This is an old Revell model based on the cartoon series GI Joe: A Real American Hero. The kit is very basic and I sanded off some detail and added road wheels, cupola, and other various bits from 1/35 scale kits to add some more life to it.
I built the kit for a sci-fi group build I’m running on Armorama. It was something different. I haven’t had time to weather it or mark it yet. The kit comes with some dry transfer markings for the GI Joe team. Yo Joe!
Very nice, Major Rob ![tup]
Clean, crisp build
Excellent subject
to cool I loved that show growing up, I would have to get up at 5:30 to watch it, I think it was a tool for developing young soldiers, lol.[8-]
I remember when I was young and they had two other tanks in the toy version. One based on the M-60 and one based on the M1. I think the M1 version was called the Grizzly, but I can’t quite remember
Hey I still have mine, Looks good Rob.
[:D]looking good Rob, nice to see that old toys never die,they just get rebuilt.great work.[:D]
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awesome. looks a lot like the toy of the Mobat (the one based on the M-60.)
the one based on the M-1 is the Mauler, and for the new G.I. Joe they did another one sort of based on the M-1, the Patriot Grizzly. i got one for my nephew and it was so much fun i had to get one for myself; it looks pretty good next to my 1/16 King Tiger.
The Mauler- that’s it!! Ahh, the memories
Hey, now that’s something different. I have this same vehicle, but it’s an old motorized version. THe turret and gun look the same, but the hull is completely different.
I had the motorized toy when I was a kid too. I really really loved G.I.Joe as a kid too. All the cartoons were watched and I still have over 100 of the comic books in a box as well as some of the figures.
Any idea where I could get one of those too???
zokissima- was it OD green and you made it go forward or back by pushing the machine gun cupola forward or back?
That’s a very interesting looking tank, it has a rather “near-future” look, it’s not
nearly as exaggerated and unrealistic as most fictional toy tank designs. With some detailing,
conversion, and a new paint job it could make a very impressive sci-fi tank model.
I don’t believe these were sold in the UK (if they were, I’d quite like to get one!) but there was
a toy range called “Action Force”, very similar to GI Joe, with a large plastic tank which
I believe was based on the (real-life) Cadillac-Gage “Stingray” experimental light tank.
Jason, yep that’s the very one [:D]