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Work In Progress / Re: Project of the Month - March 2020 - Cadillac Gage V-100 Commando

« on: March 03, 2021, 07:39:50 pm »

Really great to see this iconic armoured car, but in Multimedia kit, so I pass my turn and will focus with pleasure on your plastic kits : centurion, M113, MUTT, T54 and BTR60.

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Wish Lists / a medical version of the M577

« on: February 28, 2021, 03:16:31 am »

RM is supposed to launch a M577 which is mainly an Headquarter version of M113 :

 Although the M577 was developed as a command post vehicle it was also used for other roles. Due to its large internal volume it was used as an armored ambulance, medical treatment vehicle, fire direction center and for other roles.

In U.S. service it appears that M577s were only used as emergency evacuation vehicles very early in their operation careers i.e. in the early years of the Vietnam War, and this role was soon provided solely by M113 "armoured ambulances", and the M577 was then only used as emergency treatment vehicles (e.g. battalion aid stations). However, when configured as an ambulance, compared to a M113 which could be fitted with up to four litters, the extra room inside the M577 allowed it to carry two additional litters i.e. up to a maximum of six.

As RM has shown us stretchers/litters options for his HUEY it could be easy to use these strechers for an armored ambulance version of their M577. So I propose a medical option for the future M577. IMO it will cost almost nothing more than just adding the HUEY'stretchers to the M577 box and adding red cross decals 

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Wish Lists / jagdpanzer IV L 70

« on: February 28, 2021, 02:08:04 am »

As Tracks pointed out in this thread "http://forum.rubiconmodels.com/index.php?topic=998.msg13865#msg13865" on the Topic: 1:56 scale StuG III, StuH, StuG IV, Jagdpanzer IV, Panzer IV/70(V) or /70 (A); it would be nice to have the jagdpanzer IV released next year why not ?
The Jadpanzer IV is one of my favourite WWII tank destroyer with the marder H... It would be great to have both of them released in plastic by Rubicon Models :

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Wish Lists / WWII marders

« on: February 27, 2021, 02:05:17 am »

It could be interesting to have the following marders kit :
marder H

and marder M:

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Work In Progress / Re: M40 Recoilless Rifle - 3D Drawings 210226 <--- NEW Project

« on: February 27, 2021, 01:51:38 am »

wow...that's GREAT.

IMO for the M113 it will be easy to add the M40 instead of  M60 machine gun as in this image :

but for the ford MUTT according to these images there are specific changes to be done to the standard M151 kit :



I hope you will make these changes in an option.

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Wish Lists / WWII british armored car humber mk IV

« on: February 26, 2021, 07:15:49 am »

The Humber Armoured Car was one of the most widely produced British armoured cars of the Second World War. It remained in service until the end of the war. The vehicle was used in the North African Campaign from late 1941 by the 11th Hussars and other units. It was also widely used in the European theatre by reconnaissance regiments of British and Canadian infantry divisions. A few vehicles were used for patrol duty along the Iran supply route. A British Indian Army armoured car regiment, partly equipped with Humbers, served in the reconquest of Burma.

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Wish Lists / Soviet, North Vietnam PT-76

« on: February 24, 2021, 08:36:50 am »

The PT-76 is a Soviet amphibious light tank that was introduced in the early 1950s and soon became the standard reconnaissance tank of the Soviet Army and the other Warsaw Pact armed forces. It was widely exported to other friendly states, like India, Iraq, Syria, North Korea and North Vietnam. Overall, some 25 countries used the PT-76. The tank's full name is Floating Tank–76 (плавающий танк, plavayushchiy tank, or ПТ-76). 76 stands for the caliber of the main armament: the 76.2 mm D-56T series rifled tank gun.
 

The PT-76 is used in the reconnaissance and fire-support roles. Its chassis served as the basis for a number of other vehicle designs, many of them amphibious, including the BTR-50 armored personnel carrier, the ZSU-23-4 self-propelled antiaircraft gun, the ASU-85 airborne self-propelled gun and the 2K12 Kub anti-aircraft missile launch vehicle.
A destroyed PT-76 during vietnam war :

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Wish Lists / M113 version : M150 and M901

« on: February 24, 2021, 08:13:47 am »

The BGM-71 TOW ("Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided") is an American anti-tank missile. First produced in 1970, TOW is one of the most widely used anti-tank guided missiles.It can be found in a wide variety of manually carried and vehicle-mounted forms, as well as widespread use on helicopters :

this ATGW has been used in vietnam.

The M150 is an army M113 with a TOW :

The M901 is an improved version:


As the Army already had an ATGM vehicle based on the M113 (the M150), the new weapon system was designated as the "Improved TOW Vehicle", or ITV.
The M901 ITV (Improved TOW Vehicle) is a tank destroyer introduced into service in 1979, and designed to carry a dual M220 TOW launcher. This vehicle played a major role in US armor and anti-armor strategy during the Cold War, proliferated to several other nations, and remains in service abroad to this day.

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Wish Lists / Re: M48A3 with Options

« on: February 24, 2021, 07:32:14 am »

yes IMO a plastic M48 would be great especially if we have the following options on top of the A3 version :



M48A5






and M48A5K (korean)

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Work In Progress / Re: Bell UH-1 "Huey" More Working Prototype Details 210223

« on: February 23, 2021, 05:11:51 pm »

ragggghhhhhhhh my bankster is dead......I want them all  ;Dll

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Work In Progress / Re: Bell UH-1 "Huey" Working Prototype 210222

« on: February 23, 2021, 01:12:39 am »

This is a must have. I will pick up 3 of them.
Is there any chance to have a UH-1N version in the near future ?

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Work In Progress / Re: Project of the Month - Feb 2021 - M551 Sheridan 210201

« on: February 20, 2021, 05:15:41 am »

On the RM's facebook almost all the comments for the sheridan ask for a plastic one. As far as I am concerned , all the cold war wishes I have posted are for plastic kits : T62, M48, M60, T72. In any cases I am ok to have the sheridan and the M48 both in plastic .

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Work In Progress / Re: M113A1 APC Drawings Update #3 210214

« on: February 15, 2021, 12:31:29 am »

fantastic ! 
M163 SPAAG is a good choice too. congrats RM

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Wish Lists / centurion mk5/2

« on: February 11, 2021, 05:11:27 am »

if it's still possible in term of process of development ii could be maybe interesting to add a 105mm gun to the plastic tree of the mk5/1 in order to have a CENTURION Mk.5/2 105mm NATO. The L7 105mm gun instead of the 20 pdr is indeed the only main difference between the two versions.

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Work In Progress / Re: US 75mm Gun on Carriage M2A3 - TS1 Plastic 210205

« on: February 07, 2021, 09:44:02 pm »

Originally a RESIN project, but we had turned it into a plastic kit.

Fantastic choice... power to the plastic!

Yes you are right Tracks power to the plastic I wish RM will make the same move for the sheridan M551. On RM's facebook and on this forum some people have mentionned their wishes to see this tank in plastic and not in pewter.

I know I know I never give up.....