M-113 interior and cupola

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Hey everyone…
I’m doing a bit of cross pollination here, since I’m usually on the aircraft end of things… (I’ll wait for you all to stop throwing stuff at me! LOL)

I’ve got an M-163 that I’ve stolen the 20mm cannon from to outfit my Cobra with an M-35 gun system, leaving me with an M-113 to build. What’s the best source for an interior, cupola and crew for the 113? I’m looking to add it to a 1/35 Vietnam diorama and want it to be as accurate as possible.

Thanks very much!

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are u going to scratch-build the interior? tamiya makes a m-113 w/ an interior for only like 15$.

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Tamiya, Academy and Italeri all make M113A1s with fairly complete interiors. Academy also makes the M113A2 and Revell of Germany reboxes the Italeri kit. I am unaware of an aftermarket interior for the M113 since all straight M113 kits come with a decent interior. Each manufacturer’s interior has its own plusses and minuses. Stock M113 cupolas are a dime a dozen. I probably have an extra one laying around somewhere. I know one comes in the M109 SP howitzer kits. If you don’t build the Germany variant, you’ll have a spare M113 cupola.

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Hey guys,

Thanks! Problem is, for some reason, Italeri decided an interior was not necessary with the M163 kit. So, I’m left with the choice of scratchbuilding or aftermarket. While scratchbuilding certainly is a posssibility, I don’t have the time to do so. Anyhow, thanks for all of your help. Guess this is gonna be a bigger project than I thought!

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Try to go and see on www.cavalleriaitaliana.it, there’s a Revell’s M113 step by step including all the of interiors. The site is in Italian, but once you’re there click on “Ricerca” (search) at te bottom on the page and type in M113 and press the “Cerca” button, then choose from the results.
Ciao

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Eduard makes several kits that will fill the the inside of you kit. Verlindin also make some nice after market kit to do just about anything with a M-113 that you might want to do.

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Maple Leaf Models makes aftermarket addons for M113s, dont know if they would be any help, they might all be for Canadian vehicles

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I was poking around over at www.greatmodels.com, saw these and thought of you.

http://greatmodels.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=ed35426

http://greatmodels.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=ed35436

http://greatmodels.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=ed35202

http://greatmodels.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=ed35437

http://greatmodels.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=ed35438
more for modern 113?s

http://greatmodels.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=ed35493

Hope some of those might intrest you…

But then again, looking at the price, you could buy a whole new 113 with full interior.

Let me know if you still need a crew. I know a perfect one for you…