Cold War Armor Rebuilds
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2024 6:47 pm
I’ve got a few of these going on at the moment… on days when I’ll be airbrushing or whatnot I’ve been upgrading or correcting a few of my older builds.
I thought that I had been able to post this one on here when I started it, but I can’t find it if I did. So, apologies in advance if I had previously posted this one on here. This is Dragon’s M26A1 Pershing, that I built as a new release back in the mid 90’s. The build came out nice enough, but this was done in the days when I didn’t gloss coat before decals, or seal them in afterwards with a flat coat, so the decals had lifted off crumbled away over time. I also painted it in the wrong color, as I found out later that USMC Pershings used in Korea were taken from Army stocks and did not have time for a repaint from OD into USMC Green due to the urgent need to get them into battle. Also, apparently I never got around to taking a photo of it by itself in original configuration… the best that I have is with my completed Dragon stablemates of T26E3 WWII Pershing, and Korean War younger brother M46 Patton. The M46 was essentially an upgraded M26A1 with a new power pack, and some other detail differences… the M26A1 I’s reworking is in the center here
So first I cut off the fenders to match what is shown in photos of these tanks in Korea during the Winter of 1950/1951.
Then I repainted the tank into AK Real Color Olive Drab
Next up was a gloss coat, followed by new decals from Star Decals. If you don’t know about this company they make a wide range of decals for Armor subjects in most of the major scales.
and today I sealed that in with a flat coat….
these decals will not be flaking off like the kit decals did…
next up for this one is some stowage and weathering…
I thought that I had been able to post this one on here when I started it, but I can’t find it if I did. So, apologies in advance if I had previously posted this one on here. This is Dragon’s M26A1 Pershing, that I built as a new release back in the mid 90’s. The build came out nice enough, but this was done in the days when I didn’t gloss coat before decals, or seal them in afterwards with a flat coat, so the decals had lifted off crumbled away over time. I also painted it in the wrong color, as I found out later that USMC Pershings used in Korea were taken from Army stocks and did not have time for a repaint from OD into USMC Green due to the urgent need to get them into battle. Also, apparently I never got around to taking a photo of it by itself in original configuration… the best that I have is with my completed Dragon stablemates of T26E3 WWII Pershing, and Korean War younger brother M46 Patton. The M46 was essentially an upgraded M26A1 with a new power pack, and some other detail differences… the M26A1 I’s reworking is in the center here
So first I cut off the fenders to match what is shown in photos of these tanks in Korea during the Winter of 1950/1951.
Then I repainted the tank into AK Real Color Olive Drab
Next up was a gloss coat, followed by new decals from Star Decals. If you don’t know about this company they make a wide range of decals for Armor subjects in most of the major scales.
and today I sealed that in with a flat coat….
these decals will not be flaking off like the kit decals did…
next up for this one is some stowage and weathering…
