Here I go again,
The only thing I did to this one, was to replace the barrel. I used a piece of plastic to make it look like it had the later closed breech scavenger system as oppossed to the earlier open breech system.
I know there were other differences, such as the rear hull for the air cylindres, but just went with the barrel look that I liked.
Any and all comments are welcome and appreciated[:D][:D].
Joe
Joe,
Nice work on the M-60 A-2. I don’t think I have ever seen this version before. Was this some kind of specialized M-60 or ? Anyway, the weathering looks very realistic and scuffed up quite well. Keep up the good work.
TH
Hi thuber1967,
Thanks for the kind words.
This model mounted the 152MM missile launcher. According to Squadron’s M-60 in action, they said it was developed to supplement the M-60 / M-60-A1 in Europe.
My understanding is that it wasn’t very successful.
Joe
Very nice. you really have that OD color down perfect
Another nice build!
I like the variety of shading you get on your models.
Very nice build. Really like the weathering.
Regards, Rick
It worked ok, just that APFSDS rounds became a pretty big deal around this time and they were much cheaper and very potent. Shillelagh became a Sheridan thing only I believe.
Nice job!
BTW, Nice build!
I was a tank commander on the M60-A2 in Germany, we definitely fired the Shilleleigh missile , although not always successfully
Thanks to all for the kind words.
JWest21,
Is the “you really have that OD color down perfect” a good or bad thing[:-^]?
crockett,
Notice you are a fellow Buckeye. I’m about 30 miles north of Dayton in the middle of corn fields as well.
Joe
Hey Joe!
Man we are close! I’m in Van Wert, shoot me an e-mail man and we’ll hook up.
Steve
Nice build. Looks like it just came into Graf )Grafenwhor tank range) after a long road march. The vehicle was actually intended to be a specialized “tank destroyer” firing the Sheleleigh missile. Nice weapon,( when it worked, as was stated earlier) Unfortunately, those troops that did not receive adquate training tended to “follow” the beam riding missile. The missile had a tendency to drop shortly after leaving the muzzle and an unthinking gunner woule drop the sights to follow it and run the missle into the ground. Made a helluva bang when it landed within a hundred meters of the tank! However, when it did work, it worked. I have seen one take the turret off a target tank out at Ft Knox while I was there for my training prior to getting my orders changed to send me to an Engineer unit (16th out of Furth/Nurenburg). Also, there was one error I noticed on the A2 that I also built. The model uses the hull from the M60/A1. The A2 had a modification done to the rear hull to hold the two ( I believe, but I could be wrong) bottles of compressed air for the CBSS. They were stored in the rear of the hull, behind the transmission and just under the grill doors. This made a pronounced “step” in the rear hull and added a flange to the lower part of the grill doors in order to fully cover the bottles that were there. One reason that they killled the A2 project was the additional maintenance that had to be given owing to the higher pressures used in the turret rotational drive, aside from the problems with the gun/missile launcher…