The advent of 3D sculpting and printing has led to the various 'rare' APC's being made available by enterprising sculptors - such as the M59 armoured personnel carrier, the US Army's frontline battle taxi from 1954 to 1961, which I needed several of for my ColdWar '58 project.
I was having trouble sourcing a model but David Manley came to the rescue finding this STL from Daritus on Thingiverse. Jim at Bristol Independent Gaming printed a bunch off for me.
As with the other US AFV's the models are painted basic olive drab with the I-94 Enterprise white star decals providing some relief from the green. Whilst quite basic (and not too dissimilar to the M113 that replaced it) I am really pleased with these boxy little models, just need to get on with the infantry to go with them...
Nicely painted up, Steve.
ReplyDeleteI vaguely remember an early Airfix polythene HO/OO APC that resembled an M75, or just possibly the M59. It wasn't in production for long before it was replaced by the polythene FV432. So I looked it up in the online Airfix catalogue, and there it was:
1657 Troop Carrier – (Not Airfix? – Used base of 1656 *which was the Pershing tank*) – 1965 2 – A
It's funny what triggers memories.
Regards, Chris.