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Tamiya M3A1 Stuart
ColinEdm
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Posted: Friday, November 09, 2018 - 06:55 AM UTC
Rick Cooper shares some pictures of his finished M3A1 Stuart from Tamiya in 1/35.



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Kevlar06
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Posted: Friday, November 09, 2018 - 09:32 AM UTC
Rick has done an excellent job on this, with the dust reminding me of times when I could taste it in my mouth after a long road march. It looks just like that too on real tanks in dusty dry climates. I do have one question-- what's up with the green-green TCs headgear?-- Its not OD, looks like the TC gave it a coat of paint in the shade of faded Kelly Green!
VR, Russ
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Posted: Friday, November 09, 2018 - 10:06 AM UTC
The grubby/dusty look is top notch, and the tank & base match perfectly! Seems like I'll have to get one of these new Stuarts and toss the ancient ones.
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Posted: Friday, November 09, 2018 - 01:21 PM UTC
Wish I had a good answer for your question about the headgear. Best I can come up with is it was supposed to be the base-coat only! I'll need to do some work on it for sure.

Thanks for pointing that out!!

Cheers,
Rick
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Posted: Friday, November 09, 2018 - 02:30 PM UTC
I think I have found my next new build!

You sold me on this, Rick!
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Posted: Thursday, November 22, 2018 - 06:00 PM UTC
The commanders .30 Browning needs to be fixed. its sitting wrong in the mount and looks like its missed being painted (apologies if this was a WIP images). a .30 should look like this in the mount

http://browningmgs.com/SB1919/photos/0516.jpg
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