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M48 or M60? and variant Please

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 12:57 PM

I know when I played Fighter Ace on MSN, I collected up bits of Spitfire kits to replicate the plane I flew as opposed to being a "proper" Spitfire since the actual plane meant nothing to me, but I spent hours fighting in the online version.

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Posted by Wolfwriath on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 9:50 AM

Thankyou Rob and ajlafleche. I'm not sure if I'd go real or world or game version, I like the add on armour, makes it look like it means business (Though I do prefer the US stylized cam vs Israeli desert cam).

Now armed (so to speak) I can go and do some window shopping and decide. Thanks for the help.

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 1:10 PM

If you want to replicate your World of Tanks vehicle (and not be an accurate real world tank), you'd probably want the Academy kit. It includes the standard US cupola as well as the later style search light. It also includes the plain barrel as shown in your WoT photo as well as the correct thermal shroud barrel from the box art. The Academy kit was also boxed with a mine roller, but is the same kit with extra pieces. One on eBay for a dollar right now.

I recomment the Academy kit because it also included a separate .50 cal designed to mount over the main gun but you could use it at the loader's hatch to match your WoT photo. The Esci machine guns are rather weak and one of the low points of that company's version.

The Esci kit includes all this as well, but is long out of production and while Italeri reboxed it about 10 years ago, they deleted a few parts that you'd need (cupola, plain tube), so it would not be a recommended purchase. The AMT version of this kit (one on eBay right now for $18) includes those parts as well. It would be a good buy if you can live with the poor guns. The Esci/AMT/Italeri M60A1 base kit is considered the top kit of this tank right now. AFV Club has announced an M60A1, but it has not been seen yet.

The Tamiya kit will not include the same armor despite what some eBay sellers put on the auction. The USMC armor is different. There are several after market IDF Blazer armor sets, but they'd run you more than the Academy, Esci, AMT or Italeri kits alone.

The benefit of the Tamiya kit is the smooth road wheels. Your photo shows the later M48 style smooth steel road wheels that were used to replace the finned aluminum road wheels that M60s originally came with. Only the Tamiya USMC M60A1 w/ERA comes with the smooth road wheels. All other M60 kit variants by Tamiya, Academy, Esci/AMT/Italeri/Revell of Germany include the finned road wheels.

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Posted by ajlafleche on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:50 AM

It's an M60A1, but is neither fully Israeli nor fully US. The ERA and smoke greande arrrays are Israeli. Due to teh tendency for the cuppola to get shot of and takethe commander's head with it, the IDF pretty quickly replaced the standard cuppola with the low profile Urdan cuppola. The paint schemme appears to be US WWII and the white circled star is definately NOT contemporary to any M60.  These kits will get you where you want to go, but they look to be only availble on Ebay.

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Posted by Wolfwriath on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 6:59 AM

Thankyou very much pyrman and Jon

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Posted by Wolfwriath on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 6:57 AM

Well my system is being a royal PITA and is only taking very dark screen shots for some reason, so I grabbed these pic's from where I down loaded the mod from

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Posted by pyrman64 on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 6:54 AM

That's the Israeli version of the M60A1 w/Blazer armor - Italeri (kit 6391 - M60 Blazer) and Academy (kit 1358 - IDF MBT M60A1 Blazer) make it.

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Posted by Jon_a_its on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 6:12 AM

Looks like an M60 with a 105mm main gun.

Tamiya & Academy do various versions, but your image is too dark, can you 'lighten-up' as it were, to see the details

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M48 or M60? and variant Please
Posted by Wolfwriath on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 6:00 AM

Hi I used to play World of Tanks and used a skin mod on one of my tank. If anyone can confirm what tank and armour it is that would be great. Thanks in advance.

PS If you can name a kit or kit and after market to make said armour that would be great to.

 

 

 

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