Hey all, here is my recently complete kit of a M6Linebacker.

Based on the Bradley chassis, basically just replaced the TOW launcher box with a Stinger launcher box.



Barrel Depot barrel, after I had a small accident with the kit barrel, oh well...looks better anyway.



The Stinger box is off of the old Esci Humvee Stinger kit. The original Humvee kit came sans body...so it was a little hard to build that way!! Knew the parts would come in handy someday!!!!!



Few scratch built items, extra antennae on the bustle rack. Shiney confetti for the optics. Coke and Mountain Dew pop cases thanks to a fellow Armorama member....









Hope you like them!!!!

Looks pretty good. There are some other bits and pieces, mostly boxes on the turret of the M6 as well. They are for IFF transponders and digital equipment for talking with the Sentinel Radar as well. Looks great though. Good job. One thing I do see though, bumper numbers are for an Infantry Bn (the ones that come with the kit), should be for an ADA Bn.

Hey Gino,

Yeah I agree in the bumper numbers, but it was all I had.....and "most" people wouldn't notice...LOL

As far as the other bits and pieces...when I was building it, I had a hard time finding some definate pictures that would show it. I had a minor disagreement with someone here in town about it, and for every picture he could show me (which I already had) of ones with the little bits and pieces, I showed him one that didn't have those bits and pieces, and the ones I had were operational in Iraq or Afghanistan.

I don't think there was any semblance of continuity to the M6 tracks, as I am sure its a fairly new piece of kit, and when they find something on one of the older ones, they add it to the new ones.

I have pics of M6s that have none of those IFF transponders and such on them. Some pics I have don't even show a coax gun.

I have another of the Stinger boxes, so I may build another one with all the scratch built stuff on it. I have a picture of the M6 with the new add on armor that Blast Models is coming out with, and I think it would look cool on a Linebacker kit.

Really, as easy as it would be for Tamiya to build a few new parts for the M2A2 kit, I am surprised that they haven't come out with a kit of the Linebacker as of yet.

Looks really good, Scott. You might want to consider a tad more weathering for a vehicle that has been in the field. Also, what is holding the ALICE packs and seabags on the side of the vehicle ?

The basic conversion looks good, but then again I'm not really sure on how much upgrading there is from the M2A2 to the M6 Linebacker.

I like how you did the crew stowage in the turret bustle.

Great work

Cheers !!

Alpen

Scott, looks great. If you decide to do another Linebacker, how about some markings for 3 ACR? I know a couple of ADA guys here who would go nuts over that thing and I'm sure they could give you any and all info you need to pull off another great build. Thanks for sharing. "Q"

The "major" error I see is the inclusion of the old swim barrier fittings. The M6 came out well after the Army declared the Bradley unsafe to swim and no M6 had the swim barrier installed.

The items I see that should have bee left off are the large U-shaped object that runs along the front of the hull from headlight assembly to headlight assembly.

Also the swim barrier support poles should be left off. There are three sets of them on your kit: one set is below the platform where the shovel is located; the other set is below the 7.62mm ammo cans on the left rear of the hull; and the third set is on the opposite side on the right rear hull.

I'd have painted the 5 gallon water cans on the left front hull tan. The vast majority of our water cans are made of tan plastic.

Your headlights look amber and the front blinker lights are red. The headlights should be clear/silver and the front blinker lights should be amber.

Nice build overall, just pointing out some constructive critiques.

The headlights I actually drilled out and painted silver, and a friend of mine did the headlight lenses for me out of thin sheet plastic...a technique that is lost on me (somehow I have lost the ability to make antenna out of stretched sprue as well...must be old age).

The front turn signals are also painted silver with a mixture of Tamiya Clear Red and Yellow (Orange/Amber), as well...but I think with all the dust coats I put over the M6...which of course doesn't really show up in the pictures, made the clear headlights a tan color and may have change the Amber turn signals a different color.




In this Sabot is right...I just looked at all the pics I have of the M6....and only the "promo" pics of what i would think is the prototype has the swim barrier left on it. However none of the operational ones in theater have them. Oh well....guess it will just have to be an early model M6 or prototype!! LOL





The A2 version of the Bradley actually has different side armor then the A1 version, and it has handles and clips on the side of the armor that you can unclip a strap loop through the handle and reclip to the pack, and this would hold the packs onto the side of the vehicle. Hence the homemade straps on the water and fuel cans.