M 29 heavy tank

[Martin H]

Its been a while since I lasted post a finished build here.

Here we have an M 29 heavy tank of the 12th U.S. armoured division some ware in northern Europe circa 1945.



And here it is again along side its intended prey.........


What we have here is a Cromwell models "combat ready" resin model of the T 29 experimental heavy tank.
The Hull, running gear and tracks are a single casting...and i have no idea how the hell they do it.

As you can see in the 2nd shot, its larger than the King Tiger. It was intended to take on the big cat as the US army didn't think the Pershing was up to that job. So they took the basic M 26 and then scaled it up to this monster and its 105mm gun. Apparently the war in Europe was over before the T 29 was ready for production, and the Army wasn't to keen on using something so big against the Japanese for some reason. So it remained nothing more than a prototype.

All I need now is a suitable name in keeping with the American tradition of naming tanks after Generals

[lenny100]

its got to be Custer
the last stand of the super tank

[cthulhu77]

+1

[Vulcan7]

wow Top tank, that King Tiger has had it! 

[NARSES2]

""What we have here is a Cromwell models "combat ready" resin model of the T 29 experimental heavy tank.
The Hull, running gear and tracks are a single casting...and i have no idea how the hell they do it""

Well that's 2 of us who don't understand how they do it Martin, nice piece of work, and Custer works for me as well.

Now did the US Army name it's tanks after Generals before or after the Brits started using Stuart, Grant, Lee etc ? I seem to recall all early US tanks just had a difficult to phathom numbering system ?

Chris

[ChernayaAkula]

Wow! That's one big beast!

[lancer]

Very nice indeed Martin.

[sotoolslinger]

Ultra cool  What a monster

[Martin H]

Well it is Big and rather brash, So calling it the Custer does kind of fit the Bill. And with early cold war service on the cards my dad has coined the knick name "The Commi knocker" for it LOL

[Captain Canada]

Nice work, Martin ! Add another one to the 'tanks I've now seen' pile !

[chrisonord]

I like this, very nice piece of kit.
Here is a real one
http://www.peachmountain.com/5Star/Tanks_Patton_Tanks_M29_tank.aspx
Chris.

[Brian da Basher]

Well done, OGL! I really like your paintwork on the Tiger and the shade of OD you used on the "Custer". What paints did you use>

Brian da Basher

P.S. If you want to name if after a "big and heavy" U.S. general, you could call it the Shafter or the Winfield Scott.

[Martin H]

Cant remember what paints I used on the big cat (most likly from Humbrol thou), but it was tamiya Olive green on the M-29, the tracks are Humbrol 53 (Gun metel).
The marking are off the old Matchbox M-24 Chaffee.

[Mossie]

Great model Martin, quite a beast!  Don't know too much about 'targets' so it's good to see something I knew nothing about.

[Sisko]

Very Very nice mate!

I love some of the big super heavy allied tanks.

It would be nice to have some 1/35th scale kits of them.......that don't cost an arm and a leg.