Hi again
I know I know
"It's Honeycut with another danged Sherman."
Well so be it
This is the Tamiya kit which will hopefully end up as 3 AD France.
I tried some weld experimentation. (For those who don't know, the Tamiya kit shows the weld seams as sunken whereas they should be slightly raised above surface level, therefore resulting in filling these in somehow)
The method often used is thin plastic strip, which once softened with solvent can be impressed with a tool to simulate welds. Another, is to roll putty 'worms' and then the same tool used for welds. I happened upon string, whereas it was pointed out that the ////// shape was not weld-like, and therefore I searched further and came up with an elastic thread on a spool which had a |||||| shape to it. Some PVA wiped into the furrows and then the elastic thread carefully inserted once trimmed to size.


This pic of the glacis shows putty used for welds on the applique armour plates. Flat brass bar was used to make the siren guard, with fuse wire for the cable.




Brad

Off to another good start Brad.
Interesting that elastic, do you have a pic of it before you used it, so that we can get an idea of what you used?
Looking forward to see the progress on this one Brad, judging by this starter it should be quite a 'brass fest' when it's finished.

I will forgive you for building 'another danged Sherman', but how about painting it as a captured one... Nice three-tone camouflage...

** starts digging hole ***

Cheers
Henk

Brad,
LOOKING GOOD!
all have to try that trick next time when I need welds on a tank.

Cheers
Mike.

Hi Brad,

Nice work, where does the cable enter the hull? I prefer these welds to the others, nice detailed work as always.

Al

Gday Henk
Here is the spool close-up.



It is wrapped on a cardboard tube not dissimilar to standard cotton thread reels (ie same size)
I don't know how readily available this particular material is, but I'm sure your local crafts/haberdashery shop would stock something similar. I think the old cheese mentioned that this thread had lost it's elasticity somewhat, which probably aids in it sitting where you want it for gluing purposes.
Mike thanks for the feedback. As I outlined to Henk above, it is something worth exploring and if you have luck finding some it'll work for pah-lenty of Shermans be they older DML or all Tamiya...
Hey Al
I'll try and git a pic up, but the cable goes through a plug into the hull below the left headlight towards the left lifting lug. I don't know of any variance here, but from a couple of reference pics it looks to be the same spot.
Cheers lads
Brad

Hey Brad, some nice work there!
It's difficult to tell the exact texture from the pics but they definately look better than the one's you did with string, pretty convincing i'd say, and a massive labour saving technique for sure!
Excellent work on the horn too, a real beaut!

Keep up the good work,

James

That's a very convincing idea you have there Brad! At first glance it looks nowhere near like a strand of thread!

You can never have too many Shermans so please, bring 'em on!


Jeff

Welds look good. You can never have to many "danged" Shermans.

Doug