Excellent reference photos! Thanks for sharing, Dan!
Even though Dragon’s is the only game in town, you can kit-bash like I did - using several kits that were collecting dust in my stash. Still WIP though..
I DIYed the turret by adding Evergreen plastic rods and some 2-part magic putty:
Impressive!
I’m thinking that another company needs to make a slick 60. There seems to be a interest.
I’ve been asking Takom for years bc they just need a new turret. Their other kids already have all the other parts.
Of course they have been ignoring all the pleas and rather release Nazi stuff..haha
It would seem they are close to it having made a M60A1.
A while back I built the DML offering. After adding a new mantlet cover, gun tube, and TC cupola to replace bad parts it came out OK. A ton of stowage hides the rather weak “bulge” contours of the turret rear…
Looks excellent Brian!
I think you’d have to add the grunt phone on the fender, but that might be it.
I haven’t broken the cellophane yet. It may have one.
Where is this?
Is at the VFW Post 4100 in Water Valley, MS.
11535 MS-315, Water Valley, MS 38965
Pardon the thread-jack, but why do they call these early M60’s “Slick”?
Edro
To differentiate it from later versions; A1, A2, or A3.
Because they are a plain M60, no A1, etc.
No, what I mean is why use the word “Slick” to describe or differentiate the plain, no A1, A2, or A3 versions?
Inquiring minds want to know
Edro
UPDATE:
-Ok, I decided to confer with my know it all AI and according to it, the term ‘Slick’ is Army slang, something meaning ‘clean’ or ‘uncluttered’ and may had been used to describe the smooth uncluttered appearance of the early M60 turret. As a USMC tank crewmen, I wasn’t aware of the term as applied, further Marines never used the “Slick 60”. So there was never a need for further differentiation. From my perspective, I only knew them as just early M60s, and personally I thought these had the M48 turrets -That is, until I joined this site and found out that there were some differences in the shape of the rear section of the turret. And which made me scrap the M48 turret I used to convert a Tamiya M60A1 to an early M60, and replace it with a resin M60 replacement. But I just wanted to know where the name came from
Edro
Slick in the Army also is a slang word for a younger soldier.
Also, the M60 with no extra letters/numbers is uncluttered by them, thus the name is more “slick” compared to an A1 etc. So it’s not just that the turret shape is “slick” - the name is too!
