So so happy to finally have the M48 in plastic.... it's a little wild it took this long to get one, the tank is used in so many conflicts, Arab-Israeli wars, Vietnam, Indo-Pakistan conflict, not too mention all the NATO forces that had it in inventory.
Loved the video @AllMiniaturesGreatandSmall! Can't wait for the next video man! I see you Built your M48's with the G503 Turret Lifter for the Commander's Cupola. As Fog of War points out, The Kit is an early production M48A2 Brought up to the Later Production and M48A3 Standard as it still had the Cast Hull but has 5 Return Rollers instead of the original 3 Return Rollers, as well as the Raised Engine Deck to accommodate the Newer Engine. The Kit Also has Parts for Israeli, South Korean and an entire Section is even Dedicated to Build it as an M48A2C from West Germany including the Gun Mantlet, the Gun and an MG3 Machine Gun. Let me know what you think about this and I'll catch you in your next video man!
It looks like the kit has parts to make the m48a5, the m48a2c, the m48a2ga2, some of the parts to make the Taiwanese m60 with the m48a5 turret hybrid vehicle, and some of the parts to make the west German m48 super Patton upgrade. Maybe this means these vehicles are coming to team yankee, and hopefully this means there will soon be a new all plastic kit for the m247 sergeant York.
Yeah I got some Tamiya Superthin it's a complete gamechanger. I'm *never* going back to those needle dispensers which will wreck a part if you squeeze too hard.
The build shown on the box seems to be an M48A3. With parts inside to make the Israeli and German M48s at minimum, so the potential for not just checkpoint charlie, but 'nam, oil wars and Team Yankee are all there!
The parts are clearly in the box for the M48A5: there are 105mm gun barrels with and without shroud, as well as an M60 GPMG for use on the conventional-hatch cupola.
@@bronco5334 The parts for it does make that yes but the vehicle shown on the official box is an M48A3 with the extra vision slits under the commanders machinegun turret and the 90mm cannon.
@@bronco5334 confusion abound, mu apologies, yes that does also mean the USMC/National Guard can have M48A5s and the Fermans their M48A2Gs for team yankee
@@spamuraigranatabru1149 Actually, I just realized that it technically CAN'T be correctly used for German M48s: I was only considering the engine deck and the cupola equipment. But the German M48 variants were based on the M48A2, which has only 3 track return rollers, this kit only has track parts with 5 return rollers, and does not have the option of replacing the engine deck with the earlier gas-engine version, meaning it can only technically be used for the M48A3 and sub-variants based on the A3 (to include most, but not all, A5 variants). The German M48A2GA2 has 3 return rollers (being based on the A2), though it also could have track skirts that would conceal the return rollers, so the model could still be made to work with some plasticard scratch-built track skirts. I also think we're missing the correct searchlight for the German M48A2GA2, but it's a simple rectangle, so easy to scratchbuild. Some M48A5 also had three return rollers (being rebuilt from M48A2s), and I know for a fact that Spanish M48A5E1s and M48A5E2s, and some Korean M48A5K have three return rollers, but I'm not sure what proportion was 3-roller, versus what proportion (if any) of the Spanish tanks were 5-roller. I know some of the Korean ones had 5, so there was both. The Greek M48A5s appear to have been all been 5-roller. Turkish M48A5 appear to have all been 5-roller. US National Guard M48A5s came in both 3- and 5- return roller configurations. Norway also had at least some 5-roller M48A5s. The biggest problem is the German tanks: they only ever had 3-roller M48A2 variants; they locally upgraded M48A2 to carry the L7 105mm cannon instead of buying M48A5s. Battlefront gave us the right main gun, cupola, and commander's machine guns for the German tanks, but they gave us the wrong tracks and no track skirts to conceal the incorrect part of the tracks. They really should have made the tracks 3-roller tracks, with the 2nd and 4th return roller as separate pieces to be glued on to turn them into 5-roller tracks (as the location of the rollers were not altered between variants, they just completely removed the 2nd and 4th from the M48A2 and left the rest in the same place)
Nice model EXCEPT the headlights. BF's molding techniques seem to consistently produce some exceptionally ugly headlight housings on basically all of their plastic tanks.
So so happy to finally have the M48 in plastic.... it's a little wild it took this long to get one, the tank is used in so many conflicts, Arab-Israeli wars, Vietnam, Indo-Pakistan conflict, not too mention all the NATO forces that had it in inventory.
