Does anyone make a good build of the American halftrack, im not too familiar with all the varients, but i am looking for the 1st version with just the machine guns in 1/35, i beleve it is called the M3, iknow Tamiya make the “mortar carrier” version. but is there anything else?
Tamiya made several variants of the M3 Halftrack:
a) M3A2 with MG pulpit, standard infantry halftrack: (the M3A2 was postwar, you need to backdate it to an M3A1)
b) M21 Mortar Carrier
c) M16 Quad 50 anti-aircraft motor carriage
There’s also the similar M3 Scout Car (by Zvesda, Italeri, Testors). Similar to the M3 halftrack but all wheeled. Used mostly early-mid war.
There are other aftermarket conversion kits out there. The US Halftrack series is very high on many modellers’ wish lists for a new re-tool.
You can find the Tamiya M3A2 kit in a lot of the stores on ebay. But you will have to back date at to the M3 version.The M3A2 is oop right now. Good Modeling. Stephen Corzette