It is an American machine gun crew set. It is a familiar weapon of the Allied Army in various movies, dramas, battlefield photos, etc., for it has a characteristic shape of a machine gun with a thick cylindrical water-cooling device around the barrel. I think it was released relatively early in the master box kits.
I can’t say the quality of the attached decal is good. However, I am thankful to include such a decal in the kit.
The figure’s face mold is perfect, but I will try to replace it with resin heads. I think it looks like a somewhat younger soldier than the original heads.
I cut the fishing weight to stabilize the figure to fit the space around the butt.
It is a cool pose, but the M1917A1 Browning machine does not have a water-cooled tank. In the box art, the tank was drawn, so I wanted this part to be attached. So I built a water tank from Tamiya’s accessory set. Make a water hose that connects to the machine gun’s barrel with a 0.5 mm brass wire, and add the lid and chain from the stock parts. It is a little detailed upgrade.
The master box painting instructions are hard to understand; I painted the uniform by referring to the TV drama, Combat, or Band of Brothers. Also, this box painting was helpful. When I painted with khaki, drab, olive drab, flat earth, dark yellow, and sandy yellow, it became like a US uniform.
The bullet belt was partly painted metallic colors.
M1917A1 Browning Heavy machine gun is an improved M1917 developed in 1917. It is a long-standing weapon that was used until the Vietnam War. Water-cooled machine guns have difficulty securing water on the battlefield, affecting mobility. We have experience in using the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.
I painted the wool watch cap on the figure, replacing the head in olive drab.
I want to attach insignia decals to every figure model like this machine-gun kit. Because it is somewhat troublesome as the data creation and coloring are not so good if I make the original decals.
(13-Apr-2017)
I am interested in models of tanks, airplanes, ships, military figures, I build them little by little when I feel like it. I am also interested in the history of war. My starting is Tamiya’s Military Miniature series in elementary school.
From elementary school through university students repeatedly suspend and restart my modeling, it’s about 25 years of this hobby’s history.
From February 2007 I was quietly doing a site called “Miniature-Arcadia”. It is being transferred to this blog with the same name from December 2016. My update pace is uneven, but please come to see me here occasionally.
