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There have been several Hotchkiss APCs up for sale lately with one of the sellers advertizing that he has spare parts as well. They were used a good bit by the W.Germans in the 1950s(?) and 60s. Not sure if they ever saw combat with anyone's Military. They are a neat machine & (kind of) grow on...

Thanks for the replies guys. Since this thread, I've purchased one of the Wagner spray guns & painted my ferret. Looks good enough for Gov't work.....:). Later on this week, I'm going to use same gun on my house-though a different color will be shot......... I have...

Similar for my ferret Mk.1/2........ I'm in the reassembly phase of the resto, now.. Matt

That's the great thing about wheeled armor.......And texas! Matt

Guys Thanks for the useful replies. I sprayed a little "light stone" mixed at home depot today through a wagner power sprayer (no longer have a pnumatic capacity). The parts of the ferret that I sprayed came out looking real good...

Was curious to know if anyone on here has used the wagner (or other brand) airless spay guns that are sold in the big box stores for painting a vehicle? I've used them to paint a house but not a vehicle. When I had access to one, I was using a pnumatic spray gun & got great results with it...

Wait...........You're not supposed to do that?!!.........:oops: ;) Matt

Thanks guys for the information. I'll probably wind up ordering them one at a time over an extended period to save on over all costs given the price of tires (&tubes) these days. This won't be a problem because the vehicle they're going on isn't road ready yet anyway...

Guys Well, I guess I could (or should) have posted this in the M715 & WC forums as well considering the tire size. I was wondering where is everyone getting their 9:00X16 NDT tires (& tubes) these days? It's been a very long time since I needed any but now that...

Would be curious to know if that's possible. I don't think it is being that it's American & an AFV. Remember all those M3 Stuart light tanks that were found in S.America a few years back? Not a single one of them was allowed to come back in...

Interesting how this thread came back to life after been dormant for so long. Matt

' Think the Americans are doing the same. It's much more economical then actually putting a crew in a real MBT and sending them off to train. Much less wear & tear on the MBTs as well. The Canadians had some of the Leopard 1 driver trainer tanks and one actually made it onto a well known...

I'll try and post a few (Sorry, computer caveman here). Matt

' Think I'd like one of your leopard 1 tanks. Maybe the driver training variant with that funky turret. Matt

That sure would be, Ahab. Be sure to post it when you're finished.:wink: :lol: Matt

An obersvation about M38A1s weather armed with recoiless rifles or not is that they were in service with so many armys and for so long that there is a color/configuration to suit most tastes.... Matt

Thanks, Frank. I didn't want to confuse people with the idea that the windshield (on the M38 anyway) was a two piece affair such as on the MB/GPW. I know about the travel lock. At least on the M38/A1s it (the lock) was low enough that the rifle rode horizontal and I guess you could fit the...

All the M38s & M38A1s that I've seen sporting 106mm RRs have had the split windshield-that is to say there was a "loop" in the windshield frame for the barrel of the rifle to poke through. The G838 (M151) series versions did not have this mod done to their windshields for some reason...

Is that for anything "Military"? I thought the Form 6 was only for armored stuff. Matt

M561s are like m151s in that they come with a demill order. So what ever's out there is out there. The reason why (or so I'm told) was that someone was killed off roading (?) a 'Goat years ago. Their family sued the Gov't & won. The Gov't in a knee jerk reaction, decreed "no more goats to be...