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Jurgen
Limburg, Belgium
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Posted: Friday, December 22, 2006 - 01:01 PM UTC
Posted: Friday, December 22, 2006 - 02:54 PM UTC
Nice one - a clean build. Welcome back to the hobby
HeavyArty
Florida, United States
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Posted: Friday, December 22, 2006 - 07:08 PM UTC
Looks like a great build. It looks way too clean to me though.
RedLeg
England - South East, United Kingdom
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Posted: Friday, December 22, 2006 - 08:30 PM UTC
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Looks like a great build. It looks way too clean to me though.
Have to agree with Gino a nice clean build, but with the dirty Stowage, maybe just a wash is all that's needed to tie it all together.
Just my two Bob
redleg
Ric_Cody
Georgia, United States
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Posted: Friday, December 22, 2006 - 08:41 PM UTC
The only thing I see, and I am not picking on you SGTROCK is that alot of people when they model an M1 series tank want to put stuff on the sponson boxes. Those are the boxes mounted on each side of the turret for the crew to put BII and what ever else is on the load plan. I know from experience that this is the last thing you want to do because alot of times something may happen in the turret and the only way to fix it is by grabbing something out of the tool bag which is kept in the loaders side sponson box. So to put big items such as camo nets and pole on them is not practical.
Ric
Ric
sgtrock76
Alabama, United States
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Posted: Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 02:33 AM UTC
Glad you guys like it i knew getting back into military subjects i just had to do a M1 i love this tank. And i will take the advice about relocating the stowage of the sponson boxes. the upside to that is now that i poped them off where the glue was left paint chips now i can sand them down and have some well worn tops.
So where can i relocate that large camo tent bag to on the hull?
And the reason i didn't do a dirty wash to the hull i'm still abit nervous on doing that right now and if i do it i will most likely stick to my watered down tamiya paints for the wash. quick and easy
So where can i relocate that large camo tent bag to on the hull?
And the reason i didn't do a dirty wash to the hull i'm still abit nervous on doing that right now and if i do it i will most likely stick to my watered down tamiya paints for the wash. quick and easy
Ric_Cody
Georgia, United States
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Posted: Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 10:43 AM UTC
in actuality the crew would have opted to mount the camo net bags on the side of the turret and mount the Rucksacks on top of the duffles in the bustle rack. I know that it would be hard to do as the rucks are hard molded as they are. More recently there would be almost nothing but some assault packs in the bustle rack since the majority of the units are working out of FOBs.
Ric
Ric