We also kept a 155 ammo tube strapped on the left side.

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Tell us more about your choice of paint and the colors that you used. It looks spot on.

G

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I used Model Master Acryl colors that matched the corresponding FS colors for the MERDC paint scheme.

MM Dark Green #4726 - FS#34079
MM Olive Drab #4728 - FS#34087
MM Armor Sand #4711 - FS#32077
MM Flat Black #4788 - FS#37038

I first spray painted the entire model Dark Green, then sprayed on the Olive Drab, and then the Flat Black. I hand painted the Armor Sand since there was so little of it. I also touched up some of the other colors by hand where it was needed.

The pattern is the standard Winter, US & Europe, verdant. This can be found in David Doyle's M551 Sheridan in Action.

I hope this helps. If not, let me know what else you need to know.

Dave

Question why the PRC77 on the TC cupola?

MM Olive Drab #4728 - FS#34087

you can notice the Academy hull road wheel alignment being off. I guess they never heard of measure twice cut once.

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MM Olive Drab #4728 - FS#34087

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Wayne,

Just noticed I listed the wrong color. It should be
MM Field Drab #4708 - FS#30118

Sorry, the other color is what I used for the various equipment add-ons.

Dave

Looks like the terrain at NTC.

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Looks like the terrain at NTC.

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Thanks Todd. It was meant to depict the terrain around Fort Bragg, but it does look a little like parts of the NTC.

Dave

I'm looking at your post almost 8 years after you posted and your Sheridan looks great. Especially with the Academy kit which I personally like. It may be a little out of scale but when it was released, it was all we had as the 1st Tamiya Sheridan was out of production and it too was out of scale. The new Tamiya Sheridan is so much better. I do want to make a comment based on your time period of the kit since I was assigned to the 82d Abn during the '70s. The armor battalion was the 4/68th Armor and not 3/73 during the '70s. We did not change until around 1984 when the 4/68 became the 3/73d. The bustle rack was the single bar rack that had a net that held equipment and laced into the rack and attachments on the rear of the turret and the color for the majority of the tanks were OD and not the MERDC camo until after 1975. Sometime around then is when the M551A1 with the LRF was fielded. Just some useless info. One final comment. The old CVCs began to be replaced to the style similar to the current one being used today around 1973.