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Re: TORRO M16 Halftrack
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:00 am
by RKRC
Tiger6 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:56 am
RobW wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:43 am
Technical question, how do I get the guns etc out of the back? I've not had a look recently, but remember not seeing any screws etc.
I'll bring one in pieces to the next club meeting - it's not an easy process and the wiring to the 50 Cal's is just enamelled wire that breaks real easy.
Could you perhaps be persuaded to post some pictures of it??
Re: TORRO M16 Halftrack
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:26 am
by Tiger6
At one point I had a full teardown post on a forum somewhere out there on the interwebs, but the 'Great Photobucket ransom scheme' put paid to the pictures.
I'll see what we can do...
Re: TORRO M16 Halftrack
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:55 am
by RobW
Thanks. I can always take pics of mine once I have somewhere to work - hopefully this year....
Re: TORRO M16 Halftrack
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:06 pm
by RKRC
It would be great to have pictures for when you end up having to take it apart yourself
Re: TORRO M16 Halftrack
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:25 pm
by RKRC
Re: TORRO M16 Halftrack
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:53 pm
by Ratrace
Verrrrrrrry nice.
Re: TORRO M16 Halftrack
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:23 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
RKRC, I, too, find your work on this M16 to be a fine improvement. As I was looking at the photos, I noticed that the driver's facial features suggest African-American heritage, although his skin is a bit too light. (That wouldn't surprise me, as my 1/18 "Red Tails" P51 Mustang came with a pilot painted as a white man. Sheesh! I fixed that fast.) I wonder if any African-American WWII soldiers got to drive M16s. I should have a book to dig about in. Now let's see... where was that book...?
Then, too, I remember the passenger who came with the Torro M16: his face and gesture make him look as if he is yakking away, driving the driver nuts!
Re: TORRO M16 Halftrack
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:41 pm
by Tiger6
Herr Dr. Professor wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:23 pm
RKRC, I, too, find your work on this M16 to be a fine improvement. As I was looking at the photos, I noticed that the driver's facial features suggest African-American heritage, although his skin is a bit too light. (That wouldn't surprise me, as my 1/18 "Red Tails" P51 Mustang came with a pilot painted as a white man. Sheesh! I fixed that fast.) I wonder if any African-American WWII soldiers got to drive M16s. I should have a book to dig about in. Now let's see... where was that book...?
Then, too, I remember the passenger who came with the Torro M16: his face and gesture make him look as if he is yakking away, driving the driver nuts!
I always took them to be highly racist depictions of buck toothed, slack jawed hick's from the sticks...
Re: TORRO M16 Halftrack
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:46 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
Hmm... I see your point, Tiger6. My ignorance and sense of humor (and experience with my family
) led me to put a better construction on the driver and passenger.
Re: TORRO M16 Halftrack
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:46 pm
by RKRC
He looks darker in the pictures than he is, but must be guilty of answering whether there was such a driver on the M16....
I also have his codriver but plan to use him for another project
