How was the sherman tank to operate in those days?!
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Haaha-just joking
Super easy! 
Ken
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I remember the old Gut Truck. Pulling into the Motor Pool. Good times. 
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Would you be willing to sell your interior kit? I’ll pay any asking price. Seriously. I went to the Hobby link and they’re out of stock
You’ve got a PM.
Looks good, but way too clean. It needs some weathering.
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Wow! Very nice!
I could tell you hilarious stories for days about the issues we had with tracks. One in particular, it was so old that everything was broken. The trans crapped out and the motor blew. About 3 weeks later (amazing for the Army), that crew received another track. This thing was brand new out of the box from storage. I looked like a shiny new car to us. EVERYONE was crawling over it checking out all the stuff that worked on this one but not on ours.
Yeah; I remembr we received three new M113A3 tracks from depot and everyone was inside them, looking at everything. SI think the feature of having a “steering wheel” instead of the two levers was mind-blowing to many. Same with the external fuel tanks and the two "closets’ on the side instead of all of it being open.
If anyone is interested, I found this for Verlinden M113 interior kit with engine on eBay
With this kit having the engine, I absolutely could not resist buying it regardless of the price. I was wondering how I was going to mock up an engine for my model
Unfortunately, it is pretty much a copy of the Academy interior sprues (C and E sprues; they can be found on eBay), which are very nice. Nothing is really better or more complete in the Verlinden set.
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I would just use the Academy engine sprues, like @HeavyArty mentioned. The engine deck is pretty much the same across the entirety of the family from the M113A1 onwards. The only one that’s different were the early Vietnam era variants that used gasoline-powered engines.
M113A2 Diesel engine.
There’s a good forum thread on the Armorama archives about the main differences betwen the M113 and M113A1 that will help out.
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So how long would it take to burn through it’s ammunition load?
I came across this video during one of my forays through you tube. I imagine it would be good against suicide drones and possibly cruise missiles.
https://youtu.be/pb5_F4_Eod8
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That’s pretty impressive. I can imagine this is standard 30x173mm STANAG ammo, used by most NATO countries, including the US. Looks like the rounds detonated at a distance of 5 meters, spreading shrapnel that took out the drones easily.
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We don’t have anymore time to spend on this threat.
Yes sir. My apologies for taking up everyone’s time. I truly appreciate all the helpful information.
Many of us have learned something new from this topic so no time has been wasted.
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