I finished this in a week (not bad going for me).
Progress pic:
Finished pic:
Is that the Airfix or Monogram 1/32 kit?
Wow, I haven’t seen one of these in a looong time–looks cool! Esp. for just a week!
Wish I could build that fast! Is this the Monogram or Airfix kit? I saw someone build the Airfix kit some years ago and it turned out beautifully.
It looks like you desertized it up nicely with the weathering. Cammo looks good. Was the spare tracks really the same as the base or did you ad-lib? Not sure myself.
Edit: Slow typist, I got beat to the question. LOL
Really great to see someone tackle an old kit in an odd-ball scale and do it justice!! Well Done! Mike
Looks real good Brews. Nicely done.
Regards, Rick
Great work, any chance for some different angles for pics? Nice weathering to.
David
Gee, I’m overwhelmed by your responses.
It’s Airfix, and it’s a lovely-fitting kit. The tracks fit quite loosely, but they’re well-detailed.
I do have other angles, but with photobucket misbehaving on the weekend, I didn’t upload them. I’ll have another try tonight.
As for the “oddball scale” comment, wouldn’t you say that 1:35 is THE oddball scale? If I recall, it came about because Mr Tamiya made one or two box-scale kits that worked out at about 1:35, and it stuck. Of course, that could just be an urban myth.
1:32 fits in well with A/c and slot cars, after all.
Cheers,
Bruce
Nice work on an golden oldie.
And 30 years later, it is still the best Grant on the market. I’ve got two of the Lees and two of the Grants. Nice kits.
I’m glad you agree with me, Rob 
Here are the other views I have.
This model has been sent to the UK for dispaly at Scale Modelworld at Telford this weekend. Not for competition, but as part of the IPMS UK Classic British Kits Special Interest Group.
I’ve built the Airfix M3 Lee and it sure was a beauty. Trying to find the M3 Grant here in the US is difficult to say the least. Has anyone here built their 1/32 Crusader?
What colors did you use for the camo scheme?
Chris Hall has built a fine 1:32 Crusader.
As for my colours … I mixed some acrylics … I started with Gunze RLM 79 and RLM04, with Tamiya XF-(2?)(white) for the light brown colour, and Gunze 37 (wood) for the darker one.
I filtered with Testors light tan. Washed with Tamiya smoke. Dry-brushed with tan and wood, and I used some ochre pastel to represent scratches down to primer. Testors acryl black for the M1919(?) 0.30cal. Tamiya weathering master pastels … sand, mud and another greenish brown one.
I may have used other colours.
I have their Crusader, but have not built it. I bought it from a hobby shop that occasionally carries estate sales items for $5. The kit was missing the multi-piece commander figure, but was otherwise complete. It is a nice looking kit.
There are some pics of Chris Hall’s Crusader here near the bottom of the page.
I’ll post some more piccies of the Crusader when I get back from Telford, and dig out my build notes, because I’ve forgotten which colours I used. White Ensign Models Colourcoats range, IIRC.
Cheers,
Chris.
Hey great job. This is probably the only allied tank that i fancy doing. I love the assymetrical guns. What were they thinking of when the design guy said ‘Where shall i put the big gun’, ‘In the turret…or stuck off to one side?’
Tools look v.nice. What was the wood effect done with?
…Guy
They put the gun in the hull because of feedback from British forces during combat with the Germans. The Brits determined that a 75mm was needed to defeat the PzKpfw IV Ausf. D. Neither the UK or US had the ability to place a 75mm gun in a fully rotating turret. The US then added the 75mm gun into the M2 Medium tank chassis until they could develop a tank with a turret that could use the 75mm (the M4).
The M3 was nothing more than a stop gap tank to fight in N. Africa until the M4 was ready for deployment.
Thanks for your comments. The photos must be flattering …
I don’t remember spending a great deal of time on the woodgrain … it looks from the photos like I just brushed Gunze “Wood” H37 over the lighter camo colour.
I think that the 75mm was required more for its ability to fire a decent HE shell than to defeat German armour, which was not up to even the 2pdr.
The 37mm could, of course, fire a small HE shell, but the British never, ever, made an HE shell for the 2pdr, which was a disastrous decision. I was lead to believe, from what I’d read when I was younger, that the 2pdr was “incapable” of firing HE. I didn’t know why … and for the life of me it didn’t make sense from the point of view that the only difference is the ammunition, surely. And I was right. The gun was “capable” of firing HE, but no HE shell was ever made … at least not by the British. The Germans, on the other hand, had captured so many 2pdrs at Dunkirk that they manufactured their own ammunition for them.