Painting an actual tank (M60A3)?

How many Tamiya or Vallejo bottles is that going to take

I can’t help myself,sometimes I paint the turret separately off the tank,I also prefer to paint and weather the tracks off the tank,sorry again

I couldn’t begin to tell you,but sounds like a great project,post some pics if you do it.

Hello!

While the real pros are going to respond to this one soon, first thought that I had was: The Army has a manual for anything. That means painting tanks too. Just find it on the net and there you go. You're looking for a Field Manual (FM).

I also recall that for painting the MERDEC you usually started with a one colour vehicle - let's say forest green. Then you chalk in the lines and put on numbers. After that it's "paint by numbers" - and you can do it with a spray gun or with a brush. And I'd say the paint job doesn't have to be particularily neat - the real deal wasn't neither, and I had a chance to see some MERDEC paint schemes 1:1. Start from the top and go down from there. And be sure to tape over all the things the real tank would need unpainted - like the headlight glass, periscopes, sights and so on, don't paint that, it makes the tank look dead.

Hope it helps - have a nice day

Paweł

If you look on cybermodeler, the m60 had many many paint schemes.

The real questions are these:  Does it run? If so, do you get to drive it? 

Chances are that it will not run.  A battle tank is not something you want just anybody to get in and drive around.  Look what happened some yoars ago when someone hoppen in a M-60 and took it for a ride.  The end result was substantial dammage to civilian vehicles, and property and the local police could do nothing to stop it.  It finally ended on a highway when the operator screwed up and tried to cross the concrete barrier to go into on-comming traffic and groundedhimself.  He was then shot by the polce who managed to open a turret hatch that was left unlocked.

I remember Nemo.  I met him at Lackland during the Security Police combat course.

Reminded of a really bad James Garner movie.

Tim and Jill racing M1's at a Marine Base.

Many years ago, I went out to Aberdeen when they had a lot of AFVs on display. Some genius had painted all the German stuff yellow, all the french stuff light blue, all the Russian stuff pink and all the US stuff light green IIRC. And I mean painted as in held by their heel and dipped in the can.

Good luck.