On the advice of Shermanfreak I’m going to ask my question here instead of the painting and airbrushing forum
I’m just wondering wether the americans in North Africa used the M3 Stuart as well as their M3A1, because the olive drab paint scheme in the instructions say that the particular Stuart was used at the Fort Knox training grounds, and I’d rather do a Stuart that saw combat.
Based on my quick research I found a small number of M3’s were used in Tunisia by the 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions. From what I’ve read and I didn’t read a lot, most gasoline powered M3’s went to the pacific theater and the diesel powered M3’s stayed home for training.
thanks, could you tell where you read that, I guess I’ll do a Pacific stuart or african stuart
Just checked the Squadron M3/M5 Stuart in Action and Steve Zaloga’s new book on modelling these tanks. All illstrations show US Stuarts in standard monochromati OD. There’s a training M3 with a big yellow star and stripe on the turret from Indio CA and a two tone Japanese captured M3 in green and brown. That’s about it, along withteh Cauter scheme the Brits used in Nroth Africa.
I read the info I relayed earlier in the Squadron M3/M5 Stuart in Action.
I can’t find anything about it, is it a book or a webstite?
It’s a book. There is a whole series of the “in action” for both armor and wingy thingies. The in action has a brief history and combat photos. There is also a series called “walk around”. This is more refrence photos, alot less combat photos. There are fewer of the walk arounds than the in actions.
Oh yeah, check out www.squadron.com to get them. Go to the search page, put the subject as books military and the manufacuter as squadron/ signal books. I bought both types for my M10 tank destroyer and they are priceless. I use them both so much, to me their worth their weight in gold.
I’m currently doing a Jap-captured stuart, can you tell me more about the green and brown scheme on that?[:)]
There’s a Bruce Culver painting of the captured tank in the Squadron M3/M5 Stuart in action book. These books go for around 8 or 9 bucks US in most places. Your LHS should have them or can get them. You can order them direct from Squadron as well. They’re good ref material. but they aren’t the be all/end all either. Always cross ref as much as you can.
[:I]Correction to my last comment, it’s a Don Greer painting. I guess I had one of those [:p] moments. Sorry.
I couldnt find the book, I checked suqadron products and sqadron/signal books, what is the exact link to the page with the info?
[:I] OKay I’ve mislead you. My copy is copywritten in 1979 so it may be out of print. I checked my Squadron catalog and it’s not there. It should be item #2018. You might be able to find it on ebay or in the out of print section at Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Sorry, it’s been that kind of day around here. Sniffing too many dullcoat fumes or something. [:p]
Check your e-mail. [:)] As it turns oout, the tank in question is said to have operated in Manila.
Thanks for the help guys, I can’t find anything on ebay but maybe someone on these forums who knows about the americans in N.A. could help me,
one other question, I hadn’t looked around for aftermarket and photoetched parts before I started my model (seeing as it’s my first one) and I just found a photo-etched part set, would I still be able to add them this late when the construction and OD base coat is finished and just paint over them?