Hi folks, here's another recently finished build, work on it ended a few days ago.

Kit is from Revell's rebox of Esci M60A3TTS, released in early 2000's, was sitting on my stash and the release of the new kit from AFV Club gave some motivation to start it. I'm also working on some figures and base to make a vignette inspired on Reforger exercices of late 80's.

The basic kit was improved with Def Models metal barrel and wind sensor, Orange Hobby antenna, Tamiya Hoffmann device, Eduard photoetched and Bronco tracks, plus some scratch. Stowage from Meng, Tamiya and Legend. Painted with K4, Model Air and Tamiya acrylics, weathering with oils and AK interactive enamel products (washes, filters, pigments, dirt deposits).

Hope you like it and comments welcome





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Cheers

Klaus-- great job on a fine tank! You did her proud.
Well done
DJ

Thanks DJ

Very nice. Great job on weathering and stowage.

Thanks Gino

Great work. Question though, how'd did you do the MERDC camo, is it a mix of airbrushing and hand brushing?

Thanks Kody!

MERDC camo was painted freehand with an 0,3 mm airbrush, quite a challenge by the way, I followed a template I found online.

Forgot to mention, I tried to add the mud holes on sprokets, I used a motor toool but ended up too round (sigh...) also changed the kit 0,50 cal MG using one from Academy and adding the side bars for the blank firing adaptor.

Cheers

Phantastic work Klaus. Great painting and weathering effect and the level of detail you put into your build is just stunning.
Great images as well.

Thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Walter

Thanks for your comments Werner

Cheers!

Very nice. You have a good eye for details and weathering.

The stuff you missed is the kind of stuff that unless you were there you wouldn't pick up on. Highly intuitive stuff very difficult to get from pictures.

An example, one wouldn't use straps to attach a track link to the bustle rack. Track weighs far too much for that. Trust me, I once tried just to see if it could be done. You bolt the center guides to the rungs of the rack so it hangs there. How do you think track pads are attached to the rear of the bustle rack? The bolts are passed through the net.

The hose of the bilge pump next to the driver's hatch pinches shut when not pumping. Once you know that you can see it in pictures, but if you didn't you might never notice. And that's not to say noone ever didn't put an open nozzle on the end, because you could and there are some I knew who would have been tempted to do so. Attach a hose and pump the water completely clear of the tank rather then splashed down the glacis plate.

Fantastic work though. You really captured the look of the old beast.

Thanks for your comments and insights Stephen, I'll take them in consideration for my next M60 (new A3 from AFV Club, I alredy have it!!)

Cheers

PAINTED FREE HAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I swear it looks airbrushed, how much thinning did you need to do on the paint?

Hi Kody,

What I mean is that I airbrushed all 4 MERDC colours, but no masking, just old MK1 eyeball following the template I found.

Cheers

Wow. Very nice!

Thanks Dustin

Cheers

Very awesome. My fav tanks and I love the winter verdant scheme.

One easy fix you might consider:

The control cable for the gun fire simulator goes through the coax machine gun port. That the one on the loaders side. You've got it going through the gunners sight.