Empress Miniatures Roll Out The M48 Patton
September 20, 2019 by avernos
Empress Miniatures has released a new resin and metal model of the M48 Patton for the Vietnam war.
The M48 was used extensively by both the USMC and the US Army throughout the Vietnam war, with over 600 being deployed in Vietnam from 1965 onward. Primarily an infantry support tank it was used extensively and performed well in country. When US forces began redeployment in 1973 many of them were handed over to Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and the M48 was still seeing service into the 1980s making it a very versatile tank for many periods and nations.
As you'd expect the kit from Empress is very well detailed with clean castings and all the requisite pieces to make an accurate tabletop model.
This kit also comes with the addition of a spare road wheel and track links that can be attached for a more unique version of the tank and an option for the 50cal to either pintle mount it or have it attached to the commanders cupola.
Once again Empress Miniatures have done a fantastic job and their range for the Vietnam War is expanding on a constant basis and well worth checking out.
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The spare bits are a nice touch. Plenty of new stuff coming from them, good to see.
ooh the German/American tank depending on what war film you love.
was the IR spotlight better than it looks?
Pretty cool. I’d like to see some helicopters and patrol boats too.
There’s my baby – the USMC M48A3. This upgrade of M48s would also be very useful in 1967 Six Day War, and in Indo-Pakistan wars where both sides used Pattons (leading to famous battles like: “The Valley of the Pattons” – albeit some of them I think were the older M47s). Moving into the 1970s and beyond, these would have been upgraded to the M48A5 which has the larger British L7 105mm rifle – these were used very heavily in the Sinai in 1973 Yom Kippur. In the photo we see the 90mm with the “T-bar” muzzle brake, which is… Read more »
That is a lot of detail for a metal/resin wargame piece. Very blimmin nice!