Group Build 1.0 Tamiya's Vintage M48

So we're back from the dead, dozens of half built kits sitting everywhere in the room having been molested the past year or so. It's just so hard to get the old airbrush going again. Some of the various unfinished projects are here...

 A Venerable Dreadnought

 Tamiya's venerable KV-1B

A very frustrating build of PARC Models' Soviet T-18/ MS-1

It comes as no surprise then that this group build was meant to be simple to get stuff going again, which is why we went Tamiya. Unfortunately for some strange reason we picked the M48A3 kit, which undoubtedly should build into a respectable kit right out of the box. However, things aren't quite so simple now is it?

THIS Tamiya M48A3

There's a very good article by Paul Budzik on this relatively simple build. You can read that awesome article here

So of course off we went browsing for a particular version to build and finding ways to improve the kit whilst being efficient (lazy) at it. I decided to build a six day war version of this tank, the few dozen or so that were up gunned as well as if there wasn't enough trouble I was getting myself into by reading Paul's article.

This is my reference, M48A3 105 L7 in 1967

You have to admit, that's a good looking tank that may just be worth the trouble. Here we go then... once more unto the breach...