M46, 6th Tank Battalion, 1951. The Patton Project Pt.I

[Stuart]

Those tracks were well worth the effort - they look awesome Carlos, as does the rest of the build.

[Medicman71]

Wow. That built up quickly! Looks great. I really want to see how you paint it.

[Stikpusher]

So I took a long pause on this trying to decide how I was going to approach painting the turret. Particularly if it was yellow or OD on top, and far around the rear the yellow went. So I looked for any photos that I could find of 6th Tank Btn. during this time frame. And after looking and looking again at them I noticed several things. Turret top color could be yellow or OD, but then afterlookng at many photos, particularly this one with many in it, some construction details appeared. They all did not have the right side turret stowage rack. Also many had a Browning M1919 .30 cal. placed into the standard .50 cal. pintle mount because the .50 had a second one installed over the gunners roof periscope for the commander to use. Lastly, there look to be grab handles welded onto the turret bustle sides.



So I removed the side rack, retextured that area with a grinding bit in my Dremel, added the grab handles, modified the original pintle mount to accept a .30 from my spares bin, and opened up the antenna mounts for some music wire antennas...

Before





After







And then yesterday I airbrushed on a base coat of Tamiya Flat Black in preparation for the painting







More to come soon...

[LyleW]

That is looking very good.

[speedgraflex]

Beautiful!

[Floki]

She looks really mean all in black! I really like the touch of .30cal.

[mostrich]

Very noice!

[Stikpusher]

Lyle, Bruce, Clint, and Torben, thank you. I’m taking it one step at a time on this one... but not too slowly.

[Medicman71]

Very cool! I love the look of a .50 on armor.

[Stikpusher]

Yeah, there is nothing quite like the Ma Deuce... nothing else quite like it... so much fun to shoot!!!