Bronco 1/35 Chaffee

[wasdale32]

Bronco M24 Chaffee in French Indochina Wars.

Built out of the box - only issues were the drive sprockets as the instructions don't show the correct options for the early steel tracks so the links don't fit the teeth and I had to rebuild the sprockets!
A lot of detail omitted from inside the turret as the hatches are closed, Turret fit to hull not great so it ended up glued in situ.

I liked the unusual "tiger stripe" or "bamboo grove" locally applied camouflage.

 

[adt70hk]

Very cool!

 

[papa 695]

Nice work

 

[Gern]

Beautiful

 

[Ian M]

Nice one Mark.
It sure is a camo pattern you do not see every day. (kinda the idea with camo, but you know what I mean!).

 

[Jim R]

Hi Mark
That has turned out very nice indeed. Well done.
Jim

 

[wasdale32]

Nice one Mark.
It sure is a camo pattern you do not see every day. (kinda the idea with camo, but you know what I mean!).

I think it was intended more to confuse rather than conceal - a bit like the dazzle ships of WWI. The actual colours are total conjecture as the kit instructions just state "yellow" whereas contemporary B&W photos refer to "earth yellow" - I tried a couple of different tones against the green but decide the more intense yellow was needed to show enough colour - the paler version just looked white.

 

[Caustik Filth]

Wicked Mark, love the camo colours,looks great!
Cheers Rob

 

[Jakko]

Is this one of the tanks that were airlifted, literally in pieces, to Điện Biên Phủ?

 

[minitnkr]

There was a Panther battalion late in WWII that had a similar "..in the trees.." camo. scheme.