First try at a creepy crawlie

Dragon 1/35 M16 MGMC with scratchbuilt tire chains and “batwing” armor. I also added rifle carriers, extra carbines and Archer’s gauges to the driver’s compartment.

Phil

That’s pretty cool. I like the scratched chains and that extra armor. It looks so menacing.

I’ve got two DML M16MGMCs going right now – both conversions (you have to guess what the final configurations are!). I really am enjoying the build. Yours looks great. Question about the white stripe on the jerry can on the right – is that supposed to mimic the German habit of marking their water cans with a white stripe? I’ve never seen a US jerry can with that.

I have one of these in the stash.I was considering starting it tonight.You just gave me a real good shove in that direction with this awesome build.

The Germans used a white cross to denote water.G.I.'s painted a white ‘W’ on theirs.A simple way to add a spot of detail to a build.

Nice! Really nice! I like this one a lot. One thing though, move the Thompson to the cab, where it is now would interfere with the traverse of the mount. Besides, somebody might steal it from back there, :slight_smile:

Looks great. How did you make the chains? They look so real.

Excellent build Phil. Thanks for sharing.

Regards, Rick

WOW just WOW!!

Yes, how’d you do it; they look vaguely familiar…

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First AFV!?!

Wow she looks great! I too love the chains.

I wasn’t kidding.I’m off to a good start and will be using your build as a reference.Thanks for the inspiration.

Excellent job!

I really like the different shade of green on the ammunition drums. The extra armor on the gun mount adds personality to this commonly modeled version of the US half track.

I usually critique when asked for yet I find your build hard to spot anything I would do different, in fact there are a few details that I will try one day when my vintage Tamiya mortor carrier hits the work bench. Thanks for sharing!

Jason

Can you post a close up shot of the dashboard?