M60/A3 calling this finished

[Leon]

Evening fellas.I don't usually start a second build until i'm done the previous one.Since i am waiting on the Fruils for the Scorpion,i thought i would start this one.Looks like a shake and bake in the box.I see no flash and just a few EPM'S.Plan on starting this tomorrow,so stay tuned in all you Armor junkies.

[bigjohn]

Hey Leon. I'm in bro! I have that same kit in my stash so looking forward to yours!

[Leon]

Glad to have you a long for the ride BJ.

[TRM]

Oh yeah...waiting on tracks...start a kit!! Waiting on dinner, start a...oh wait, that is how I have so many on the bench!! LOL!! Count me in brotha'!!

[Leon]

Glad to have you a long T .You have to stop waiting on so many things bro.

[paulh]

;)pulling up my seat, got my pop-corn, so its over to you leon
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[Leon]

Dang Paul,snuck in on me there mate .Glad to have you a long for the ride.

[TRM]

That's the problem....I don't "wait"...LOL!!!

[deafpanzer]

Please count me in. Can you please ask Bigjohn politely to leave his seat on first row? he is blocking our view!!!

[Leon]

Welcome aboard Andy .saved you a special seat in the front row buddy.

[deafpanzer]

Awesome! Thanks you are the best! But please don't make me hold hands with Bigjohn...

[Leon]

WE FROWN ON HAND HOLDING IN THE ARMOR SECTION BUDDY .SO YOUR SAFE.

[wbill76]

Nice little filler project while you wait Leon, looking forward to it!

[Leon]

Thanks Bill,glad to have you a long.

[Mence]

I'm in.

Tams M60s are quite nice but I think the suspension is a little lacking, depends on how far ya wanna go? I have the one with Reactive Armour part built, really must take another look at that..

[Leon]

Richard,glad to have you along.I'll have to keep my eyes peeled when you start the M60A1 ;)I built the M60A2 many moon ago,think it got discarded in the last move ???That was a sweet looking build.

Prof,welcome aboard mate.I almost bought the kit you have.Thanks for the info on the suspension.

[adampolo13]

I love the look of these tanks! count me in as well!

[Tojo72]

Should be a nice Tamiya build Leon

[Deleted]

great kit a real tamiya classic

[Deleted]

Don't you just love the turrets on these things, I'll be looking in.

[Leon]

Adam,glad to have you along buddy.

Tojo,i am impressed with the kit so far .Looks like very little filler and sanding.

Glad you like it Pete,got a sweet spot for the M60'S.

Mack,happy to have you looking in when you can .The turrets do look awesome.Built the M60/A2 ages ago and the turret looked like a space ship .LOL

[Leon]

Evening fellas,had planed on starting this today but the little lady had other plans for outside work .Guess it's a good thing as i don't have enough glue to get very far ;-|a trip to the LHS is in order next week for supply's.

[Leon]

Morning Guys,M60 build is under way.Suspension is glued on,return rollers dry fitted and drivers station assembled.If you notice just above the lifting points there is a small gap that needs to be filled and sanded.Should be a quick fix.Will post another update later as the misses wants me to build a small deck for our outside table and chairs.











Thanks for looking

[jackh]

Count me in Leon, always ready to follow the building of a cold war warrior like the M60. The Tamiya kit is an old but nice kit the only real flaws with this oldie should be the suspension as prof already mentioned the word around about it besides lacking some detail should be it sits to high apparently Tamiya measured on a empty M60 tank? In my humble opinion thats not a problem to be concerned about, it's just a model for Christ sake and it looks like a M60 but the other problem is worse, somehow Tamiya got the rear exhaust/engine ports all wrong there should not be any spaces see link:  and how it should look: link
Other M60 kit on the market have the correct rear.

[Leon]

Jack,glad to have you along for the ride.I see what you mean about the rear exhaust ports.I am thinking of getting the Verlinden M60 engine and compartment up grade for this.Looks like it comes with new intake grills,rear exhaust port and rear deck.

[Mence]

Aaaah, classic Tamiya, lovely stuff!

[robbo]

A nice choice of kit, two barrels too eh?

[Deleted]

I'm in on this one. I still love those old Tamiya kits.

[wbill76]

Nice start to this one Leon, a small deck doesn't sound like a bad trade for bench time!

[Leon]

Welcome aboard Prof.Classic Tamiya indeed,so far this is a joy to build .Very little flash and few EPM'S.

Good to see you Ian .Yes two barrels,one for Army version the other for Marine version.Not sure with one i am going to use yet.

Disorder,glad to have you along on this one.Been a long time since i built an old Tamy kit.