Does anyone know of a M-728 CEV conversion kit or does anyone know if the AEF Designs conversion kit is a good one. Trying to model a CEV for my father who was combat engineers in the Army

Acad do the M9(?) dozerblade,
Verlinden a more complete version, but Gino, will fill you in...

Saw an an ad within the year for a resin conversion, but I can't remember either....

Hi Guys,


Be aware, the quality of the AEFdesigns resin sets is off and on !!!!!
Bought some a couple of years ago, parts were broken or warped !

Good Luck !!!!

Yup, the AEF Design one, as with most of their stuff, sucks and blows.

In the March '95 issue of FineScale Modeler magazine, there are scale plans and drawings on how to make one. Its still available for backorder at FSM too.





I did mine in about '98 using them and it came out great. At the time, I used a Tamiya M60A3 kit and Verlinden's M9 dozer blade set, and lots of styrene tubing, rod, and sheet.

Now that the Academy blade tank is out, it shouldn't be too difficult.

Mine can be seen in the gallery when it comes back up.

If needed, I can get detail photos from the CEV we have on display in front of our SCNG Headquarters building.

Just let me know...

Gary,
For 90% of the folks out there, the simple addition of the M9 blade will work for the beginnings of a CEV. You, being the sarcastic, masochistic, attention to detail driven person that you are, would have to pipe the inside of the hull for the hydraulics and expect the blade to raise & lower for it to be called a CEV. The M9 blade grafted to the 60 hull route might be OK for Rifle0311... Personally me thinks that tha th eturret is where the majority of the work will be done.

Just making an observation verses a nomination

John

Hi!
The M-728 always is for quite a long time of great interest for me. Following the discussions about AEFs quality, I never bought that kit, but there was another resin converson in the shelves at least 10 years ago. It was from a french business called H&K and was to convert Tamiyas M60 MBT. I bought it, but for several reasons, I never built it, and waited for the plastic kit to come.

My question is, did anyone of you out there build up that conversion, and is it suitable? From the quality of the castings, it does not look too bad.

Thanks for your comments!

Andreas

GO,
I don't need any steenkin' Toadman, I got my own pics, in sand paint with a bit more green & black mold. His pictures are kinda nice, though. And, BTW, it is spelled "flattery" not "flatery". You know what i mean...

Your humble servant

Tankrider

Build it & they will come ( )
I have collected all the resin to build several Churchill AVRE's & NOW AFV release it in plastic!

Build it! Build it!

checkout this link as well http://armorama.com/forums/134721&page=1

I've got that resin conversion set and it is really bad. There ae some usable pieces, but the problem is, are they worth the cost of the set . I got mine for free, I'dont know if it is still available but if you hae to pay more that $20 for it, STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!!

If you look close at pictures of the M728, you'll see some big differences from an M60 with the M9 blade kit on it. You'll have to modify the Academy blade kit . It is a good start and the turret conversion is not that tough, just some scratch-building and some round tubbing and brackets. The M728 hull was built at the factory as such and not converted from an M60. The mounting brackets are cast into the lower hull and hydraulic pipes are run through the front lower plate with armored covers. That's why you don't see the lines running under the hull back to the oil tank on the left rear fender like the M60 has. I've used the early AEF kit, and as others have said, the quality is poor, unless they have made changes to it lately. The best part of the kit is the turret. They used a modified Tamiya M60A3 turret for the master.

Jerry