Great link Rick Bookmarked I love Shermies



@ Cal - lovely progress !

@ David - that is one hell of a machine, congrats. Man that superstructure is a piece of art

Paul

117 starters now - another 33 would be nice

Great link, Richard.

Took a few screen dumps of the 105mm Shermie with sandbag armour and camouflage painting. I am definitely going to build that one. I do not know if it will be for this campaign, but one day.....

Im pritty much done now will post some more pic's tonight just got to put stowage and some more weathering.

finally I have figured out how to get pics on forums.

Hey David how about some brighter pics of your build? Hard to determine your work on the dull photo. Get some extra lighting happening
Brad

thats the best I can do for now as my camera is out of battery's.

Nice work David ...I'm not sure if any of these 105"s had the welded side armor but I'm not ready to say it couldn't happen... the paint and weathering look great...

Now I got a question for you guys ...As you know I'm building a sherman II DV in North Africa..Most pictures show a jerry can holder on the back end ...Question is ...Gas or Water in the jerry can...They give you both types in the Tasca kit but no clues as which one to use ..

thanks I have enjoyed building this one. wasn't sure about the plates either but thought Id pot them on. just got to fit the tracks and fit stowage now. sorry cant help you with your Question.

Nice work David - I like the mud / dust along the bottom of the sponson

Please post more pics when you can.

Richard I believe a 'water' jerry can would be more appropriate. I'm interested to hear what the other guys say.

I've drilled the 4 holes in the sides of my Shermies bogies and now need to add the three bolt / nuts to each.

What size styrene rod would be most appropriate if I were to scratch these ?

Cheers guys, great work !!

Paul

@ Richard, they put water in de external jerrycans.

good luck with you Sherman II DV

Martin

David- Nice Sherman! Looks good, and looking forward to some more pictures.

I've started doing a little bit of the Aber PE set on my Sherman, but it's gonna take awhile, for sure. I still need to get some Gator Glue...

G'day Guys !

Here are some pics of where I'm at on 'Oddballs' Shermie.

The hull is 90 % finished apart for the tail light guards and the hatches. I'll also add some straps to Oddball's '90 mm' tube on the RHS of the hull (the Tamiya masking tape looks a bit dodgy ), and also the nut / bolts on the lower bogies.

The DS tracks are on temporarily. I'll add the front guards after the tracks are on permanently.

The turret has yet to have any detail added (including the huge speaker ).

I haven't used PE on the headlight guards as they're covered with German helmets (from Tank).








Let me know what you think ... and keep posting


Woof, woof, woof !!

Paul

Paul,

Lookin' good!

Tom

(Still no real progress on my diesel engine - got distracted by writing a review...)

Nice tidy build pual. its looking good. Im a bit of a messy builder but Im working on it. thanks for all the kind words guys should be finished this week. may make a diorama for it to go on as there is a lot of time left or just build anouther

Great start Paul... No negative vibes over here.... I'm still debating if i add the tools now or wait till later .....

It has been a while since I last posted. I have completed the chassis and turret and primed it using Krylon Grey Primer.



Here is a shot of the lower chassis. I mixed up Tamyia Olive Drab, Reddish Brown and some Flat Black. This was the first coat. I went back later and made it darker.



Shot of the chassis front. Again the darker color Olive Drab on the lower half.



Side shot of chassis showing both the darker lower and lighter upper half's.



Shot showing the lower half of the turret. I sprayed this with the darker Olive Drab to add some variance to it.



Masking off some panel areas and spraying a lighter color to again add some variance to what would otherwise be a drab surface.



Overall shot showing the color variance. It should tone down when given a wash and weathering.

Hey, everyone. On the Tamiya M4A3, is the little hatch on the side of the turret supposed to be faired in with putty? From pictures I've seen, it seems that is the case, but just want to make sure!

Hi Justin ..you are correct, it was all part of the cast turret so no line should be seen...

After a good bit of work this weekend, I believe I'm calling this guy finished. I did a real rotten job sanding the wading stacks early on, and I keep kicking myself for not being more patient with that. I also had some trouble with the DS tracks. I was expecting them to be too long, but they turned out to be tight. I couldn't get a good fit on the two track ends without snapping off the idler wheel.

Good gosh man I thought that was a 1/35th scale kit till I saw your hand in the picture...even more impressive!...Don't sweat the few things you're not satisfied with just use it as a learning expirence and you'll be more careful next time ...I still haven't seen anything wrong with the stacks ... Excellent job sir!

@Richard - I used to addd tools later, I now prefer to get the gluing over and paint them with a nice little brush after the base coat goes on

@ Michael - lovely work... Is that a braille scale build ? Crikey !! What a great job !!

Keep up the great work team, this Campaign is going sooooo well !!

Paul

Paul,

I missed your earlier question about those bolts on the bottom of the bogies - I use Plastruct's hex-shaped rod in 0.8mm size, but you could use slightly bigger ones too. (I'm not an expert, but it looks like there were at least two sizes of nut used on the ral ones...)

Tom