Nice of Academy to throw in the M4 suspension sprue just for the wheels

http://www.ipmsdeutschland.de/Ausstellungen/Nuernberg2006/Bilder/2.html

David

Thanks I may be mistaken,probably am :-) ,but I think some M3 late types had the M4 style bogies

Think so too, M4 bogies were occasionally used as replacements (e.g. on a South African Grant command tank in Italy) and some reworked tanks used in Australia had them too.

Judging by the rest of the sprues, the Academy M3 is an early one with the Wright engine and upright exhausts.

They were built with them towards the very end of production.




It appears to be so, yes. However, having the late suspensions and the longer M3 gun goes a fair way to permitting you to build a very late M3 with the heavy duty suspension, the longer 75mm, the side doors deleted , the fittings for the stabiliser fitted (i.e. the coutnerbalance for the 37mm) and the late Continental engine plate & air cleaners. A donor kit for the rear engine plate and some plastic sheet and you're away.

It would look good in Burma theatre colours, no?

Paul