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M3 Lee Lulubelle
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The Pup Learns. 
The Pup excels. 
Brokeneagle
Master at Arms
This is looking really good Bob!
Thanks Ian, now if I can just figure out where I put that fret of PE? 
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What lunatic leaves PE fret in the box the kit came in?
Rhino
Super Moderator
Aberrant model behavior to be sure. You're supposed to drop it on the floor and run over it with your desk chair wheels.What lunatic leaves PE fret in the box the kit came in?
I'm mixed about opening the doors on the engine or not. There was never a scene where that's done although the opening scenes are Sgt Gun salvaging a throttle cable from a knocked out tank. I'm building it up like I will.
Been sneaking out to the shed at lunch a bit.
got side panels glued in as well as the 75 mm housing. The mount and gun are not yet, something going on, can't get it to rest on the mount. The front glacis is dry fit and the alignment looks spot on this time. Recall on the first one I had to reset it a couple of times. Still some bits that will never be seen again to add inside then I'll get her button up.
You might be wondering where the ammo storage is that should be over the radio. If you go back to this scene.
The ammo rack aint there either. Remember I'm doing the movie star.
Then there's this.
It would appear they covered the inside with a blanket or something to cut down the glare from the white paint job. I did this on the Academy kit that got so close, will it be seen when done? Doubt it but I'm doing it.
got side panels glued in as well as the 75 mm housing. The mount and gun are not yet, something going on, can't get it to rest on the mount. The front glacis is dry fit and the alignment looks spot on this time. Recall on the first one I had to reset it a couple of times. Still some bits that will never be seen again to add inside then I'll get her button up.
You might be wondering where the ammo storage is that should be over the radio. If you go back to this scene.
The ammo rack aint there either. Remember I'm doing the movie star.
Then there's this.
It would appear they covered the inside with a blanket or something to cut down the glare from the white paint job. I did this on the Academy kit that got so close, will it be seen when done? Doubt it but I'm doing it.
The box to the rear of the door? I think those are the round Thompson mg mags and in the box are more 37mm rounds. I closed off all ready racks this time.
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RichB
Well-known member
They're the 50 round drums for the M1928A1 Thompson. Unfortunately, the kit looks like it supplies a M1 series Thompson. The muzzle brake is bigger on the M1928A1. The troops didn't like the drum. It was heavy, it rattled, was difficult to load (it had to be cranked to tighten the feed mechanism after inserting the rounds), and the gun had to be cocked and in the firing postion to install the drum. The British returned most of the drums supplied with the M1928A1 and requested the 20 round box magazines as replacement. The M1 wasn't designed to accept the drums.
But it's Hollywood, why let reality get in the way of the storyline.
Cheers,
RichB
If you check out the movie posters at IMDB you'll see the drum but one clip from the movie has the box loaded. Probably because the drum would have blocked camera angle of Bogart's face. Can't do that!
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Sahara (1943) - Photos - IMDb
Sahara: Directed by Zoltan Korda. With Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges. After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.
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RichB
Well-known member
That's a M1928A1 with the front pistol grip. Hollywood would of had those on hand from cop and gangster movies made before the war.
Troops didn't like pistol grip either, they broke off to easily. Some enterprising troops modified the pistol grip to fit the slide grip.
Cheers,
RichB
Troops didn't like pistol grip either, they broke off to easily. Some enterprising troops modified the pistol grip to fit the slide grip.
Cheers,
RichB
Just to note that the kit machine guns are not the pistol grip ones.
I think I said it here earlier that I was building the movie star tank. Well I changed my mind. I'm building the character Lulubelle, so to say. I may go back and add the ready rack over the radio yet, we'll see
I got the top dry fitted just to make sure everything is getting lined up ok. It is. Started working on all the PE on the rear deck, maybe someday science will tell us why a little piece of metal is more likely to stick tweezers than the other part we're trying to fix it to. Deck plates fit nice and snug.
I think I said it here earlier that I was building the movie star tank. Well I changed my mind. I'm building the character Lulubelle, so to say. I may go back and add the ready rack over the radio yet, we'll see
I got the top dry fitted just to make sure everything is getting lined up ok. It is. Started working on all the PE on the rear deck, maybe someday science will tell us why a little piece of metal is more likely to stick tweezers than the other part we're trying to fix it to. Deck plates fit nice and snug.
centaur567
Well-known member
Man, this is really turning out nice. Love the detailed engine. Gary S.
Greg Kimsey
Well-known member
This is looking fantastic! Love that interior 
Brokeneagle
Master at Arms
'stacks' of detail in this one......I love it. That a tonne of work on that interior MP. 
Honestly Ian that's all out of the box. This is a well detailed kit.
