Academy's M-10 Gun Motor Carriage
Started 5/03/05 - Finished 8/26/05
built for Garry's Tank Destroyers Campaign.
updated with new photos 4/1/06
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This build is lightly weathered, and has minimal equipment on it as I've not decided its final look yet. It is Painted with a basecoat of Model master Olive Drab AnA 613 then an oil wash followed by a light coat of MM Faded olive drab. The turrent tie downs were sanded off and new ones were made from wire. the canvas is scratchbuilt from tissue paper.
M-10 GMC
"An anti-tank vehicle, having good mobility and satisfactory firepower was urgently needed in the early 1940's. The design and development was rushed and accepted in September 1942 and put into production. The 76mm Gun Motor Carriage M10 featured a M4A2 medium hull with semi-open turrent, flattened top of the hull and reduced armor to save weight. It was propelled by a GM6046 12 cylinder, twin diesel inline engine. Standard M4 series vertical suspension(VVSS) with 12 road wheels was used. The main armament was a 76mm M7 gun on M5 mounting that can fire up to 15 round per minute. The pentagonal turrent can rotate 360 degrees and the rise can vary between -10 and +30 degrees. A total of 54 shells could be transported and it used armor perforating shells, (AP), high explosives (HE), or smoke-producing round. A .50 caliber 12mm machine-gun mounted on the back of the turrent for close range protection. With a crew of five, the fully equipped M10 weighed 33 tons and approximately 5000 units were produced." Quoted from the Academy directions.
