of today are actually very very good so it's not too hard
to make them look decent.

Best regards

Sven-Åke

Thanks a million Don!!!

I will fix that at once since I see it this way, more antennas equals cooler vehicles

Any clue how long it should be?

Best regards

Sven-Åke

FEATURES OF THE AS-1729/VRC
Wide coverage: Operates over 30 to 76 MHz range in 10 band segments
Automatic Tuning: Any one of 10 segments automatically selected by a solenoid-driven switch in the matching unit; solenoid is controlled from receiver-transmitter RT-246/VRC or RT-524/VRC, or from amplifier power supply OA-3633/GRC.
Manual Override: Band segments can be manually selected on the antenna base assembly.
Reliable: Operates under extreme environmental conditions; meets U.S. military specifications; assures trouble-free communication under severe combat conditions; flexible base spring permits bending and prevents breakage (tie-down kit allows antenna to be bent and tied to vehicle).
SPECIFICATIONS Frequency Range: 30-76 MHz. Band
Segments: 10.
Tuning: Automatic & manual.
Solenoid Operating Voltage: 24 Vdc nominal.
Input Impedance: 50 ohms. VSWR: 3 : 1 maximum.
Power Handling: 70 W maximum.
Operating Temperature Range: -40°C to +65°C, -40°F to +150°F.
Overall Length: 10-1/2 feet (3-1/4 meters).
Components: Antenna Element AT-1095/VRC (upper section). Antenna Element AS-1730/VRC (lower section). Matching Unit-Base. MX-6707/VRC.
Weight: 8-3/4 lbs (4 kg).
We had the AN/VRC-12 consisting of the RT-246 transmitter and two R-442 recievers. I didn't remember so I had to look it up. 10.5 ft.= 126 in, converted to 1/72= 1.75 in long for antennas.
Don

Wow !!! Thanks Don!!!

I'll see if I can do that antenna tomorrow and I'll check the length of
the one already mounted also.

Best regards

Sven-Åke

One quick tought before you do anything, I can't remember if Marines changed to SINGARS radios before Desert Storm. If they did, they would have had the AN/VRC-89 with the AS-3900A/VRC antennas. These were 2.75 meters = 1.5 in in 1/72 scale.
Vehicular long-range/short-range radio AN/VRC-89. The AN/VRC-89 (Figure 3-6) is built from the AN/VRC-87 by adding another RT and a power amplifier. The AN/VRC-89 replaces the AN/VRC-12 and AN/VRC-47 which have a single RT and an auxiliary receiver. The additional RT replaces the auxiliary receiver in the previous versions. The RT provides increased capabilities over a receiver alone.


Give me some time to find out wich one was used in Desert Storm.
Don

I've emailed a couple of my Tanker buddies that were in M60A1's at that time. Will give you the straight dope on weather to go with 1.75" for AN/VRC-12 or 1.5" for AN/VRC-89 when they reply. Unless someone else can tell us faster.
Don

Sure Don, it's way past my bedtime anyway so I'm in no rush

Thanks for all your help !!!

Sven-Åke

With some help I found this:
This is an excerpt from:

Appendix A
The State of Fleet Marine Force
Communications
Summer 1990
“AN/VRC-12 family of radio equipment, it encompassed the mobile high-powered
VHF radios found on tanks, AAVs, and communication vehicles. These were
fully compatible with the PRC-77, which was the basic infantry battalion manportable
radio known to virtually all division Marines of the 1970s and 1980s.
This generation of radios was programmed to be replaced by the SINCGARS
family of VHF frequency-hopping radios with embedded cryptographic circuitry.
Although this was to start in the mid-1980s, a series of program setbacks repeatedly
delayed this exchange so that by August of 1990 only one FMF unit—the 1st
Light Armored Infantry (LAI) Battalion—was equipped with a version of this
radio. Other LAI units operated the Bancroft KY-67 radio, which was non-frequency
hopping but contained embedded VINSON cryptographic circuitry used
by other units, while the rest of the FMF continued to use the VRC-12 radio
equipment.”

So use the 1.75" antenna.
Don
P.S.- Sorry for the confusion, but now you see what happens when I second guess myself.

Thanks very much Don for your help!!!

I really appreciate the time and effort you put in to help me with this!

Best regards

Sven-Åke

It looks as good as any 1/35 M60. Even the figures are amazing. And you keep improving it!

More and more people say they do not see the difference in detail anymore, between braille and 1/35. That is good news, and hopefully many 1/35 builders start their first 1/72 project now too. I was one of them and this scale gives as many satisfaction for sure !
It was one of your topics that inspired me to make the jump. This is another fantastic job you've done ! Congrats man ! G.

Thank You Very Much Matthew!!

I think this is the first model that I have worked really hard on the details
and I'm glad to hear that you compare it to a 1/35 scale build

Best regards

Sven-Åke

Thanks Guy!!!

Feels really good to know that I have inspired someone to try this scale

Keep 'em coming!

Best regards

Sven-Åke

Sven-Åke

Your builds are the best advertisement for the subject kit.

So much so, this is the THIRD kit I have purchased solely based on your builds.

So my wallet hates you but I am very pleased with my M-60 purchase

cheers

Mike

Full camo figures, add on armor, and fargin coke cans in braile scale! Outstanding!

I was poking at the LHS and looked at a few built 1/72 just to see the size, I don't know how you guys do it, I build 1/350 ships, but not shaded with weathering...

Thanks Mike !!!

I'm really glad that you hate me for that reason

The kit is really great and you should finish up with a very
pleasing model. Just don't try the coke can thing... It almost
drove me crazy and blind

Best regards

Sven-Åke

Thank You Very Much !!!

I was attending a big competition last weekend and they had a lot
of ships there and while looking at one of the ships (1/700 scale)
someone next to me said "wow look at those figures"... What figures???
I had to lean over the table and squint to see and yes, the ship was
actually full of little 1/700 scale figures made from photoetch and
they were painted too so big respect to all you shipbuilders out there!!!

It makes my attempts in 1/72 scale seem somehow childish compared
to those microscopic figures.

I'm however really glad that you like my little tank !!!

Best regards!!!

Sven-Åke

No way, that can not be 1/72.... (JimS, we still need that 'jaw on the floor' smiley..)

Outstanding work Sven-Åke, I hope you will submit a lot of pictures for an 'On Display' feature

Cheers
Henk

Sven
If I was Dragon's and other 1/72 scale manufactures manager , I would pay you to build these 1/72 scale models.
The best marketing ever.
Why don't you ask them to do so?
Fun, pleasure and business, too.
Afterwards, isn't this the "real" world today?
petros

Very nice. I like the Mc Donalds bag and the can of coke. The detail in 1/72 is amazing!

Thanks for sharing.