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| Subject: | Re: [Chapter] Overview of the Kits Used |  |
| Date: | Jun 11, 2007 |
| From: | Gerald Owens | |
AFV Club M3A3 kit is much nicer overall. The Academy M3 kit is well molded and poorly researched, unfortunately. Suspension sits too high, sponson side is too deep (though the sand skirts will conceal this). Vision slots on cupola are not lined up with each other (Eduard has replacement parts). Most of the interior is for an M3A1 and cannot be used. Gun tube is six scale inches too long, as early Stuarts had the gun tube shortened so it would not extend past the leading edge of the hull (early war designers were overly worried about careless drivers spiking gun tubes into things--the Panzer III had its 50 mm gun shortened for the same reason).
Formations does offer a resin lower hull tub that will let you mate the Stuart suspension set (sold separately by AFV Club) with the Academy upper hull. |
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 | [BLOG] Formations M5A1 Conversion - Martin Dogger - Jun 11, 2007 |
| . . . [Chapter] Overview of the Kits Used - Martin Dogger - Jun 11, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Overview of the Kits Used - James Wechsler - Jun 11, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Overview of the Kits Used - Gerald Owens - Jun 11, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Overview of the Kits Used - Martin Dogger - Jun 12, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Overview of the Kits Used [IMG] - Martin Dogger - Jul 12, 2007 |
| . . . Re: [BLOG] Formations M5A1 Conversion - Paul A. Owen - Jun 11, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [BLOG] Formations M5A1 Conversion - Martin Dogger - Jun 11, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [BLOG] Formations M5A1 Conversion - Terence Teo - Jun 11, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [BLOG] Formations M5A1 Conversion - Martin Dogger - Jun 12, 2007 |
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| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Inspiration for the model [IMG] - Martin Dogger - Jul 12, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Inspiration for the model - Martin Dogger - Jul 12, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Inspiration for the model [IMG] - Martin Dogger - Jul 12, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Inspiration for the model [IMG] - Martin Dogger - Jul 12, 2007 |
| . . . [Chapter] Suspension - Martin Dogger - Jul 13, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Suspension [IMG] - Martin Dogger - Jul 15, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Suspension [IMG] - Martin Dogger - Jul 15, 2007 |
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