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Finally redid the muzzle break and fume excavator more to scale

Green Giant,
Very nicely done!
regards,
Painless

Out of all the 1/16 scale tanks ... I would say the Walker is one of the most difficult to be inspired by.... you've done a great job Green

ALPHA

ALPHA, I think that's because HL made it the same size as the m26 when in reality it was smaller in all hull dimensions by about a foot, except for its height plus they didn't include the travel lock and made quite a few detail mistakes such as the ridiculous looking drivers viewing blocks and some of the turret top detail. HL did the same type of thing with it's Pantiger. Correcting all those mistakes is quite a job but I did it. It always was a good running tank but putting it in a war era is difficult. The US did send them to Korea at the very end of the conflict but I could find no evidence that it was ever in tank on tank battle. The US only used them in the USA, Korea and Europe after ww2 and only for a short time. Almost all production units were given or sold to and used by many other countries where they were in some cases modified enough to be effective light tanks until the 1990's. I think it would be more inspiring if it had been produced late in ww2 to replace the Chaffee. which it eventually did but only until years after ww2.
Painless, the trick is to remove the plastic shroud covering the aluminum airsoft barrel cut off the bore evacuator and slim it down quite a bit. also shorten it at its muzzle end by cutting out a piece but keeping the end ring. Build a new muzzle brake using a spare piece of airsoft barrel and slide it and the saved end ring into your new evacuator. The barrel and the new evacuator are kept from touching each other by the ridge inside the evacuator that used to be the stop for the plastic barrel shroud that is inside the evacuator. I'll post a picture of what the new completed muzzle brake looks like.