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New Tamiya M8 HMC in 1/48


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7 hours ago, Bullbasket said:

It does look very nice. I don't know a great deal about these tanks, but I'm wondering if by scratch building a new turret, an M5 could be produced. Time for some research.

 

John.

I'm sure the resin manufacturers are already on it 

 

This thing looks a bit soft on detail, but should be a good canvas for aftermarket sets

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9 hours ago, Bullbasket said:

It does look very nice. I don't know a great deal about these tanks, but I'm wondering if by scratch building a new turret, an M5 could be produced. Time for some research.

 

John.

You'd need to replace the whole hull roof plate and glacis as the M8 turret had a larger diameter turret ring than the M5 and also, because of that larger turret, the roof-mounted crew hatches for driver and co-driver were deleted (hence the large hatches in the glacis). Some M8s were converted to recce/command types by removing the turret. I'll be picking up a couple of these for projects.

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