Bucha, Ukraine - 27 Feb 2022 - 15mm
Building the M1A1 Main Battletank (15mm Battlefront)
It’s the main battle tank that’s appeared on CNN more times than Wolf Blitzer and is as American as apple pie … except for the British armor, German gun, and Japanese electronics. 😐
That’s right, everyone, it’s the M1A1 Abrams, backbone of American armored hitting power since the mid 1980s. Upgraded with a powerful new 120mm smoothbore, new electronics, improved running gear, better armor, and modernized secondary systems, this is the machine that dominated the 1991 Gulf War, won the biggest tank battles we’re likely to see in our lifetime, and (or better or worse) became one of the symbols of America’s “Hyperpower Era.”
Here we build the 15mm plastic kit for the M1A1 from Battlefront. We discuss the options you have when building the kit, what pieces would be appropriate for which M1 variant and which ones not to put together, and briefly review some of the tank’s more interesting design features.
A good solid looking model Jim.
Thanks very much, @zorg! Yeah, overall it’s a great kit. 😀