 All items, shields, gun barrels, recoil mechamisms, spent shell casings were made from plastic card, rods and dowels of various thicknesses. |
 Two
of the Airfix kits were essentially brand new ones while the third, in
the background above, was a kit I made in the 70s. The two newer
ones were made without their mine racks as per most of the pictures I have
of the M3 75mm GMC. I also left off the MG pulpit. These models,
without the drop-ins can be quite convincingly used as M3 (ie, not the
M3A1). The older model was one I had constructed as an ambulance
and done a miserable job of placing the decals so this project refurbished
it and gave it new life! |
 The
drop-ins in place. The actual M3 75mm GMC had a piece cut out of
the driver's front plate so that the gun could depress there. I declined
to do that here as I wanted to be able to use bothe the GMC and the M3
as needed. One model was made British, with a British crew and the
other with an American crew. The third I did with a covered tarp
of painted tissue. The bolts/rivets on the gun shield were made from
drops of white glue applied with a tooth pick. |
 The
US crew. The standing figures came from the Fujimi M-36 kit and the
gunner on the left is a reposed Matchbox US infantryman. |
 The
British crew are reposed Matchbox 8th Army figures. The loader is
supposed to be pushing a shell into the breach. What you don't see
all that well in any of the pictures, save perhaps the one of the drop-ins
outside of the vehicles at the top of the page, is the litter of spent
shell cases over the floors. |
