Patton Progress and two more started by the Duke

Modeling Subjects Armor
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Well, I’m moving right along here. I have six models at the clearcoat and decal stage. Two of thm are helicopters which have been posted in the Helicopters Forums. Here are the pics showing my latest progress on my Pattons.

With the difficult camo patterns that two of my M-60’s needed, I decided to concentrate on them today. Here they are all ready for clearcoat and decals.

First is my M-48 for my German Army:

The top is only dry fit on. I’ll be able to remove it to install the tracks.

Now my M-60 Dozer tank. This is with the full camo pattern on it:

Next is my Italian M-60 with the reactive armor on it:

And finally, my Marine Corps M-60 with reactive armor:

Now, I know the Marine Corps tank is not an accurate camo pattern. Nor is the different color on the Italian tank’s reactive armor correct. I got the idea for the Marine Corps tank because I have an AAVP7 with sand-colored ERA panels over a three-tone camo pattern already built. Since that looked so cool on the AAVP7, I decided to apply the same color scheme to this tank. It does look pretty cool, even if it ain’t accurate. I sure like it this way! Same with the Italian one. I wanted to break up the monotonous one color with something different. Anyway, that’s how these bad boys are gonna be finished. Also, the top hulls on all these tanks have not been glued down. That will make it easier to ad the tracks later.

Now, while waiting for the different colors on the multi-colored camo patterns to dry, I figured I’d keep busy with a couple of quickie builds. And what’s quicker than a 1/72 scale artillery piece? Not much, so I pulled a couple of them out and went to work. By the time I finished all the camo patterns, these two little gems were fully assembled.

Here they are.

This is my ACE 1/72 scale Russian F-22 76mm Field gun:

And this is my ACE 1/72 scale 7.5cm PAK 50 anti-tank gun:

By the way, that last little gun is only about 2 inches long or so. Fun stuff!!

That’s all I was able to get done so far. Maybe this weekend I can get some of these completed. I’ll keep you posted.

Meanwhile, thanks for looking in and comments are welcome.

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I wish you had asked about that ERA scheme. I have some pics of a Marine M60 in Desert MERDC camo with the Sand ERA blocks during Desert Shield. When I build my Marine M60 one day I am planning on making it in that scheme.

I swear you must be insomniac and building night and day friend [swg]

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You have several nice looking builds coming along there ! I love the bulldozer camo. How on earth do you manage to keep track (no pun intended [;)]) of all these models at the same time?

Julian [:)]

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You are turning into an armor factory.

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I’m sorry Carlos. I didn’t know. I’d still be interested in seeing those pics. I appreciate the confirmation that I’m not totally inaccurate. I did freehand the camo using my own imagination.

As for being insomniac, well not quite. I do get my eight hours of sleep every night. What you see here is about 2-4 hours of work a day. That’s it.

Julian, thank you for the compliments. As for keeping track, I have a side table set up near my workbench. Every time I stop work on one model, I put the sprues and instructions back in the original box, while putting the unfinished model above my bench on some holding shelves.Then I pull down another one, remove it’s parts etc. from the original box and build on. Sometimes, I may have some misfortune and lose a canopy, the decals, sometimes even a whole sprue, but not often. (knock on wood)

“turning into” my friend? [:O][swg] I think I’m well established as an armor factory. That’s how I picked up the other nickname I have: Maddog Manufacturing. That was coined by a friend on the LEM, after seeing me complete 47 armor, 24 aircraft and 5 ship models iin one year!

Thanks again guys for all the great comments!

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Hi Stik (or anybody else for that matter),

By any chance at all do you still have that pic with camoed -60 and sand ERA pannels?. Looking for a scheme for my M60 w/ RISE and I just finished a IDF 60’ in tan (/forums/t/133606.aspx)… so could use a variation on the theme.

In the meantime I’ll leave you this beaut:

Thanks for the help!