This one is for James, awhile back you posted that you got a M8 and I said I was working on one with Interior and Engine Comp.
Well, here's the photo's.
Both Interior and Engine are Verlinden kits.

Feedback welcome. Thx.

hiya brian i must say it looks smashing!

i love the engine im going to order one soon for mine =]

what was it like and was the fit okay?

have you got any more photo's?

Hey James,
Thanks for the kind words. I still think it could use some work.
I'll have to take some more for you.
As far as fit goes, you'll have to do some cutting near the fuel tank. The instuction for the install were confusing at first, but after a few dry fits things fell into place. One thing that you should do before install is put the fan belts on!! (Something I forgot to do )
Overall it was a good first try of an after market kit.

Are you going to try the interior??

I'll post the photo's soon.

This is looking great! Keep it up.

Your vise grip looks very useful for fine adjustments

Scott

Scott,
Thanks.
The vise is for when the project goes South and needs a major overhaul.

I use the vise as an extra set of hands when I make my tow cables from scratch.

ive started mine =] ive done little prodgress though other projects are holding me up
its the blue thing in the interior suppose to taken out ?

if your doing an overhaul the turret ring should be white, and the whole interior is white besides the od floor

il post some pics when ive done some more progres =]

ive almost finihsed my m20 though il take some pictuers =]

So far so good. Are you going to have the engine bay open? If so are you going to put a battery on the shelf?
Not sure if the dials on the radio should be white. Are you just doing a base coat of white, then masking it off to get the number underneth white and top coat of green?

Lookin' good overall, keep it up.

the radio dial should be white =]
the floor of the interior is OD but the walls are white =]

Hey Guys,
Again, thanks for the kind words. This has been an off/on project for the last 3+ yrs. (Mainly off.)

James,
The blue is painter tapes that I put down when I painted the outter shell. The floor on the M8 was white, and the turret ring was the OD on the turret gear. The M20 was open topped and was painted different. It was all OD in the fighting comp. and white in the driver's area.

Scott,
In my research, the radio dials are going to be painted black with white outlines. I just did that to try to bring out some of the detail in the radio. I'm going to repaint the storage area on the side by the engine to match outside. As far as the battery goes, it will be in the tray. I'm still working on the wiring details.
I still think I've got weathering and more detailing to do.

I'm not sure what dio my going to put it in, I'm looking into the use of the M8 in the PTO area.

So far I've found it was limited in service due do the jungle areas, it was more suited for the ETO and MTO areas.

Anyways, Happy New Year to All and to the Servicemen and Women who can not join us this holiday season. More post to come.

brian the floor of the m8 was OD and the turrent ring was white ive got ospreys m8 book in front of me lol

You are right the M8 was limited in the PTO, but it did server in the Philippines.

The dial technique you're using is what I thought you would do.

James, Here's a ref. photos for our build. Not all ref. books are created =.



The floor has carpet or a blanket covering it.

brian dude, im not on about the m20 im on about the m8's interior

lol!

happy new year btw =]

James,
Sorry, my bad. Didn't mean to make waves. I had M8 photos too, but they took up too much space, had to delete from last post. Will try again tomorrow.

Happy New Year to you and yours.

waves its cool budy totally forogten about all the best bud i will upload some photos in a few days =]

James,

I take it you got the interior already and are in the process of install??
Can't remember if your doing the engine also??
Watch the placement of the ammo rack that is on the floor, it gets tight with the shell rejection bag for the 37mm gun. It interfears with the turrent movement.

Looking forward to seeing the photos.

brain i havnt really touched my m8 ive done loads of my m20
its almost finished lol

m8 floor ammo rack?
i havnt seen that in their yet lol ive only started the running gear and the external bits

but thanks for the warning =]

James,

The Tamiya kit won't have it, the Verlinden interior kit will have it.
I'll send photos.
First photo: Note the placement of the ammo rack on floor. (Center Diagram.)




I've got more if you need them.

oo lol i havnt got the vp interior

i dunno if im gona use it its a thought

Brian,

Your M8 looks really good.

James,

I'm working on the Tamiya M20, I've seen the pics posted above where the M20 interior looks like its painted all white?? From everything I have learnt previously, anything that would be visible from the air would be in Olive Drab?? So I'm painting the front drivers area and radio storage area white and the rest of the interior olive drab
Looking to seeing your M20 pictures.
Darryl

darrly most of the m20 interior was od besides the drivers compartment was all white
and the floor was still OD

i am uploading photos of my m20 aswe speak lol

James,

I agree and will painting mine in that manner. In the Squadron /signal #37 US Armoured Cars in action, pages 14 and 15 show an M20 with a completely white interior

Here is a link to the SCR-508 radio supplied with the kit. It is a nice picture, with the main body in olive drab, flat black panels, white dial, green indicator light, and steel coloured connections.
http://www.syzen.com/milradio/img2000/dsc00008.jpg

On another website the radio body was all flat black with the rest in the colours described above.

Darryl

okay lol ive seen it OD but i wont argue with you






the batteries on my camera died and photo buckets playing up

James,

Lol, I meant that I will be painting mine like yours, white drivers area, the rest of the interior OD, but like everything else, there are exceptions to way the regulations said it was supposed to be done The one in the squadron book might be a pre-production model or maybe one owned by a collector, so who knows

Darryl

yeah indeed im sure thats the way the prototypes were painted