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Well, I have been guilty of not taking pics and contributing to this place like I should considering the stuff that I work on on the weekends 
We have been giving the M548A1 a face lift....the one in my avitar. A while back, Craig traded the guy from BMG parts 2, M49 rings for an M66 ring. The M49's had trolleys and all. When the M66 arrived, it had some broken parts and was missing some pieces. If you deal with this guy, watch it! Any who, I told Craig I'd fix it. I checked all over for a TM for the ring, but the one I needed was still a classified item. I found a copy, but before it could be sent off to me, the party wiling to send it to me was tragically killed in an accident where he was stationed, RIP DF. A set of ring mount legs was found and acquired. Time passed. Craig had some ROP kids come in and one of the projects that was decided on was squirting some fresh color on a few vehicles. The 548 being one of them. The students did an awesome job prepping the carrier. It was squirted with some fresh Cardinal paint in OD and finished with brown and black applied as per the paint and markings TM. We figured now was a perfect time to fix the M66 and mount it. On one of the trips out to the scrap yard, I came across a few M66 rings that were very heavily demilled, aka, torched. I took advantage of these demilled items by finding out how to disassemble the ring far enough to replace the items that were broken and unusable and acquire the missing pieces to complete the ring at the Museum. Myself and a new volunteer got the ring back together today and got it mounted on the carrier. The ring still needs squirting, but it looks AWSOME up there. I will snap some pics of the M1008 that the ROP kids painted and of the work to finish the half track I did the tracks and brakes on.
We have been giving the M548A1 a face lift....the one in my avitar. A while back, Craig traded the guy from BMG parts 2, M49 rings for an M66 ring. The M49's had trolleys and all. When the M66 arrived, it had some broken parts and was missing some pieces. If you deal with this guy, watch it! Any who, I told Craig I'd fix it. I checked all over for a TM for the ring, but the one I needed was still a classified item. I found a copy, but before it could be sent off to me, the party wiling to send it to me was tragically killed in an accident where he was stationed, RIP DF. A set of ring mount legs was found and acquired. Time passed. Craig had some ROP kids come in and one of the projects that was decided on was squirting some fresh color on a few vehicles. The 548 being one of them. The students did an awesome job prepping the carrier. It was squirted with some fresh Cardinal paint in OD and finished with brown and black applied as per the paint and markings TM. We figured now was a perfect time to fix the M66 and mount it. On one of the trips out to the scrap yard, I came across a few M66 rings that were very heavily demilled, aka, torched. I took advantage of these demilled items by finding out how to disassemble the ring far enough to replace the items that were broken and unusable and acquire the missing pieces to complete the ring at the Museum. Myself and a new volunteer got the ring back together today and got it mounted on the carrier. The ring still needs squirting, but it looks AWSOME up there. I will snap some pics of the M1008 that the ROP kids painted and of the work to finish the half track I did the tracks and brakes on.
He has the door window frames and cab bows. Carnac says he might have some parts. The only things we need to complete the carrier are the driver and passenger windows, the frames for them and the rear bow. A cab and cargo cover would be cool 
along with a few extra road wheels. If anyone has a lead on the aforementioned parts, PM me! I took some detailed pics of the windshield frames and the metal supplier around the corner broke the material for the frames. All I gotta do is miter the corners and weld them up. One of the other guys who frequents the Museum is a glass guy..also a SS member, DSD..is gonna cut and fit the glass into the frames after I get them fabbed up.
