I am putting the final touches on my M60, and I am looking for a name for my model. Any names/pics would be greatly appreciated.

WAR PIG, or perhaps razor blade? or paper clip? drive shaft? office chair? surplus? VFW Memorial?

How bout this one??

Delta Dragons

Don

Mine was called "Black Jack" (bumper number A-21), but the B Company 2nd platoon leader asked me if he could use the name. I then changed the name to "Wild One". My battalion carried either a platoon or company motto on the bore evacuator. The tank name was on the smoke grenade box. The platoon motto was "Deuces Wild" on the bore evacuator and my call sign was Deuces Wild 1.

Is this common practice? I've noticed in the Squadron book on self-propelled artillery that a lot of vehicles had two names, one on the vehicle itself, another on the gun. Like the gun had a special name all it's own.

We had one in B Company 1-40th Armor, named "Bud Man" with a picture of the Bud Man holding a HEAT round - painted completely in camo paint. The Name was on the bore evacuator and the picture for on the each side of the turret just behind mantlet. He stood about two feet tall. For those that don't know thw Bud Man, this was about 1976!!!

Are you married? Got a girlfriend? If so, score some points by putting her name on it...so she's always on your mind while your in your "modeling world"....I'm going to do either a tank or a plane someday in honor of my wife...the least I can do after she's put up with me and my hobbies for 21 years...

One word of caution though...avoid putting your girlfriends name on it If your married...you might be starting your model collection from scratch...

You can start with the company/troop letter, and go with that. A Co could be APEHANGER, ASSASIN, etc. Or something off the wall, like GHETTO SLED

well 11charlie, the problem there is assuming that I only have one girlfriend

When I named "Black Jack", I covered over the previous name "Kelly". Kelly was the name of the previous platoon leader's girlfriend. His wife's name was Dorothy.

I crewed/TC'd M60A3s with names like "Mjollnir"/"Thor's Hammer" (one name on each side of the bore evacuator), "Sweet Cin'" (the TC/Platoon Leader's wife), and "Pyssonia II" ("piss on ya'", named for B-17 that the TC's father-in-law crewed during WWII). It was a "II" partly because the original "Pyssonia" was shot down.

That would pose a problem...unless your building a tank platoon... :-)

While we're on the subject of M60's, I have a question...

There is one on display about ten minutes from my house...don't know if it's an A3 or what and quite frankly, I wouldn't know how to tell the difference from the earlier models...anyway, it's painted entirely dark green and has the white star on the front...like the WWII markings...it's named "Shooting Star"....I'm not convinced M60's were ever painted like that, but I want to know for sure, cause it bugs me every time I drive by the thing...

Yes, M60, M60A1 and M60A2 were painted in the glossy OD green with big white star. As a matter of fact, M60A3TTS tanks in the Berlin Brigade were still painted in an overall drab forest green color until they transitioned to M1A1 tanks in 1989.

An easy way to tell if it is an A3 would be if the gun tube has a thermal shroud (makes the barrel look fatter than the end muzzle piece). Also if you can see the right side optical blister (nearest the TC cupola), it would have a little flap covering the hotdog shaped opening (laser range finder eminated from that blister). The optical blisters are those round things that stuck out of the sides of the M48/60 series tanks.

In the 1960s and early 70s US armor was dark olive drab with white markings. During early 80s when the CARC (chemical agent resistant coating) came out all new vehicles were flat dark green, until the new three color NATO camo was approved, however all markings were in black. The Berlin Berlin, as SABOT mentioned, coated their tanks with diesel fuel to make them shine for parades, even as late as 1983, when I watched the big Allied May Day parade.

I stand corrected guys! Thanks so much for the information...now I need to take a closer look to determine if it's A3 or not...I know it doesn't have the thermal Shroud on the barrel, but I've never taken a really close look at the rest of the tank...gonna do that soon...

I have 2. My first was from my M60A3 in armor school (during the "Ten-Day War"), which we called "The Jungle" after the GunsnRoses song. We applied this with camo stick face paint . this way it can be removed when we turned in the tanks. My second was "Kelly's Hero", being as my fiance's name was Kelly and I, of course, was her hero. Add to it the movie "Kelly's Heroes" and it all comes together...
And no, the tank Sabot is referring to did not belong to me (just not the philandering type...)