What company makes a good plastic kit of 1/35 american tankers?
Coming from you, Chris, I assume you want modern. I’ve seen a few, but for the life of me, can’t remember who. Sorry. Might have been Verlinden or possibly Dragon. WWII stuff, Dragon makes a few, TriStar makes some real nice pieces, and CMK does some.
Sorry I can’t be more help.
Bill
Dragon, has a set of tankers(modern)
modern or wwii
tamiya makes these for ww2 
Oops, didn’t catch the significance of the plastic notation. CMK is resin. Sorry again.
Bill
woops, I was wanting WWII. something to go into my M10
actually I do more WWII than modern.
Well, in that case. I was about to tell you about Tristar. But they have mostly German figures. Try going to greatmodels.com. From the main page, select Cross Reference on the left of the screen, then select World War Two and United States on the next screen. That will give you yet another screen full of choices, which will ultimately take you to a screen listing all the manufacturers they carry, which you can click on to view the individual sets.
Good luck. Hope this helps.
Bill
I have a set made by Dragon, U.S. TANK CREW (NW EUROPE 1944) It has 3 full and 2 half figures. I’ve use a coulpe of them on diffrent tank that I’ve built. I also have one by Tamiya U.S. Army Tank Crew, this one seems to be an older set because the detail really isn’t that great on these guys. I got that set because it had a seated gunner.
Good luck on your M-10
M1,
Verlinden makes some as well as Tamiya and Dragon.
Dynasty makes some resin US tank crew figures.
Nemrod also makes some including one in overalls.
ResiNation has self propelled gun crews (similar) and Dragon Wagon crews.
I know you said plastic, but I think the better selection, and detail is in resin.
Mike
yeah, I know it is, but so are the big price tags.
are any of the full ones seated?
The Tamiya Kits I have worked on came with nice tank crew figures. Dragon has also a great line of WWII figures but I have not seen those of the US Tank Crew here in the local shops.
well the academy M10 doesn’t come with figures.
The modeling world is a bit one sided, if you wanted German tank crew you,ld have a choice of 50 from every manufacturer, never quite understood that. (modellers tastes can,t be that one sided surely).
Its always made me wonder wether its the modellers or the manufacturers who dictate what we build or what we can build.[?]
Gotter.[:)]
ps I,m a dedicated “Jerry builder” but I always felt kinda sorry for you allied treadheads.
Hmm, I think it might be one of 2 things.
1.) Subject driven, i.e. who has/had the more interesting designs.
2.) Local audience in the place of manufacturer.
3.) Historical factors(i.e. allies, etc.)
Japanese seem to love military modelling, and they seem to like German stuff, ergo japanese companies will produce more german stuff.
Another factor might be access to the actual item to base models on too.
M1
sorry the full figures are all standing. 2 of them would be out side the vechicle and the other would be standing in the turret holding a mic.
yeah that woldn’t work on the M10
Chris, You can get some Tamyia US tankers and modifiy them to fit your M-10.
well, also (I didn’t think about this) I got a few bodies lying around. it probably wouldn’t be too hard to modify some.
Time for a tube or two of miliput. Look at some of Bill Horans conversion techniques. Meticulous at 1/35 but doable. Some of the modifications I’ve seen done in this scale are pretty phenominal. Have at it.
Considering some of the time that will be involved, the resin figs may not seem so expensive.
Mike