I like it, we should do a fun project every now and then. Does anybody remember the DC comic book the "Haunted Tank" ? It was in the 60's(damn I am old) the crew's tank was a Stuart, some where along the line the original tank was badly damaged and was resurrected as a "Frankenstein" tank with all sorts of bits and pieces from other tanks. Your build has given me an idea ! Thanks again !!!!

Intereasting "What if" whats the turret and barrel come from?

Isn't that a Verlinden turret? A Hyper velocity 60mm autocannon that was mounted on the M113 by the IDF and possibly on something like the Sherman by someone in South America? Or was that just the gun mounted on old tanks?

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Intereasting "What if" whats the turret and barrel come from?

Isn't that a Verlinden turret? A Hyper velocity 60mm autocannon that was mounted on the M113 by the IDF and possibly on something like the Sherman by someone in South America? Or was that just the gun mounted on old tanks?

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Hey Fred,
It looks kinda like the Stuarts that the Brasilians rebuilt, the Bernardini X1A:
jjumbo

Hey Fred,
It looks kinda like the Stuarts that the Brasilians rebuilt, the Bernardini X1A:

Bernardini Stuarts

Cheers

jjumbo

Supper Stuart, I was expecting to see some sort of self propelled field kitchen based on an old Stuart chassis. Nice job.

There was some discussion on the Fine Scale Modeling armor forum and also on the AFV News forum regarding the old Haunted Tank Frankenstein conglomeration. Someone even remembered the issue and the configuration. http://cs.finescale.com/forums/9744/ShowPost.aspx

There was even a new comic book released recently about a new Haunted Tank, this time, an Abrams http://newsarama.com/comics/080725-HauntedTank.html

Very neat looking tank there! I bet they wish they had one as well! What base Stuart kit did you use?

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Very neat looking tank there! I bet they wish they had one as well! What base Stuart kit did you use?

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Hey Jim

The upper hull was made up from Tamiya's m3 and M5. The lover is from the M5, but lengthened .

Wolf

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Very neat looking tank there! I bet they wish they had one as well! What base Stuart kit did you use?

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Hey Jim

The upper hull was made up from Tamiya's m3 and M5. The lover is from the M5, but lengthened .

Wolf

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Hi Wolf! Thanks for the info. I had a less than gratifying experience with an old Tamiya M5 Stuart recently with the hulls not fitting together at the front and the tracks not fitting too well under the side skirts. I would like to build this tank but I don't want to go the Tamiya route again I don't think. Where did you get your lengthening instructions from or did you figure it out on your own? I have a copy of Modeling the M3 and M5 and according to it Tamiya missed the mark on about everything in terms of even remote accuracy. It appears to be quite a job to get everything right. If you bought everything to make it correct in terms of conversions it becomes an expensive little project. It's such a neat little tank though and makes a good contrasting display to many of the German tanks which dwarf the thing. It shed some light on how brave the crews were.

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Very neat looking tank there! I bet they wish they had one as well! What base Stuart kit did you use?

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Hey Jim

The upper hull was made up from Tamiya's m3 and M5. The lover is from the M5, but lengthened .

Wolf

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Hi Wolf! Thanks for the info. I had a less than gratifying experience with an old Tamiya M5 Stuart recently with the hulls not fitting together at the front and the tracks not fitting too well under the side skirts. I would like to build this tank but I don't want to go the Tamiya route again I don't think.

one day Im gonna model the tank from the movie"Tank Girl"..I swear it ...everyone needs a pink tank with swirls in their collection..lol

one day Im gonna model the tank from the movie"Tank Girl"..I swear it ...everyone needs a pink tank with swirls in their collection..lol

Once again, thanks for thi info, Wolf. So, with such a big turret what did they do to allow entry and exit for the drive? Was all that done stractly through the turret hatches? Or did they have to rotate the turrtr to a different position to clear the fron entry? I'm not familiar off the top of my head concerning interiors, but I know some vehicles were pretty cluttered inside so all positions may not have been accessible.

Fitz: Thanks for the heads up on the AFV Club kit coming out. I was so bummed with the Tamiya kit because the paint came out so well, I had bought a corrected resin mantlet and aluminum barrel, an antenna from Formations, and the tracks finished up nicely. I had dry fit everything before hand and it looked like all would go together so well.

Surprise! Surprise! It was not to be!

Besides the gap in the hull, the tracks rubbed the side skirts hard enough that one split at the glue seam. I don't think a motor could have turned them at all. I may revisit it down the road, but for now it's just put away in the salvage box.