Very impressive work on the old Renwal kit! Your mix for the USMC Green came out excellent! The yellow stars are a new one to me though. Aside from early WWII Stateside and North Africa, I don’t recall any other US vehicles sporting those.

Hello!

Right on, that model is impressive! Building that interior must have been a lot of work. What did you use for reference?

I also wanted to build an interior for this baby, but I didn't have enough reference, and even if I did, the workload would probably kill me...

Thanks for sharing and have a nice day!

Paweł

Oh wow, nice work!!! As much as I enjoy the modern kits it's always awesome to see these vintage kits done up beautifully!

Thanks Pawel....

Yes it is a lot of work....but once it's done it's well worth it.....

For references I used a number of photos I got of the internet.

If you are interested in them I can post them here....(then you can see all my mistakes of course).

The funny thing is, I am now building the ZTZ-99 tank from Hobbyboss.  Compared to the fit issues, sanding and detail of the M55 kit,,,this kit is such a joy to assemble compared to the Renwal kit...(difference of 54 years between molding technology)

Stuart06

Painted Tamyia USMC green (mix of several different colors to get what I want)...

Harold

Wow, verynice work. I love the Vietnam red dust/clay weathering. You nailed it.

Great work on a dog of a kit.  It turned out very nice.

Thanks everyone for the comments,

Sargent,,,Thanks for the comment on the color.....As i was coming close to finishing, my work table became very conjested so I decided to clean it up, and in doing so, I threw out the formula that I had written down.....

However from memory,,,here is what I believe I used.  Percentages are aprox.

From what i gathered, the countries that used them was Belgium, Turkey, Spain, West Germany, Republic of China

I remember reading something of where they were used i Vietnam, but can't remember now and can't find the site anymore.  They did get replaced by the M110 in 1960's

GlennH

Really nice work. I'm really curious where in country those were. Your model is the first I have ever seen of these.

 

Being a Marine Corps vehicle, that would be in I Corps AOR up north. 

Stuart06

Thanks everyone for the comments,

Sargent,,,Thanks for the comment on the color.....As i was coming close to finishing, my work table became very conjested so I decided to clean it up, and in doing so, I threw out the formula that I had written down.....

However from memory,,,here is what I believe I used.  Percentages are aprox.

XF-58 - Olive Green -60%

XF-59 - Desert Yellow -15%

XF-57 - Buff -15% or may have been XF-55 - Deck tan 

XF-17 - Sea blue - 10% 

 

You wlil have to play around a bit, but it should be close.

I believe you ask this on the other site, if so let me know you are the same person otherwise I will post it there as well.

 

ygmodeler4

Looks well done to me! Interesting vehicle, almost looks like the front of the hull should be the rear, guess that's because there's a big honkin' gun on the back

 

Yes. Basically it is an M48 hull that was modified.  It is said the gun could hit targest 10 miles away...don't know if that is far today, but it must have been pretty good in late 50's and 60's.  These vehicales were in service in other countries till the 1970's.  But only the USMC used them in anger.

Here is a link to more info....

https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.asp?armor_id=619

It was actually built on the M47 hull and drive train components.  The range was OK for the time, but not great.  The M110 8" howitzer that replaced it extended the range out 15.5 miles (25,000 m) with conventional munitions and to 18.5 miles (30,000 m) with new RAP (Rocket-Assisted Projectiles).  The biggest issues with it were the lack of traverse for the turret (only 30 degrees right/left), the driver being in the turret, and its hulking size.

This is quite nice build and not something we see too often. 

Nice job and thank you for listing paint mix.