Anybody know of a kit of the Ontos in 1/32 or 1/35 scale? I’d like to avoid resin if possible, as I cant afford an arm, leg & my 1st born son…lol…Thanx
There’s an old Revell in almost 1/35 and there’s Accuarate Armor’s resin. The Revell was released no later than the early 60’s and has been oop for quite some time. Rob G. has talked anbout this here and on other forums. He’ll probably chime in as well withmore and better information.
I don’t think Accurate Armour make the Ontos, There are resin by Nimix http://www.nimix.net/paginas%20de%20items/3512%20Ontos_ingles.htm and Hobby Fan, I think the Nimix is the cheaper of the two, otherwise it’s the old revell kit
Guess it was the Hobby Fan I was thinking of.
I recently bought a book called “Marines in Hue City” by Eric Hammel. It has some interesting pics of the Ontos. They used it kind of like a calvalry horse. They’d speed up to a target, let loose some recoiless rifle hate n’ discontent, and then speed away. Those guys had some guts.
Semper Fi,
Chris
The old Revell kit of 1982 is the old Renwal kit of 1956 and is 1/32 scale.
Mail Call on History Channel had fully functional Ontos. I never had any interest in building this one, but after seeing it on TV, I want to build one as well.
Ditto, that was one sweet little vehicle. Nice to see it fully functional – recoiless rifles included!
Andy
Thanx for all the info guys, appreciate it
Heres a finished Ontos.
Always like the Ontos. My M-706 and 113 had thicker armor though. If I remember right, it was a fire and pull back weapon because you had to go outside the vehicle to reload. When we trained on 90mm rifles, you learned that everybody in the area knew you were when you pulled the trigger because it kicked up all sorts of debris around you. If possible, fire and move.
Renwell also did an Ontos in the early 60’s and I think it was 1/35th also. Don’t know whatever happened to them
That Mailcall episode with the Ontos was re-broadcast this weekend. The vehicle is at the Patton Museum at Fort Knox. I hadn’t realized that all the armor vehicles on display at the Patton Museum are fully functional and operational.
Mike T.
I have seen the Ontos on E-Bay several times they always go for high prices. I think you would be better off just buying the resin kits.
Grizz
Not all of the display tanks are fully functional. The museum has the benefit of being located where the Army trains tankers and tank mechanics. Volunteers have a good pool of information to draw from.
This vehicle was debuted during the 2006 Armor Warfighting Symposium (formerly known as the Armor Conference and this year will be known as the Armor Warfighting Conference).