Shenanigans 4: Italeri 1/35 M6 Gun Motor Carriage

[Guest]

A truly appalling kit. (…) My fault for buying a cheap and very old kit.

If you want to build a 37 mm GMC M6 anyway, you could buy the AFV Club WC 51:



and then add the Italeri parts for the gun and other M6-specific modifications to it. This should be an easy enough conversion, and AFV Club kits are pretty much guaranteed to fit better than 45-year-old Italeri ones

[Gary MacKenzie]

Hi Mike. It really was a big pile of pooh! I'm carrying on with the figures, to make up into a little vignette.

I have it's bigger cousin from Airfix , the Dodge Personnel Carrier - Series 8 - 08363-2 ( it contains the spare chassis for the smaller model )
Link to box art
It is not much better, i started it over 20 years ago and it is still only partially completed in its box.
The quality of the molds was not good.
Will however finish it one day and make a modern kit to put beside it as a comparison.

[Guest]

Jakko - Thanks for the suggestion. I think I've had enough of Dodges for now - broke anyway. I have a PzKfpw IV in the stash which I might try next.

Gary - Yes, very poor quality moulds, but it was the fit issues that defeated me. It looked like they'd mixed up parts for different versions. No amount of fettling could have made them fit - only major rebuilding. Life's too short.

[Guest]

I'm going to give up on this one. Can't be bothered with the figures either.

Tamiya PzKpfw IV in the offing. One I've made before, so hopefully.....

[Steve Jones]

Onwards and upwards Peter. The Panzer IV will be worth waiting for.

[JR]

Peter.
I'd just come in, only to find everyone is leaving, oh well that's a shame.
As to getting all wheels on the ground ! That's why I have rubble !
Can you imagine working as a reviewer on a magazine !!!!!!
John .

[Si Benson]

Oh that’s a shame Peter...onwards and upwards!

[Guest]

Keep going Peter - if at first you don't succeed etc etc chuck it back in the stash.
Cheers, Mike.

[Mike Mortimore]

Hi Peter,
Sorry to hear that the figures have been binned as well........ :sad-face::disappointed2::disappointed2::disappointed2:

As said else where onward and upward....... look forward to your next rendition...... I'm not a tankie..... but will look in on it when you start.........

Regards Mike :sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping::sleeping:

[SteveH]

Morning Peter

Perhaps 1:35 anything should be a rare treat, one at a time, for birthdays and anniversaries, perhaps the occasional Bank Holiday?

It both knackers your eyes and frustrates your building mojo with old, dodgy, cheap kits, because they are old and dodgy!

Even your Tamiya T 34 wasn't a success due to its age and motorisation from the "ice age"

There isn't a quick fix with kits, and the figures will always be small!

off to find Boney

Regards

Steve H

[Guest]

Hi chaps. Yes, sorry about this one, but I've learned my lesson - research the age of the kit first and as Steve says, limit the amount of 1/35 work I do. That said the Panzer IV kit I'm doing next is quite old, but I've built it before so know that it's relatively OK.