And that is the beauty of this hobby, each is free to build what they want how they want.
Ken
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Returning to this thread has anyone bought the ILK M55? Or anyone seen it on the shelf in a hobby shop?
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Yes.
The M55 and M53 entered my stash in August this year.
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I managed to bag it a couple of months ago at a model show; a relative snip at £60 I thought.
I haven’t done much with it yet save for a bit of positional tinkering:
That mantlet cover will need some attention that’s for sure (I’m thinking a complete replacement with Milliput or similar); NVA soldier figure only to indicate the size of the beast.
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Glad to see this is real and you all bought it. I wanted to see it on a shop shelf but I suspect the buy will be via the Internet.
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I think I recall you bagging that one Brian! Any thoughts on a scheme yet? Bundeswehr perhaps?
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Sorely tempted to do a Bundeswehr one I must admit; for years I yearned over such a beast appearing in 1:35 to replicate an image within this ancient little booklet - not much more than a glorified catalogue in a way - but full of info, and within was a pic of the gun in German finish:
In the interim decades, I garnered more info not least in this excellent Tankograd effort:
which nearly drove me to obtaining the Elite Modellbau kit:
That may well have turned out to be more resin hell, which I definitely need a break from(!)
Soooo, long answer, but I think I’ll portray this in US finish as depicted within yet another Tankograd book:
Olive drab and big white stars - what’s not to like?
There’s a couple of images showing the gun with stowed ktibags under a tarp so that might be do-able. The kit doesn’t come with the cupola-mounted MG which is annoying though I’m sure I’ll get round it somehow.
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I got that ROCO book back in the 60’s when I was a kid. It was a real eye opener on all the exotic (to me) AFVs. I still have it.
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Yup - I still have mine too; I must admit it blew me away when I first got it - I must have been around 13 or so. All those tiny photos and org charts in the beginning pages - both combining to make me dimly realise that I didn’t know very much at all!
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