Revell M47 Patton Tank

[Shar2]

Before Dr_gn has a go at me for not doing a WIP, this was just a quick build with no thrills or AM, just to stop getting completely cross-eyed with etch.

Revell 1/35 M47 Patton tank in Croatian Army colours from the Balkans War.

[dr_gn]

Excellent airbrush skill, looks fantastic.

Strange how photo-etch becomes a necessity once you've used it once!

[Eric Mc]

Looks great - although I never know what I'm looking at when it comes to AFVs.

[mattmoxon]

Looks rather nice that.

[IroningMan]

Eric Mc said:

Looks great - although I never know what I'm looking at when it comes to AFVs.

Tell-tale for the M47 is the bizarre little jockey wheel at the back, which is absent from the smaller but similar M41 and lookalike Japanese Type 61.

Edited by IroningMan on Tuesday 2nd August 22:21

[Eric Mc]

Interesting that I hardly ever see Japanese tanks on display at club meetings or model shows. They are mostly German, British, American and Israeli. On the odd occasion you migbht see a French or Italian one.

[IroningMan]

There haven't been very many - only three designs of significance since 1945 and, because of the nature of the Pacific theatre, only a couple before that.

The wartime efforts are by-and-large rather odd-looking, and I'd guess that the relative lack of exposure of the postwar vehicles means they're not viewed as especially marketable subjects by the kit manufacturers - I think even Tamiya have only ever turned out a total of four kits in 1/35.