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Monday, March 11, 2024

M24 by Heiser Models in HO Scale

Chaffee tanks lined up.
Standard markings on this one with metal tracks, and serial number at the rear and big white star on the turret.
This platoon has the weight limit sign on the front.
This one has CAV on the front.  By adding these markings it allows me to keep platoons together, light tank platoons had five tanks per platoon and 17 tanks per company with an HQ of two.
This is an HQ tank.
This platoon got a Jerry can on the turret.  It's called a Jerry can because Jerry was the British nickname for the Germans in WWII and the Germans invented the gas can by that design.  It was way better than the British gas can, nicknamed the Flimsy, which tells a lot about how poorly designed and built it was.
 

3 comments:

jeigheff said...

Those are nice little models. And thanks for the information about Jerry cans.

Remember "Battle of the Bulge" from 1965"? I imagine many of us do. The American Chaffee tanks in that movie were identified as Shermans! I find it interesting that the people who made that movie had access to lots of running Chaffee tanks in 1965, but not Shermans.

Legion4 said...

Yeah and the Krauts were using M-47s as Tiger IIs ...

Mike Bunkermeister Creek said...

Since the US was using M24s in the Battle of the Bulge, it would have seemed reasonable to me to just call them that.

As for the M47 as a Tiger II it's not a bad choice, since they are almost the same size and vaguely similar in appearance from a distance compared to other 1960s armor. The movie people also got a good deal on them with the Spanish government providing the tanks and crews!

Thanks for reading.

Bunkermeister