the m60a2 patton first dragon right now afv-club. maybe third and last is tamiya from japan.

I have not handled the Dragon offering and so that is not a question I can answer with any certainty. My gut instinct is that the AFV Club offering is the better of the two as I have heard nothing positive about the DML offering.

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the m60a2 patton first dragon right now afv-club. maybe third and last is tamiya from japan.

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What are your thoughts behind your rankings,accuracy,details,ease of build ?

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the m60a2 patton first dragon right now afv-club. maybe third and last is tamiya from japan.

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What are your thoughts behind your rankings,accuracy,details,ease of build ?

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Probably no thought to how he ranked them. It seems like just one more of his gibberish posts. He left out the Academy one. Oh by the way, Tamiya already did one abut 30 years ago too.

Looking at the torsion bar mounts, and the escape hatch shape,I think this is the top of the list as far as accuracygoes.I ordered one through my LHS,and will add it to my side by side by side A2 build

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the m60a2 patton first dragon right now afv-club. maybe third and last is tamiya from japan.

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What are your thoughts behind your rankings,accuracy,details,ease of build ?

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the m60a2 patton first dragon right now afv-club. maybe third and last is tamiya from japan.

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What are your thoughts behind your rankings,accuracy,details,ease of build ?

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I noticed a problem with the markings. The "Bandits" had 3▵1▵32AR and not 3▵32▵. I could be wrong for the period prior to 1977. I was in the battalion from 1/1977 to 12/1979. (The A2's were replaced by A3's in 7/1979.)

Outside of that, the kit looks nice. It looks like AFV Club did their research. The top-loading air filters are correct.

Personally, I do not remember "Aces Wild" but a few tanks in Alpha and Bravo companies had names. None of Charlie's tanks had names (outside of the "This Piece of Junk" but we could not paint that on the bore evacuators).

Darren Baker shares with us a first look at the new M60A2 Patton Late Version Starship from AFV Club. This kit is due to be on general release at the end of June 2016.

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Every M60A2 was a piece of junk. It was an unbeatable weapons system when it work but there was always something wrong.

There were only a few good things about that tank. One, gunners were very good with the choke sight (because the laser range finder was broken more often than not). Two, you never had a hangfire with the conventional combustible cartridge. You just switched to "Missile" and "burned that sucker out". (Conventional mode caused a very short, high voltage charge to the electrical primer in the cartridge. Missile mode sent a long (i.e., more than 3 seconds) low voltage (I believe 24 volts) to the firing pin. That heated the firing pin which in turn ignited the cartridge. On the way! Unfortunately, firing a conventional round in Missile mode could throw the missile trackers out of alignment.

In 1977, C16 had its T-97 put on backwards. (It happens when you change track in the dark.)

In the middle of 1977, the battalion replaced the T-97 tracks with T-142. We were always losing track pads on the autobahn. That would go flying thirty feet in the air and then bounce three or four times. I am surprised that we never killed a German motorist.

In 1977 or 1978, the battalion itself repainted its tanks. It took about a month to do all 54 of them.

At least half of the tanks did not have bore-evacuators and those which did had theirs disabled. The CBSS was incompatible with the bore-evacuators.

In 1978, one of the battalion's tanks sheared its drive sprocket when it threw its left track at Hohenfels.

1977 was the last year that we used "real" HEAT rounds. Beautiful rooster tails at night when you hit a hard target. After that, the rounds used during gunnery had inert warheads.

In June or July 1978, Charlie Company's XO walked to the tent during gunnery and exclaimed that he could not wait to be in an M1 going down range and the hard target would be an M60A2. I had a bad time trying to keep them running through gunnery.

In 1978 or 1979 at Hohenfels, Gen. Nutting climbed on A Company's 1st Platoon Leader's tank in the middle of the night. The General saw a full trash bag on the back deck. He asked the 2LT, "When was this trash was made?" The lieutenant had completely forgotten about the trash bag. So, he thought the General was referring this particular M60A2. He answered, "I believe in March 1974, sir."

That should give you some ideas for some things that you could do with model.