Hey all!
Does anyone know of a resin or injected turret and top for the Airfix Waterbuffalo kit? I'd like to do a different version for the Saipan/Guam landings and can't seem to find it. There's a resin kit of the LVT with a 105mm towed artillery piece on top, but that's not what I'm looking for.
Any assistance is mightily appreciated!
-andyh
As no one else has picked this up . . . From memory the turret was the same as used on the M3 'Honey' tank, a model of which is available from J.B.Models, now I think marketed as part of the Airfix range (old stock may be marked J. B. Models). The rest would be down to research and plasticard, but the turret is the hard bit.
Regards
Mike
What you are looking for is either an LVT(A)-1 or an LVT(A)-4. The former has a modified M5A1 light tank turret (NOT an M3) without the radio bustle; the other one has the complete turret with some modificaitons from an M8 75mm HMC (M5A1 chassis with an open turret on it).
Some of the British companies do them - Cromwell I think - but converting one from an ancient Airfix 1/76 scale kit would be a chore.
Cookie Sewell
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