Hello all
The AFV Club M3A3 kit as far as I believed only produce Brit and Free french versions of the tank... What is the story with the box art depicting a tank with US ARMY serial markings?
:EDIT: Think I've found my answer... The USA markings may have been used by the Yugoslavs?

IIRC the boxart shows one of the Chinese marking options, frustratingly I can't find a photo of a Chinese M3A3 that shows the USA prefix to confirm.

Here's a low quality picture of a Chinese M3A3 that looks like the one represented on AFV Club's M3A3 kit box-art :

But it's hard to tell if the blue US markings are present or not

Frenchy

Yes! I think you're both right on... Thanks for the info
Cheers
Brad

Frenchy i have that pic in a book much better Quality what blue markings are you talking about not my sort of area.
EDIT: its from armour of the pacific war its an old osprey new vanguard one

Blue drab US serial numbers on the hull sides, the picture Frenchy posted was the one I was looking at on Tanks!, trying to see if the serial started with 30 (the usual US prefix for tank serials)

it looks like T008217C on the one closest to the camera

According to the box art, the USA + serial # should be in blue just above and slightly left of the white serial # in the whitish area as seen in the pic...

]http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/afvclub/afv35053.htm

heres the decals
and box art

The T prefix serial must be the British one, of course blue drab's low contrast with OD makes it notoriously difficult to pick up in photos.