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Here's a 1:32 scale model of an M-41 Walker bulldog I built up. It is basically from one of the original kits that showed a painting of the tank on a blueprint floor (I think that was Renwall).
I also had a 1:24 model but didn't like it because the barrel was at a fixed elevation and some of the attachment items were too small.
Anyway, this is the 2nd one I have built as the first one got "played" with a little too hard. But I found problems with the accuracy of the model. I didn't do any corrections to the engine compartment because most people wouldn't see that the real tank had 4 batteries instead of 1.
But the blast deflector was all wrong, at least for the standard issue Walker I drove. The kit used a prototype blast deflector so I took two solid cylinders of plastic from a 1:24 model, drilled and glued them to look like the real thing.
Then the pioneer kit was way too small so I scrounged that off the 1:24 model and put it on the left fender (though it should have been the right fender). What they used for tarpaulin packs were merely little slabs of plastic. I glued two of them together to make the ammo box for the M-2 machine gun. I used the tarp packs and off the 1:24 model and their proportion on the 1:32 was amazingly close.
The M-41 (real one) had two machine gun mounts on top but we only mounted one gun for the TC. The other mount was actually for a spotlight. So a friend gave me a Navy signal light that was just the right size.
Now I had something that looked like a miniature of a real tank instead of a toy copy of a tank.
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