Wow, nice too see all the M32s. Go for so long without seeing any and then bam, hordes of them.
Excellent work guys.

Doug

yup you never find a towtruck around when you need one, and if you park for 2 seconds without paying , here comes the towcrew

strenght through numbers

greetz

for inspiration A new Kitmaker galary of a M4A1E8
Enjoy

http://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/15065

Who let Faust out who? who?
Who let the Faust out??

Héhé everytime they let the Faust man out of his cage, he starts to model or take intresting pics

thanks for taking the time Robert, it will come to be of use when building a M4 of that version


Greetz
Tha Pit

Hi all!
Completed my build of a Red Army M4 A2.
Tried to make it look like the Russian Sherman on the cover of the book' On the Bloody Road to Berlin'.
A good read.
Apologies for picture quality not used to my new camera yet.

Regards
Keith

nice job!
like the crew

I'd add some more dust to the track/suspension (pulverizing a major city makes a lot of dust )

Thanks for the comment, I will get to work on the pigments tonight!

There are some outstanding builds here already, so I shall lower the standard with mine .
Here is my entry for this campaign, Academy's Israeli M-51 Super Sherman that the Beloved bought me for Xmas (2 years ago ).
Built OOB on my week off, with a little desert base to sent it off. A very easy enjoyable build, which does beg the question on why I don't build more armour subjects as I do enjoy building and weathering them.
The main camo colour was Xtracyrilics and Xtracolour Israeli tank grey, with Mig pigments gulf war sand for the weathering.
Whether the kit or the paint is accurate I have no idea, as I have no references for it, apart from what I got off the web .
Comments welcome.
Andy


The pics have been uploaded to the campaign gallery.

nice one, how did the build go, no nasty surprises?

oh well we'll have to do with you 'standarts' of modeling

greetz

Well, I made a little more progress on my Tamiya 1/35th M4A3 105mm tonight.

Step 9- Assembly of the gun barrel and mantlet.
There was nothing out of the ordinary on this step. There were not any problems and a I don't have any recommendations for improvement.



Step 10- Assembly of the turret and installation of the 105mm gun assembly.
There wasn't anything out of the ordinary here either. I did have somewhat of a difficult time getting parts D30, G5, G6 and G22 properly positioned. There are very faint indentions on the upper turret body that are supposed to be guides for the installation of the parts. But, the parts slid around easily while I was trying to line them up with the locating indentions. In the end, I was successful.



That is it for today....

I have a nother small update tonight.

Step 11- Assembly of .50 cal machine gun and completion of turret details installation

Assembly of .50 cal:



The mold lines on the parts for the M2 .50 cal were heavier than what I've had to deal with on the last few models that I've built. It took a bit of time to clean the parts up. This mainly the result of going slowly in order to not damage the detail on the machine gun.

Installation of additional turret details/fittings:



Installation of the remaining turret fittings was mostly trouble free. It was a bit of a challenge cleaning the mold seems off of parts G12 (lifting rings). The seams were not large but removing what was there was difficult because of the tiny size of the parts and the odd angles that I had to work at to get my xacto blade at a proper angle to remove the seams.

This photo show the completed turret as it appears at the end of Step 11



Step 12- Step 12 is the assembly and installation of the commander figure in the turret. I am skipping this step. This Sherman is going to be cargo on a Dragon Wagon so the commander figure is not being used.

Step 13-This step is attaching the completed upper hull to the completed lower hull. However, I have to complete some sub-steps from Steps 1 through 8. I placed the upper hull and the lower hull together for a couple of quick pictures.





A summary of what will transpire for the remainder of the build:
1. Painting and assembly of the suspension system
2. Priming of the model
3. Application of pre-shade, base coat and shading coats
4. Painting and detailing of pioneer tools and additional hull/turret details
5. Assembly and finishing of tracks. I can't decide if I want to use kit tracks or a set of Fruils that I have.
6. Application of gloss coat, decals, gloss coat
7. Application of flat coat
8. Final application of weathering, pastels, etc.

So, stay tuned for future updates.

Thanks for the update, Brent. It looks good. My M4 105mm has been in and out of the closet a couple of times, but I hope to get started this week.

Keith, looks very good. I think you captured the look of the Russian Sherman, but extra pastels/dust will probably improve it even further.

Andy, Great Israeli Sherman. Looks very good - do not forget to paint the edges of the base Your Sherman deserves a top notch base

hello guys

here some pics of my M32, as it will remain for some weeks ,due to my injury I can not airbrush'm yet.
still need some cables, and some add on stowage, but basicly it's build





greetz

Brent: your M4 105mm is looking good and the photos are nice also.
Tha Pit: the M32 is coming along fine and I will look forward to the next photo.

ROBERT

Thanks Robert


will be a while, still have to wear the my brace,and I'm prohibited for at least another 2 weeks to even touch ground or have any kind of pressure on my leg, so getting up to the attic (where the airbrush is ) won't be easy


but hé, I've got plenty of time remaining to finish the campaigne

Greetz

Finally finished Firefly Ic Hybrid Hull (Dragon 1/35)

Great entry Marcin! Really beautifull piece of model making.
(BTW. Alexander Count Fredro's Zemsta II is almost as good sequal as Terminator II was - sorry for that ).
I'd really would like to finish my model and build some small dio for it, but I'm so busy that I don't know when it wil happen. Maybe this month will be enough (I have two other projects started and also left for better times...)

Andrzej

I am in also folks.

I was going to do the One Brent is doing but heck have a bunch of Sherman looking stuff so will pick another one.

Nice job Brent.

Thank you for kind words, Andrzej.

I have less time for modelling too, but I hope to finish my entry for Blitzkrieg campaign by the end of June.
Then I'm going to have few weeks break from modelling because it's very hot at my modelling place (it's at an attic), besides I'm a bit tired with making vehicle and I plan to finish one of already started figures in 1/16.

Alright better late than clever...
My original (I mean go back about 8 pages!) idea was to re-use a Sherman MkIII I had built with a Formations conversion to an M4, but I have since realised it is far more than 25% done...
Therefore I have come across a Sherman MkIII mid production 'Sicily', which requires far more work to represent a true M4, but I figure I have until September... Right?







Tracks will be saved for a M3 project methinks...

The hoods in the kit are welded versions like the Tarawa kit, and I needed cast versions...

I started on the BOG position hood.




Further research showed that there was more shaping to be done on the sides of the hoods, where there is a slight inwards curve before the thickened fronts... And of course the removal of the weld beads around the bow mg, and also the removal of the antenna pot. (Wrong style again!)



Today's work has realised the bulking up of the rear area behind the hatch attaching to the turret splash ring...



Some casting numbers will be added between the turret splash ring and the hatch...




All this is taking place whilst my Formations conversion set is en route...
Brad

I finished this one about 3 weeks ago. I just got around to shooting pictures this morning. This is the first Sherman I have built since about 1970. Comments welcome.

Nice job; what scale Carl? I'm doing a Thunderbolt in 1/72.

Regards,
Jan

Please remember to upload photos of finished models to campaign's gallery which is here: GALLERY
Thanks.

Wow! I am away from the tread for two days and missed a lot of great builds in this tread. Excellent Shermies, Carl and Marcin!

Nice start on the conversion, Bradley. It will be interesting to follow.