Loved the video @AllMiniaturesGreatandSmall! Can't wait for the next video man! I see you Built your M48's with the G503 Turret Lifter for the Commander's Cupola.
As Fog of War points out, The Kit is an early production M48A2 Brought up to the Later Production and M48A3 Standard as it still had the Cast Hull but has 5 Return Rollers instead of the original 3 Return Rollers, as well as the Raised Engine Deck to accommodate the Newer Engine.
The Kit Also has Parts for Israeli, South Korean and an entire Section is even Dedicated to Build it as an M48A2C from West Germany including the Gun Mantlet, the Gun and an MG3 Machine Gun.
Let me know what you think about this and I'll catch you in your next video man!
Glad I found your channel. This was a cool video. The models for this game look like they are fun to build.
Definitely going to get Quite a few of these… I’m totally using them in Team Yankee
They will almost certainly be boxed and marketed specifically for Team Yankee in the next few months.
It looks like the kit has parts to make the m48a5, the m48a2c, the m48a2ga2, some of the parts to make the Taiwanese m60 with the m48a5 turret hybrid vehicle, and some of the parts to make the west German m48 super Patton upgrade. Maybe this means these vehicles are coming to team yankee, and hopefully this means there will soon be a new all plastic kit for the m247 sergeant York.
West German one had some short skirts which I can't see.
Interesting brand of glue. I'll have to procure some.
Similar, if not identical to the Tamiya stuff
Yeah I got some Tamiya Superthin it's a complete gamechanger. I'm *never* going back to those needle dispensers which will wreck a part if you squeeze too hard.
The build shown on the box seems to be an M48A3. With parts inside to make the Israeli and German M48s at minimum, so the potential for not just checkpoint charlie, but 'nam, oil wars and Team Yankee are all there!
The parts are clearly in the box for the M48A5: there are 105mm gun barrels with and without shroud, as well as an M60 GPMG for use on the conventional-hatch cupola.
@@bronco5334 The parts for it does make that yes but the vehicle shown on the official box is an M48A3 with the extra vision slits under the commanders machinegun turret and the 90mm cannon.
@@spamuraigranatabru1149 I didn't say it wasn't. I said that it now known there are parts to also make the M48A5.
@@bronco5334 confusion abound, mu apologies, yes that does also mean the USMC/National Guard can have M48A5s and the Fermans their M48A2Gs for team yankee
@@spamuraigranatabru1149 Actually, I just realized that it technically CAN'T be correctly used for German M48s: I was only considering the engine deck and the cupola equipment. But the German M48 variants were based on the M48A2, which has only 3 track return rollers, this kit only has track parts with 5 return rollers, and does not have the option of replacing the engine deck with the earlier gas-engine version, meaning it can only technically be used for the M48A3 and sub-variants based on the A3 (to include most, but not all, A5 variants). The German M48A2GA2 has 3 return rollers (being based on the A2), though it also could have track skirts that would conceal the return rollers, so the model could still be made to work with some plasticard scratch-built track skirts. I also think we're missing the correct searchlight for the German M48A2GA2, but it's a simple rectangle, so easy to scratchbuild.
Some M48A5 also had three return rollers (being rebuilt from M48A2s), and I know for a fact that Spanish M48A5E1s and M48A5E2s, and some Korean M48A5K have three return rollers, but I'm not sure what proportion was 3-roller, versus what proportion (if any) of the Spanish tanks were 5-roller. I know some of the Korean ones had 5, so there was both. The Greek M48A5s appear to have been all been 5-roller. Turkish M48A5 appear to have all been 5-roller. US National Guard M48A5s came in both 3- and 5- return roller configurations. Norway also had at least some 5-roller M48A5s.
The biggest problem is the German tanks: they only ever had 3-roller M48A2 variants; they locally upgraded M48A2 to carry the L7 105mm cannon instead of buying M48A5s. Battlefront gave us the right main gun, cupola, and commander's machine guns for the German tanks, but they gave us the wrong tracks and no track skirts to conceal the incorrect part of the tracks.
They really should have made the tracks 3-roller tracks, with the 2nd and 4th return roller as separate pieces to be glued on to turn them into 5-roller tracks (as the location of the rollers were not altered between variants, they just completely removed the 2nd and 4th from the M48A2 and left the rest in the same place)
Nice model EXCEPT the headlights. BF's molding techniques seem to consistently produce some exceptionally ugly headlight housings on basically all of their plastic tanks.
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