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Richard50
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Posted: Sunday, August 23, 2020 - 06:27 AM UTC
Cheers Boots.Yes i think with a bit of roughing up the tracks will do for me indeed.
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Kevlar06
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Posted: Sunday, August 23, 2020 - 07:26 AM UTC

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Yes it does, thee sprue with the sleeveless barrel:

https://www.italeri.com/en/product/2909


I could be wrong, but I think he meant “light” not “sight”, and the new Italeri M60A3 version apparently doesn’t come with any of the VSS series lights? Unless that’s it in the lower right hand corner of the last sprue shot? Which would make sense, since the M60A3 did not use a searchlight, it was equipped with the Tank Thermal Sight system (TTS). I can’t expand the photos to check for sure.
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Frenchy
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Posted: Sunday, August 23, 2020 - 07:46 AM UTC
Italeri M60A3 kit #6582 includes the AN/VSS-3a :


You can see the parts on this sprue (bottom right) indeed :


H.P.
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Posted: Sunday, August 23, 2020 - 07:51 AM UTC

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Many thanks Nikos.Just looked in my stash and found a MOLF conversion id forgot i had!.Another one to do.
Rich
Nice!!! Working on a couple myslf, one on the Acadmy kit and one on the Dragon kit.

The M60 kit tracks need some work (sink marks on evey couple of links) and are a bit on the thin side but definetely look the part when done.

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/237499#2003170


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I could be wrong, but I think he meant “light” not “sight”, and the new Italeri M60A3 version apparently doesn’t come with any of the VSS series lights? Unless that’s it in the lower right hand corner of the last sprue shot? Which would make sense, since the M60A3 did not use a searchlight, it was equipped with the Tank Thermal Sight system (TTS). I can’t expand the photos to check for sure.
VR, Russ


The light is included in the kit, it is just split into many pieces, one for each side


Kevlar06
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Posted: Sunday, August 23, 2020 - 08:30 AM UTC
Aha! I see it now in H.P.s photo. But, it looks like the lens is a solid piece of plastic, which is a bit odd. The cover for the -3 and the -3A was a canvas bag, open at the bottom, which covered the entire searchlight, so I don’t think the Italeri solid lens part depicts a cover. The cover for the large (more common on older M60A1s) VSS searchlight was a fitted covering with a hard insert that just covered the lens and a small portion of the front.
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Frenchy
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Posted: Sunday, August 23, 2020 - 08:53 AM UTC
On a side note, DEF Model M47 set includes both options :


H.P.
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