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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 01:29 AM UTC
When Dragon announced a series of new releases yesterday, the poster for this particular model was in a form that made it difficult to reproduce the images. Now, with a higher resolution poster being published it's a lot easier..
DRA6467 - M3 75mm Gun Motor Carriage will be a 1/35th scale variant of the 'Classic' M3 Personnel Carrier.

This particular variant saw service throughout WWII in many theaters and, as such, has many possibilities for different nationalities, settings and timeframes. In Europe it saw service and was present in the Pacific and North Africa.

About the images I've edited images for the 'New' compononents of this model - in particular the M1897A4 gun and the NEW compartment. The other details (particularly the suspension) will, i'd imagine be more or less the same as for the earlier M2 Personnel Carrier. As can be seen, the images are CAD which, as they say, are better than nothing..

Hopefully this release will hasten the M3 Personnel Carrier which will be very welcome indeed.
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Thanks Jim, I was just looking in British Armour in Sicily and Italy by Dennis Oliver and there are some good pics of the 75mm in action. The big problem as with all British vehicles wil be crew, don't suppose they could stretch to a gun crew !!!!! There is a great caption on the side of one 75mm that reads "No Water in RAD Petrol in Sump Oil in Petrol Tank Driver in Clink" Al
OCT 14, 2008 - 02:51 AM
Hey Jim, Nice to see another vehicle that can be made British and/or Commonwealth. This one's certainly going to make my KMC conversion set for the Tamiya M21 half-track obsolete. Now if only Dragon would release some Lend Lease variants of the International M5/M9/M14 half-tracks. Cheers jjumbo
OCT 14, 2008 - 07:10 AM
The M3 75mm must not be too far away if they are at this stage . this is looking to be a very sweeeet model I can finally use my "Yank" gun crew for this vehicle afterall .
OCT 14, 2008 - 11:12 AM
How spooky - I was looking at the same pieces in the same book on Monday evening and thinking "I wonder if DML will release this variant?" *cue Twilight zone Music*
OCT 15, 2008 - 04:30 AM
Does anybody know were i can find pictures of the actual thing? Thanks for the info Jim
OCT 15, 2008 - 05:01 AM
Wow! Good deal --- will save me the resin headache of getting into the Warriors/KMD conversion... Jim, do you know when this puppy is set for release? It'd make a great Christmas present. And do you know if there are any plans from Dragon to release the M2 GMC as well...? Maybe it is too similar, but I am hoping that they will release this version as well at some point. Thanks, Jim! One to look forward to. Regards and Aloha, Johnny B.
OCT 17, 2008 - 04:57 PM
I saw a pic of one of these with a couple of 50's set up on either side towards the rear. It was an impressive sight. Not difficult to scratch one of those when this beast hits the shelves. I gotta get myself one of these. Cheers Dave
OCT 17, 2008 - 06:22 PM
I highly doubt that, considering that it wasn't an 'official' variant and just one pictured vehicle exists that I know of . Having said that, if they were to make it my guess would be years down the road, limited run, available in a CyberHobby box for an extra $25.00.
OCT 18, 2008 - 02:48 AM
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