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15mm M18 Hellcat

I have the  Operation Unthinkable boxed set containing the American and Soviet tanks. The GF9 Operation Unthinkable boxed set, the American versus Soviet, contains 21 tanks. Two of these are the M18 Hellcat.

The M18 Hellcat is a tank destroyer used by the United States Army in World War II and the Korean War. Despite being equipped with the same main gun as some variants of the much larger Sherman tank, the M18 attained a much higher top speed of up to 55 mph by keeping armour to a minimum, and using the innovative Torqmatic automatic transmission.

This is the GF9 finished model.

This is the sprue.

The model goes together quite easily. I like how the track sections are complete parts.

The turret was a little trickier, but got there in the end.

I gave the model a white undercoat.

The next stage was to paint them, using Army Painter Army Green Spray.

The next stage will be painting the tracks.

More Operation Unthinkable

One of the Clash of Steel Starter Sets have been on my wants list ever since I found out about them at the beginning of the year. I ordered Operation Unthinkable boxed set containing the British and German tanks.

I decided I would add to the game by ordering the other Operation Unthinkable set, which contains American and Soviet tanks.

In the box, as well as the rules, counters, and dice, are twenty one tanks. 

For the Americans you get

  • Two T28 tanks
  • Two M18 Hellcats
  • Three T29 heavy tanks

The Soviets have

  • Six T54-1 tanks
  • Three IS-3 heavy tanks
  • Five ISU-130 SPGs.

Here are the sprues from the box.

What I didn’t realise was that the T54-1 model can also be made up as a T44 or a T55 as the different turrets are included. This gives even more flexibility over just using them as T54-1 tanks.

I thought that these would make ideal models for gaming scenarios from the Hot War series of books by Harry Turtledove.

This is the Operation Unthinkable Workbench.