Bulldog - 1:35 Tamiya M41 Tank DONE! Pictures page 3

Eugene Rowe

Cool!Didn't they use them In Full Metal Jacket?

 

They were also the American tanks in Patton. Ironicly enough the German tanks in the movie were... Pattons!

They were also used in loads of other shows and movies. Often foreign films since so many countries had them.

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BrandonK

To the best of my knowledge, the M41 never saw any combat in any theater. It was used solely between conflicts. I believe I have a book on it and that is where I found this out while building mine.

BK

 

...By the U.S.

They saw a fair bit of combat (with very mixed success rates) by the ARVN and a couple of other countries. 

To the best of my knowledge, the M41 never saw any combat in any theater. It was used solely between conflicts. I believe I have a book on it and that is where I found this out while building mine.

BK

The Marine Corps M41 in Full Metal Jacket was just for the movie, right?  I don't recall the Marines ever actually using the M41.  Is that correct?

I thought so!

Don't forget to add the hull lifting eyes on the glacis plate near the headlights.

Eugene Rowe

Cool!Didn't they use them In Full Metal Jacket?

 

Hello everybody!

Thanks a lot for your comments!

Good info on those New Zealand, Taiwan and Saudi tanks, I'll think about that.

Russ - how about that MERDC - is that how Koreans painted it? As for the economics I think I can beat you with 0$ so far - I got the tank as a gift and the tracks were leftovers!

And I also have some photos for you. Like Gino wrote I added the ribs at the sides, replaced some grabhandles with wire and I also replaced the headlight guards with sheet metal:

On the turret there's also still some work to do - I plan to replace the jerry cans with something more shapely, for example:

On the hull I have a better pioneer tool rack and I also have to add the exhaust for the APU (missing completely from the kit).

Thanks for looking and have a nice day

Paweł

Cool!Didn't they use them In Full Metal Jacket?

Yup, it's a fun, simple kit. I built mine as ARVN back in the early 90's

This is a fun kit, built by many younger modelers for many years. It looks like the quintesstial American Army tank, green paint and white star.

I hope you have fun with it. I bought one at Hobby Lobby for less than $10 last year.

Cool kit!  

Saudi Arabia also had some in a two-tone sand/green camo.

It's also a good kit to try stuff on. I was ready to paint an ROK M47 but didn't want to do something "new" on it so I pulled the Tamiya M41 out of the back of the case that I'd built a while ago and used it to try brush-painting the camo over green. Plus, I have $9 invested in the kit and AFV Club tracks, and it was fun:

IMG_3779 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

The final years in Alaskan US Army service was where they were painted white.  There is one at the Fairbanks NG Armory with 2 others at the Fort Greeley ranges where obviously one couldn't get close to examine them.

It is a good starter kit, but, as you said, needs lots of work to bring it up to current standards.  At a minimum, I would add the stiffening strips on the sides of the tool boxes.  A few small add-ons, but a big improvement.

As to paint schemes, pretty much all US versions were overall OD.  I have seen them w/a "whitewash" winter camo scheme and a large green triangle for exercises (can't find a pic now).

Taiwan used them until recently and had them in a variation of NATO camo.  

Taiwan Is Giving Up Its M41A3 Walker Bulldog Tanks After More Than Six Decades Of Service (thedrive.com)

Pawel

Meanwhile I would like to ask you for help - does anybody know any cool paint scheme for this tank? I could paint it OD with white stars, and I'm also thinking about doing it as an ARVN tank, but if anybody could point me to some camo scheme or winter exercise scheme, I would probably go this way.

So - thanks in advance for your help, and please stay tuned for updates.

Have a nice day

Paweł

 

I built this one back in '70. It was the motorized version but was lost in action in the great BB Gun Wars of 1972.

The beauty of modeling the M41 is that it was extensively sold to other countries so the camo patterns available are almost endless. 

There is a particularly interesting New Zeeland pattern I have considered for the kit in my stash.

There are loads of pictures just search M41 New Zeeland.