Dear friends,

Stumbled upon this revell vintage kit selling for SGD 50 incl. Airmail.

how is it? Fitting and all? Reviews?

Any chance of me converting to 1/35?

Kiong

Kiong,

I think most of your questions can be answered once you review the Revell M-48 AVLB Instructions. (the file is over 16 MB!)

I have been looking for this kit myself, but from what I've seen of it, it's older and more toylike. It's 1/40 scale, and to me the bridge is "shortened" or missing at least two bays to make it smaller. Either way, I don't believe you would want to convert it to 1/35. The bridge itself would look too small.

I think you would get a much more accurate AVLB if you scratch built the bridge components and added them to a M-48 hull. i'm planning to do this in 1/72 scale with a Revell 1/72 M60 hull.

Good Luck!

Hi!
It is a prototype only. I built the kit about nearly 35 years ago. Ok it was not that bad, but...that´s a long time ago.

I found a building blog that might be of interest for you:

https://hfmodeling.kitmaker.net/forums/171502&page=1

and follow another link to further pictures.

You will not get it reworked to an actual vehicle without a lot of scratch building and 1/40 is far away from 1/35 though.

Hope that helps

Andreas

Thanks guys, think I better give that vintage am miss...

I blogged this kit for the Engineering Campaign
M48-AVLB

Fun build but this is 50+ years old, and is readily available in various boxings so wouldn't pay more than UKP£20.00 / USD$30.00

I did consider grafting the parts on to the Tamiya M48, but it would be easier scratching to the correct scale, if there were any good and accurate drawings (anybody?)

Me too. I built it some 35 years ago (1979). It is still we me, sitting next to my M728 CEV. I am going to build more of those 1/35 scale, mainly the Leo 2 A7 PSO with dozer and RWS. It time permits, I will go on the the Leo 2 VLB too. Cheers.