A couple in-progs of my Pershing. Tamiya kit with working suspension. A fun build but with a few caveats.
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Travel lock is the T26E3/early prod. type attached directy to the exhaust. Later M26 it was attached to the rear hul plate and M26A2 had it on the engine deck.
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Interphone for communication between infantry and crew; attached to the right rear of the rear hull plate on post WW II vehicles. I have found no evidance of it’s use on war-time vehicles.
3)The kit hull ventilator (located between the driver’s and radio operater’s hatches) is the later large type.
- Tracks are the early version, the Korean war type (also used on the M46/47 Patton) are not interchangeable without changing the sprockets as well. Some Pershings in Korea used the early track but most did not.
I don’t know when all these changes took effect but I left off the interphone for my WW II variant.
