Help with M36B1 references

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I am ready to begin building an M36B1 (M36 turret on an M4A3 hull). I need help with Resources. My LHS that carried a good reference section, closed and I can no longer look at whats inside the cover. There are a few references out there for the M36 or tank destroyers but I can’t look through them to see if they will be helpful in my case. I need interior/exterior photos. Any unit or individual tank markings would be greately appricated. Color photos would be helpful if they are true to the WWII colors. There is a cd of an M36B1 manuel but I haven’t seen or herd about how helpful it would be. If you know of some good titles and publishers (ISBN) it would be a big help. I’m somewhat anal about my builds and I want to get them as correct as I reasonably can. Thanks, hope I can return the favor sometime, Greg.

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Squadron does a tank destroyer in action that focuses on the M 10, M 18 and M 36 (inc the B1). I have it and it has pretty good pics, I’d recomend it for a start. There is also a walkaround (I would supposed it covers all 3 as well, but I don’t have it. There are a bunch of on-line sites as well you might try - prime portal being one. Also, the 701st TD and 899th TS have on-line historical sites, but I don’t recall which TDs they fielded.

Hope this helps

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I built one of these a few months ago.Paint the inside of the turret Olive Drab.Surfaces below the turret ring are white.If you are building the 1/35 Italeri M36B1,I would ditch the vinyl tracks that come with the kit.They absolutely would not fit and I busted off an idler wheel trying to get them installed.I used the appropriate indy links.I think they were from AFV Club.

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You may be able to find some new pictures of the M36B1, as oddly, the Iraqi’s ahad a few still in use. Just a reminder that the muzzle brake was applied after WWII.

http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/the_rest_of_the_story_the_m36s_from_iraq.html

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/spoelstra/g104/iran.htm

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Supposedly these were originally vehicles given to Iran in the 1950’s.

I just re-furbished my old Testor’s/Italeri M36B1 and one opf the things that I added was AFV Club tracks, they fit perfectly.

Mike T.

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Check the above link.

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And this one.

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I have not seen too many photos of these in service, though Concord’s “US Tank Destroyers in Action” has 2 or 3.

Are you building the Italeri kit or using parts from other kits?