Are there any pics of M41s in desert scheme? If so, where did it serve? Just bought the Tamiya kit. thanks.

Mark---
I will go out on a limb here, but I'd be hard put to find one of her in desert camo. M-41s served with the American Army in Europe and the United States. They also were supplied to NATO, the Philippines and the Vietnamese among many others. It is a relatively easy tank to maintain, reliable and easy to operate. I would assume there are still many running around in Central America and the Pacific area. But, desert operations....outside of some ops in the Mojave I cannot bring a unit or a photo to mindthat display her in anything but forest green/OD.
DJ

According to one book I have, the armies where the M41 might possibly have appeared in a desert scheme were of Ethiopia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi-Arabia, Tunisia, and Turkey.

and, maybe Lebanon.

Not the only one, Chile deployed some of the M41´s in the Atacama Desert, near the border with Peru and Bolivia, during the 70´s and early 80´s.

Here some pics of a distinctive camo scheme in mid 70´s, desert yellow, green and brown. In other periods, were painted overall desert yellow and in a light tan. No pics of those now, gotta search through my archives






Hope it helps

Cheers

DJ, Gary, Rod: Thanks for the info. It's just that I love tanks in dessert yellow. haha...

white4: Converting the M41 to an A1 version would be too much work for an inexperienced modeler like me, but I might give it a try ... nice camo, BTW

Klaus: an inspiration for a simple dio. thanks. I'm guessing "silenciador" means muffler?

Yes, it belongs to the APU.

Not that difficult to make the conversion, I did it and a few other mods to build the chilean version from the Tamiya kit some time ago (tried to build an A3 BTW), you have to give it a try. Here´s a picture of it, not the best but I was the best I could do back then:








Cheers

I have a "Time" or "Newsweek" somewhere that illustrates a Sudanese M-41 on parade circa the very early '80s. No idea where it is, but this M-41 became the subject of one of my aborted modeling projects many years ago.

The finish was overall dark brown with an overspray of a sand/tan and green as I recall. There were also some tactical markings. I seem to remember an orange disc or similar device on the hull.

Hard to tell where this magazine is right now, but I do have it somewhere...

Klaus: nice model. doesn't seem like a difficult conversion too.

George: sounds interesting. keep me posted if the magazine turns up. thanks

Whew, that's a tough one... I know I have it somewhere, but where??? After a few moves, stuff such as that tends to go missing. I definitely know it's in a box somewhere in the garage...

As I recall the commander is in green fatigues with the Soviet-style headgear.

The photo was one of two that illustrated an article concerning nations receiving arms from both the USSR and the USA.

The other accompanying photo was of a Chinese Type 62 Light Tank which was incorrectly captioned as a T-54 or T-55. This tank had an identical color scheme.