United States Main Battle Tank M1A1 AIM

Derek Engelhaupt
Now that I have started the kit there are a few more notes. The turret bustle rack is actually molded too long for the turret by about a 1/4". Had to shorten it by hacking some material out of the right side. The barrel also doesn't sit where it should stock. If you mount it by the directions the barrel will be sunken into the mount and appear to be really short. Both of the headlights are supposed to oriented the same way with the big clear light on the right side of the of the housing. The kit has the big clear light on the outside of both lights (one left and one right). One of the housings needs to be flipped 180 degrees to be correct so that both lights are mounted in the same direction with the larger light on the right side of the housing (both right). For being an M1A1 AIM version, there should only be a gas cap on the left rear of the tank were the generator should be. The extra door detail should not be there as the extra doors are for the M1A2 where batteries replaced the generator. In that case the fuel cap should be removed. The tank needs one or the other and not both.