a question came up from another member on my Dragon M16 build, and it's a big one..
The Dragon ammo mags, the big "tombstone" 200 rd. boxes, do not fit quite right in the rear fighting compartment corners. The top edges seem to peek up over the sides with the armor flaps folded down. I don't have any photos to tell if this is correct, and another builder here has been cutting them at the bottoms..which isn't good, the Dragon mags are correct for size..anyone got a pic of an M16 AA 'track showing if the stowed mags are totally concealed or visible?
a question came up from another member on my Dragon M16 build, and it's a big one..
The Dragon ammo mags, the big "tombstone" 200 rd. boxes, do not fit quite right in the rear fighting compartment corners. The top edges seem to peek up over the sides with the armor flaps folded down. I don't have any photos to tell if this is correct, and another builder here has been cutting them at the bottoms..which isn't good, the Dragon mags are correct for size..anyone got a pic of an M16 AA 'track showing if the stowed mags are totally concealed or visible?
ok...we're in trouble.
The tombstone mags in the kit are the correct height. Verified by owners of said mags. Which MEANS..the body of the halftrack is short by a scale inch or two. 1/35 ammo mag measures .615 and space it's supposed to fit in? .590
Oh my....major mods.
Glad I didn't get too far into the rear compartment build!
Or just shave off 0.025 of the bottom of the cans 
... That's the simplest solution to the problem at hand. I came up with the same solution myself, but beat me to it, so ALL CREDIT for that solution goes to him!!! Why stick your head in a beehive by screwing around with a rear body if you don't need to? The simple shaving of the bottoms of the ammo boxes is exactly what I'm going to do when I finally get around to building my M16... 
On my 3 workbenches at present: A plastic and brass Kit-bash/Scratch-build of an HO scale New York, Ontario & Western Rwy W-2 Class 2-8-0 Camelback Freight-type Steam Locomotive. A 1/48 TAMIYA P-51D Mustang of the 4th Fighter Group in "flying mode", decorated in overall Silver Dope with the late 1944/45-style Red Nose treatment. I used an EDUARD "ZOOM" Pre-Painted PE set for the cockpit, and I modified and painted an old MONOGRAM P-51D Pilot to fly the thing... I have a nearly completed M4A1 75mm (Dry) VVSS with T48 Tracks and Hedgerow Device, as seen in France, late June/early July, 1944. I used the excellent FORMATIONS' Late Re-man reinforced Hull and Low Bustle Turret Conversions. The model is in non-combat mode, as if driving through a liberated French town, with 3 crew- Commander, Driver and Assistant Driver. Also in process is my TAMIYA "Dragon Wagon" Tank Transport Vehicle, with a TASCA "Jumbo" riding the Trailer. Another project is my 1/24 Kit-bash/Scratch-build 1950's East Coast-style 1930 Ford Model A Coupe, shot in a deep Royal Metallic Purple,(we have channeled Coupe bodies on the East Coast; West Coast Coupe bodies are chopped) with a Red fully wired, belted and plumbed Ford V-8 Flat Head, 2 Stromberg carburetors, 3-inch drop on the front axle, with a 4-inch kick-up on the sectioned '32 Ford Frame, "Full" MOON Wheel covers with "skinny" 1950's-style Wide Whitewall "Big & Little" Bias-Ply Tires, Black & White custom "Diamond Button Tuft" interior. There's lot's of Resin and PE details in this build... I've got a smattering of 1/35 GIs in-process as well; Doggies, Tankers, and Maintenance Men... I used to build and sell on a special-order basis- now I build strictly for my own pleasure... I see some BEAUTIFUL builds on this site; you guys keep up the GREAT work... 
BTW..many M16 AA tracks saw more action delivering ground fire, as they were spectacular in defending tanks from those pesky Germans with panzerfaust and panzershrek, and in assaulting hard positions like dug in MGs and anti tank guns and gun bunkers.
Quoted TextBTW..many M16 AA tracks saw more action delivering ground fire, as they were spectacular in defending tanks from those pesky Germans with panzerfaust and panzershrek, and in assaulting hard positions like dug in MGs and anti tank guns and gun bunkers.
I always thought a great dio would be an M-16 backing towards a fortified house with supporting infantry during Patton's swing north during the Ardennes offensive . THe idea came from a line in the epic Patton movie something like "cannibalize your AA units, what we need now is rifleman...." those units would have pretty good "heavy weapons squads, right.
also what about the GMC with the 40mm bofors (an early duster, if you will)
now for a title, what's the German word for nutcracker?????
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