USMC M4A3 dozer from Korea. Academy's 1/35 th scale kit.

Modeling Subjects Armor
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I haven’t been here for quite a while now, but I have been building. My goal is a series of armor builds depicting the US Marine Corps through time to the present. This is part of my Korea period.

I used the Academy kit with a few DML spare parts for greater accuracy. DML always provides a boatload of stuff in every kit that isn’t used so they come in handy when building a moldy oldy like this. Academy got the look right but DML’s parts are finer in detail.

Paint is mostly Tamiya with oil and enamel for weathering. Figures are vintage Tamiya as I liked the look. Stowage is a mishmash of my scratchbuilt pieces, resin accessories, and home cast resin pieces.

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Here’s a close up of the stowage. I made the tent from a piece of paper and plastic hex rod cut to length.

G

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Hi,

Awesome it looks very nice, specially since its not over weathered.

Seems like now, everything has to be extremely weathered, pigmented, chipped, dusted, chalked, dry brushing, post shading to make it realistic.

I’m more into the light used schemes.

At some point every single tank out there was new, or had minor use. So your model brings down to earth this aspect of the modeling.

In fact I have looked at pictures from WWII and many thanks look relatively clean, only some minor dust

Many were used on streets or during dry seasons.

Good job.

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Thank you for the comments. I fully agree with your observations on weathering. This is in fact one of my most weatherd builds in quite a while. I like to say we capture a moment in time when we build a model. Who’s to say what moment that is?

I have pics of this very tank at the Chosin Resevoir in December 1950. The dozer blade is missing and there is no .50 cal. mounted. The tank in the pic looks like it was white washed, but overall not muddy or too dirty. It was upwards of 20 below zero then so there was NO mud. To me I think this captures the tank just before winter, say fall of 1950, just before the weather turns super cold on the penninsula.

G

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Nicely done G! I have the Dragon kit of this variant, no dozer blade on it. Where did you get the water cans? They are not the GI screw top oil/fuel cans that everybody puts out, but the actual flip top water cans! Nice touch!

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Thanks Carlos! Ireally wanted one with the blade on it that’s why I went Academy. All in all not a bad kit.

Those are Tasca water cans from the set they sell seperately. I found them at the LHS and scarfed em up!

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Looks like I need to find me a set of those Tasca water cans. Thans for that info G! Yes The Academy Sherman kits are nice. I picked up a couple of their M4A2 76mm kits for dirt cheap awhile back. Very well done. I think only real area for critique is the tracks, and that is an easy fix. The dozer tanks do have an appeal all their own, sort of like mine plow or mine roller tanks.

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Great job on the Sherman Agent G and the storage and figures came out great! Love the tie-downs for the canvas mantlet cover!

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Thank You Sir!

Those little fixtures and the cleaning rod rack I built on the rear engine deck made me crosseyed.

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But the finished results are worth it G. Don’t you have a good eye plan on your insurance? :wink:

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Yes I do thank goodness, that and the legislature has rescinded our pay cut. I may just get new specs!

G

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Very nice looking build, G! I really like the figures, especially the one leaning on the mg. They really add life to the subject. Kudos!

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A really nice build here G man.

!http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/wink3-smiley.gif?1292867701In an attempt to help out, everything looks spot on except the fairing in of the ejection port on the turret. All shermans with this feature should show the port like this…

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