Monday, 9 June 2014

Holding Patton?

Last year I realised that I had rather stupidly bought a load of GHQ M48's only to discover they were A5 models and not usable as IDF or Jordanian. I did convert one and this was reasonably successful but I must confess I am not too keen to do this to the remainder of the models, especially as GHQ has released an IDF Magach-3 version now.

Of course if I buy the Magach's the question remains what to do with the M48A5's? They were not a cheap purchase...

M48A5 as modelled by GHQ (photo Neil Baumgardner)
One idea is to use them for a 6mm eighties Cold War project. I have a number of GHQ Soviet models sat around but I am struggling to find out which NATO countries (aside from the US) used the M48A5 with the large commander's cupola as modelled on the GHQ model (many other - all? - nations seem to used the Israeli inspired low design).

Help anyone?
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  1. Jason9 June 2014 at 17:02

    I checked Wikipedia and several countries - Greece, Turkey, South Korea, Norway - used the A5 version. The article also says the A3 was the first to get the larger cupola. Then again, it's Wikipedia, so take with a grain of salt.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M48_Patton#Operators

    You could always just do some hand wavium and say that the U.S. exported Pattons to NATO allies to help bolster their own armored corps.

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    1. Steve9 June 2014 at 17:17

      All the NATO countries appear to have the small "Isreali cupola, so far I have found that the first 300 A5's had the 105mm gun and large cupola, after that it was the smaller one. So I will probably paint them as US Army early eighties in a MERDC scheme like the one in the picture.

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