Corrective footwear 
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Another question on water cans. The Panda kit has a bracket for the loaders side- but not one for the TC side. From the pictures I cannot see if crews carried a can on the TC side or not.
On the black and white image that @Delta21 posted; you can see there’s a fuel can mount as well, it’s safe to say there were on both sides.
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Great pics of .50 cal.Always hard to see where the cables/Wires attach to.
Richard
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Ok thank you— well Panda only gives you one bracket - and one can- for the loaders side.
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Since there is no bracket on that side on the real vehicle you can just source a watercan fron the early Tamiya accessories set.
This set will also give extra kevlar helmets, ruck sacks, other goodies.
Just like our M1A1s we mounted spare track and a road wheel on the left and right side of the turret bustle. Since the straight M1s didn’t have a rear bustle rack they will have to be mounted where I marked with yellow.
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Damn, I miss being on tanks … 
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Me too 
By the way, you’re going to have to ditch the Panda tracks that come with the kit. They top of the tracks that contact the roadwheels are wrong.
About the oil/water cans: if you look at the photos posted above, on the left (loaders) side of the turret is a can with a mount, on the right (TC) side there is no mount, however, a can is often stowed there, as in the photo.
Ken
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Ok thanks, so Panda got it right, no bracket on TC side.
I have the TRex T 156 set, have not really started work on them yet.
I have a stash box with all that stuff and probably a few of the Tamiya sets- got to have bench time to work on it first…
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You should be set. I have the Panda kit as well and will be doing my beloved D-21. I also bought the Eduard photo etch set. It adds a lot to the kit.
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So you were on the one in the photo with the snow camo? When were you there? I was 2/64, 1981-82.
Ken
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Yep, I was in 2nd Plt, HQ Plt, D Co 3-64, 84-86, and D Co, 3-64, HQ Plt, 2nd Plt 90-92
Tony
My babe D-66 in 92.
Me on the turret front slope of D-21. Not sure who took the picture. 2nd Lt. Lapham (a.k.a., Spring Butt 6) on the back of the turret. Lol
- Note: no Muzzle Refrence System (MRS). Ours was turned in for repair but never got it back while I was on the vehicle.We just boresighted as usual. As gunner we shot 991 in TT-VIII.
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Oh yea. The MRS on the 105mm was not much good anyway, too loose, and on the 60s we didn’t even have one.
Ken
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