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  4. Looking for sources: 1991 USMC M60A1s

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    I think you will find out that most were A3's not A1's.Most A1's were gone by Desert Storm. If I remember correctly.

     

    Ronald F.Thorne Jr.

     

     

    This is incorrect. The USMC's tank battalions were still equipped with the M60A1 RISE/Passive during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. One battalion received the M1A1 Abrams loaned to them by the US Army (out of European pre-po stocks), the other tank battalion went to war with the M60A1. One platoon of Army M60A3TTS tanks was parcelled out to the USMC's M60A1 battalion to give them thermal night sight capabilities. These Army tanks were integrated into the Marine tank companies within the battalion. The M60A3TTS tank platoon came from the 197th Separate Infantry Brigade's cavalry troop (they had not transitioned to M1's yet and deployed with M60A3s).

     

    The USMC's tank force just amounted to two active duty tank battalions and one reserve component tank battalion during Desert storm. The USMC did not transition to the M1A1 until after Desert Storm, because their use of borrowed US Army straight M1A1s was temporary and they were not the "Heavy Common" version that incorporated the changes the Marines required to perform their normal mission.

     

    Besides the brief Desert Storm use, the USMC did not field the M60A3.

  7. Journal P-47 Decals

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    I think either kit that you already have will do fine. I agree the Tamiya kit is wonderful but if you're not looking for the "n'th" degree of accuracy and already have a kit in hand, go for it. Personally, I'd use the Monogram.

     

     

    Thank you for the input. I went digging through the stash and ran across the old Testors/Hawk kit. I'll use that one and since they also come in 1/72 scale (hadn't noticed it until you guys pointed it out), I may look to see if I have a small one to use or donate to someone who would like a 1/72 one.

  9. Journal P-47 Decals

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    Not being an aircraft modeler, I'd like some suggestions on which kit would be good to use the decals on. I think the only P-47 kit I may have in the stash is the old Testors or maybe a Monogram kit of a P-47.

     

    Accuracy of the kit isn't that big a deal.

  11. New Mak Tooling From Hasegawa

    in Space, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    I just wished they would get someone more fluent in English to translate the storyline. I remember building one of these kits (Fireball) that I bought from Squadron during one of their closeout flyer sales. If I had know the quality back then, I would have bought one of each type. It was neat to identify regular model parts that were used to make some of the kits. I remember seeing 1/48 scale OH-1 bodies as the armored torso and some of the detail parts were the round machine gun magazines from Tamiya's SAS Jeep.

     

    Ma.K Story 2882-2885

     

    An event was happened to change the conventional war situation greatly on June 15, 2883. It is an appearance of "AFS" (Armored Fighting Suit). "AFS" has brought a totally new tactics concept which gave a big military gains by the battle of each place. In these days, the survival of the employing mercenaries became rare in the earth armed forces and in the name of Mercenary Troops Arms, it changed in the armed forces which were gradually constituted on the earth by the draft or an applicant and gradually fixed the appearance of the earth official army from an original state in confusion.

     

    But Strahl Defence Force developed a new weapon against "AFS" in sequence and spent it and reinforced a contingent for them to protect their own country rights and interests on the earth.

     

    As a result, this war became the history that the both armed forces competed for new weapon development endlessly.

     

    I like this one, nice that they are matching the common military scale too:

    MKluna.JPG

  13. Okay All You Booze Hounds! Your Ride Is Here!

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    Looks good, a couple of comments on the build. The first one pertains to the kit itself. It looks like Trumpeter duplicated the error that Tamiya made in their original M113A1 kit. The cargo hatch release chain is located on the wrong end of the hatch (the cable looking strap on the top hatch). It should be on the other end of the hatch (side farthest from the hinge).

     

    Second comment is that the vehicle is a Nam era kit with Nam era markings but a modern day CIP panel (combat identification panel, the louvered panel on the right side of the hull) mounted on the hull side. We started using those in the early to mid 90s to help identify friendly vehicles when they were spotted in thermal sights.

  20. EARLY PEEK AT UPCOMING STAR TREK VOYAGER PROJECT!

    in Space, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    And,

     

    Let's not forget Seven of Nine guys. Those were the two highlights of the show, if you catch my drift ...

     

    Whereas the VOYAGER looked sleek - I think my favorite ST ships were the refitted ENTERPRISE and ENTERPRISE-A and the ENTERPRISE-C and the RELIANT.

    She was definitely worth watching the show for, the rest of the cast used literally the same dialog from one show to the next. I didn't mind listening to Seven of Nine babble about flux capacitors.

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