I'm building an M60A3 in 1/35th to my own specs. Ive located and installed an Urdan cupola but want to install an M2 .50 machine gun on it. Unfortunately, I have no mount for it. I'm considering buying an M1 Abrams model and simply transplanting the top center section of the turret onto my M60 as I'm not a talented scratch builder.
Short of the grafting operation, is there a mount kit out there that could be adapted to this?
Thanks in advance...
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Ma Deuce mount for Urdan cupola
schlabby
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Posted: Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 08:11 AM UTC
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Posted: Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 08:37 AM UTC
You could adapt any M113 50cal mount to the cupola. Thats what the the 2nd Inf. Div. did with their M48s. They used 113 mounts. So you need a scrap M113 or the Acadamy M48 comes with that option, which is one of several so you can build a different version and not waste the kit. It is pretty cheap from lucky model. You could get a kit for less then a resin add on.
Tom
Tom