Hello Everybody and Happy New Year,

I was wondering what is the best kit out there to make a Canadian Stuart WWII.


Cheers

Ray

With no hesitation or doubt, the AFV CLub Stuart M3A3 or Stuart V. With or without a turret, you can build a large number of Canadian Stuarts will little extra effort. Get some Ultracast or QM Depot decals and you are away to the races (and I mean further than the Goulds, too!).

The Tamuya and Academy offerings are seriously flawed in shape and size so the AFV Club kit is the best of all.

Paul Roberts
President
Armor Modeling and Preservation Society

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the reply, The Tamiya M5A1 is that a good kit too? I think I'm going for the AFV Club model though.

Cheers

Ray

Oh Yea forgot I'm in St.Philips so the Goulds is not that far:)

Cheers

Ray

The Tamiya M5A1 is a fair kit, better than the M3, but not good. In order to use the lower hull from the motorised (ie bastardized) M3 kit, Tamiya sacrificed a lot of accuracy on the M5 as well. The lower hull should be longer and the shape of the bulged engine deck is off by quite a bit. Steve Zaloga and Cookie Sewell both showed how to increase this kit's accuracy a couple years ago in different issues of Military Modelling.

Formations has just come out with a resin conversion that uses the M3A3 kit plus the resin parts to make an accurate M5A1. They don't use anything form the old M5A1 kit, which indicates how relatively bad it is and how much better the M3A3 kit is.

Stick to the M3A3.

Paul