M3A3 Stuart (1 Viewer)

[Phantom Warrior]

The model arrived late yesterday and I think it's a winner. It's K&C quality at the good end of the quality spectrum. The weathering is well done - not overdone. There is good track and track pad detail and little detail obscuring mud in the tracks. The road wheels are completely cut out - you can see right through them to the ground underneath the tank. The rounded barrel shape and details (air holes) on the .30 cal MG is excellent. The figure is in a good natural pose with realistic facial features (looks better for real than in the advertising photo) Even the tank markings are appear correct and represent an HQ tank (diamond on turret) of the middle regiment (white "52" on red square and yellow colour of the diamond) -5th Royal Tank Regiment of the 22nd Armoured Brigade of the 7th Armoured Division (Desert Rats)




Terry

 

[uksubs]

Look very nice Terry

 

[Mitch]

very nice tank. Thanks for the pics Terry. I will be getting one of these now. Its actually about time the wheels on K&C AFV's began to get more detailed and, its also good to see holes to represent detail than black paint marks. Hope this is something K&C will continue.
Mitch

 

[Guy]

nice little tank
guy

 

[jager7080]

Terry ,

Very nice indeed...Got to say the Stuart is in my top three favorite allied tanks...

Joe

 

[TomNT]

Nice pic's Terry and I agree, the detail on the Stuart and tank commander is very good. I also like that the road wheels are completely cut out and I wish K&C would do that for all there AFV's.

Tom

 

[wayne556517]

Yeah great Pics Terry and it is a good looking model,but wasn't Allied Armour Butt ugly but effective.

 

[Panzer ace]

Yeah great Pics Terry and it is a good looking model,but wasn't Allied Armour Butt ugly but effective.

Good call Wayne. Allied Armor gets a -7 for aesthetics and a +10 for success.

 

[PanzerAce1944]

Looks like this tank has some excellent detail to it, hopefully satisfying those who did not like "Track Mud" in the past. This Stuart looks :salute::"Clean"

 

[WesternOutlaw]

K&C did a nice job with the moderate weathering. Overall, a nice piece and it's neat to see a Desert Rats vehicle in the non-traditional tan paint scheme. Thanks for sharing.

EDIT: Interesting to see this bad boy as part of the D-Day collection. I need to do a little reading on its use after the Noth African campaign.

 

[arnhem44mad]

Got this piece last month its lovely!

Scott

 

[jazzeum]

Thanks for the review. I may have to break down and get it ^&grin