Help what Tank is this? (1 Viewer)

[Ragnar]

I was given this Tank a few years ago from a family member had forgot all about it {hidden for the last few years behind other hobby stuff}.
Anyway i would like to paint it but realy have no idea what tank it is i guess its from WW2?

 

[uksubs]

Looks like a US Stuart tank

 

[Ragnar]

Many thanks.....The machine gun on top did look American to me..just could not place the tank.

 

[lancer]

Looks like a US Stuart tank

Most definitely correct, sir. -- Al

 

[noli-poli]

Early M3 Stuart it is. You can paint it either US or Japanese as the latter used captured tanks from the fall of Bataan on April 1942 and later deployed to Japanese garrisons around the South Pacific islands.

N-P

 

[Ragnar]

Thanks guys now that i know what tank it is i found this one on the net.

 

[binder001]

As mentioned, it's an M3 light tank. These tanks were used by the US Army early in the Pacific (including the fall of the Phillipines), by the USMC on Guadalcanal, by the Austrailians in New Guniea, by the British in North Africa and by the US Army in North Africa as well as by training units in the USA. Add captured US M3s used by the Japanese and by the Africa Korps and you have quite a few choices in painting and marking this tank.

Gary B.

 

[uksubs]

As mentioned, it's an M3 light tank. These tanks were used by the US Army early in the Pacific (including the fall of the Phillipines), by the USMC on Guadalcanal, by the Austrailians in New Guniea, by the British in North Africa and by the US Army in North Africa as well as by training units in the USA. Add captured US M3s used by the Japanese and by the Africa Korps and you have quite a few choices in painting and marking this tank.

Gary B.

The British used them in Normandy with the turret removed for rec work

 

[Wraith]

Funny, I was watching a documentary on the Military Channel a day or so ago, based on the N Africa war, and which tank should turn up on an archive clip there, but 'Tiger 16'. I've got this Figarti piece but always assumed it was for the Pacific theatre.