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.
 

Chaffee M24 Tank

Heiser Models HO scale, M24 Chaffee US Army light tank.

I made each platoon a little different, in this case the star is small and under the turret curve.

This one has rusty tracks.  Post war they developed a rubber track for the Chaffee.

Big white star on the turret.

This one has the star with the circle around it and the US Army and serial number on the center side of the sand skirts.

Center tank has the white star on the front lower glacis, the other four have the star on the top glacis.