Customer Reviews

1/35 US M41 Walker Bulldog

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For anybody who would love to start Model building on Military vehicles, I would recommend this. It gives exclusive detail into paint and should take you less than five days to build. I do not recommend using spray paints as it says because it gets messy and complicated. With the weathering kit this model looks even more beautiful. I'd say this is a great model for anyone who wants a cheap, easy, beginners model. I also recommend buying Tamiya's German Panzer 3. It is also a great starters kit.

This is a great tank to start with if you want to build models. Its cheap and simple. Do keep in mind this is a model and you have to put it togeother and paint it your self.

Should have known for the inexpensive price that this would be a quick build! Model goes together easily, no suprise for a Tamiya Kit though. They tend to be about the best.

This is one of the few Tamiya kits that were issued in the 1970's that you find priced for its age - around $12.00 - $15.00, depending on where you buy it. Kits consists of about 50 parts and, YES, you do have to put it together. This is a fair representation of the M41 tank. Remember, this is an older kit, so accuracy may be questionable for you purists. Kit hull has holes in bottom for the little motor that used to come with Tamiya kits in the 1960's and 1970's. Overall fit was pretty good. Instruction sheet has a very lengthy development history of th M41 tank as well as any medium tanks in U.S. inventory. When I bought my kit, it was missing about 4 major parts. Wrote to Tamiya as per the instruction sheet and I am still waiting for a reply. That was about 10 years ago. Overall, as other reviewers stated, this is a great kit for young people to start building if accuracy and detail is not a problem. You also recieve a tank commander figuer as well as 4 additional infantry figures. Decals are provided for U.S. Army and Japanese army (comes in handy if you want to make a Godzilla diorama with this kit). If you want a more detailed, modern, state-of-the-art kit of the M41 tank, then you will want tha kit that AFV released a few years ago.

I'd never realized the Bulldog was such a small tank. In size, it appears to be on par with the early war German panzer 3s and 4s. Never the less, this was a fun quick build. The molding is pretty good and thus there is little taping or holding in place for the parts to cement together. Although you will need some putty to fill in a few areas. I suggest you watch Full Metal Jacket while building this kit as there are several bulldog tanks in the movie.

Enjoy!

I have to say this lit has been around and around for many years and keeps popping up everywhere. It is and will remain a favorite of mine although this kit is unbuilt as yet, I applaud the reviews from the other model builder as they give it a fair shake. It is not a complex model so for someone like me who builds more complex kits and modifies them into somewhat more complex and detailed models this kit offers a bit of relaxing the traditional. A simple kit for a quick build and airbrushed with high gloss OD it will look like it is off the showroom floor. A far cry from the rest of my models that are war torn and dirty. (ref to my gallery)