And now back to our regularly scheduled build programming…
Well, the back dating of the kit is now complete. I added the wire cage style brush guards to the commander’s and gunner’s periscopes, modified the sledge to reverse its positioning, and then added the hatch handles, rangefinder housing lifting eyes, and rear turret stowage bin.
Are you sure your M47 crew wants gasoline cans hanging off their stowage bin? Right above the engine and exhaust? I know that with the similarly designed M41 only water cans were allowed in that position.
Just asking.
I must just say that the “drums” on the T-34 picture are in fact smoke ejection canisters so not being fuel are not really hazardous (unless I’ve msised the point - not unknown) but the jerricans on the M47 turret were in their prescribed place; I always assumed though that they were water?
Yes that’s true but they are next to the engine. Anyone ever read about combat accounts of these fuel drums getting blown up and the after effects ? If they’re hit with small arms fire don’t they start leaking all over? Doesn’t seem to be an issue with the later Soviet tanks that had the fuel cells on the fenders…
The cans on turret sides are standard for M41, M47, & M48s, although I too wonder if they were fuel or water. The two types of can had different lids, but I don’t know how strictly that was adhered to, so what appears to be a fuel can might indeed be water. Of course the advent of diesel fuel in US tanks makes it less of a fire hazard…