The driver’s hatch is movable and the periscope in the hatch is posable. The many storage boxes and air cleaners on the fenders went together easily, and the separate handles are a nice touch. The fenders and their brackets are appropriately thin. The seam lands along natural joins or is hidden by the fenders. The lower hull sides extend all the way up the upper hull is just the glacis, driver’s hatch area, turret race, and engine deck. A flat coat sealed the paint and pastels before I added the tracks to the suspension. I painted them with Tamiya flat earth, then applied black pastels to the rubber pads. The well-detailed one-piece vinyl tracks join with a metal pin.
I painted the lower hull with Tamiya NATO green before attaching the wheels. The three-part drive sprockets feature lightening holes.
The inner wheels are single parts, but the outer ones have separate tires that include the lip of the wheel and provide more detail on the visible part. The breakdown of the road wheels is unusual. Takom’s new CM-11 features one-piece vinyl tracks that join with a metal pin, photo-etch (PE) details, clear plastic vision blocks, and decals for four vehicles.Īfter adding the road-wheel swing arms to the lower hull, I checked alignment with a straightedge. As a development of the Patton, the tank is designated M48H, with the H standing for hybrid. Known as the Brave Tiger, the CM-11 mates an M60A3 hull with an M48A3 turret mounting an M68 105mm gun, the type used on early Abrams. The army of Taiwan (formally the Republic of China) uses a unique hybrid tank.
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