I am in with this right here.

great shermans folks!!

I actully took some pictures of my WIP M4A3E8 last night, but havent uploaded them yet...

in the meantime, doing one sherman has wetted my apetite for another! Im looking at starting on Academys 1/35 M10, and would like to use something other than the bar cleat tracks. (I just didnt see many pictures with M10s with the 3 bar cleat)

does anybody have some extra track from one of the Dragon kits (rubber chevron), or the rubber block track from Academy's M10 Duckbill, or even the extra DS steel cheveon track in the Dragon "Late PTO" sherman kit? Or any other sherman track of like quality...rubber band or indy link is fine.

id be willing to trade/ pay shipping or buy for a resonable cost.

thanks a bunch , and im in the US.
Andy

ok guys here is my build the priest kangaroo. its all most done all i have to do is weather the tracks and 2 machine guns to put on, when i joined the site on may 7 this was about 30% done with no paint on it and this was the first campaing i joined . i asked if it could be intered but got no responce. so here it is i hope. i still have some touch ups i see the darn camera shows everything.

Dear Campaigners,

Just signed up for the duration (after navigating the U-boat infested waters of the Armorama page structure!) and posted a couple of interior shots of my Italeri M4A1 under construction. Let's hope I can get it finished for 1 September...

Barkingdigger

hey there guys as ive finally got my pictures upon here i thort id show my m4 sherman
its tamiya OOB.. i shoud have it finished soon hopefully b4 campaign ends but heres some crude shots of it atm.. ope you like....








the straps were made out of a wire from model railway accessories i found in my local model shop i used it for the sling on the m1 rifle on the back on the tank aswell 1st try at making a sling lol quite impressed with it

all comments apreciated

Tony

As far as I am so far.

Sept 2008 or 2009??

I thought I'd better give an update on my project

This is what I'm recreating, except as it was just after it was drowned out.
This is what I've done so far,




So much to do so little time,
Bob

Well, all the hard work is done for now and sorry for the crummy pictures but I'll get better. I still have lighting issues I'll solve later.





All that's left is the detail painting and of course the tools and install them. For the first time I'll give weathering a try, a wash and some pigments from Warpigs I just received the other day.

Like I said, the hard work is done.

Here is what im working on for the campaign, Dragons new M4A3E8. I decided to make it a “generic” tank from the 37th TB, 4th AD where they added the frontal armor and turret armor much like “thunderbolt VII”, but minus the side armor. Don’t know how accurate, but I did find that all the tanks in C company had the 30 cal coax replaced with 50cals, and they all fitted the extra 30cal for the TC. So I just used some artistic license to say that when they beefed up “thunderbolt VII”, they probably did a few others like it.

I saw a picture of an E8 with a mid portion of its finder missing, so modeled that along with the ripped off braces and hardware, plus a few other dents and such. The PE brass finders make this easy. I used a sprinkling of ABERs sherman PE set for various things, including the 50cal (not fitted yet).

Base paint is done…so now on to washes, filters, etc.

The concept behind the base is the sherman rolling over a ruined section of wall out into a street. The street is some of that latex sheet from Kincadi, and if you haven’t seen it, GET SOME. Its awesome with the relief of resin, way cheaper, and far easier to work with. For instance, I put a corrugated cardboard base under the road area, and just used a knife handle to “rut” the cardboard, so that when I put the latex road section over it, it will conform to the cardboard and I will have a “rutted” cobblestone road…try that with a resin street section!

Anyway, here are the pics so far. Any comments wecome.

Andy
What paint did you use?

John

Looking good Andy like the dio idea hopefully will get some paint on my sherman soon

Hi all. Here is one I just finished. It is the old Dragon Battle Of The Buldge M4A3(76) release and had Eduard PE and Fruilmodel tracks (bery heavy!) This is one of my first AFVs so be kind! :-)


By warreni, shot with Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL at 2008-07-12

John,
So what you see in the pictures is model master and Floquil enamels. I sprayed the whole model with Floquil "Brunswick Green" from thier railroad colors, then sprayed model master OD green (from the model master 2 set), leaving the Brunswick green showing through the edges and shadows, then a real light highlight in some areas with model master "faded olive drab".

over this past weekend I did the filters using oil paint, so the over all tones have changed a bit. Ill get the washes/drybrushing done and then take some more pics.

Andy

Just a quick update on status




Just about totally finished on the construction, need to finish the tracks and the tankers. Then on to weathering and sinking it on a reef.
Bob


Just noticed that I have my barbwire a little low on the turret need to fix that

Hey all. I have been plugging away at the shermie for a few weeks now. Slow progress as things just keep jumping up and nipping me. I finished building the Tiger II that will be in the dio, but have yet to paint it. The dio will consist of a squad clearing the tiger #105 in Stavelot with the Sherman providing cover down the road. I am using considerable creative license with this one as well! This will be pretty daunting for me. I have never done any kind of urban anything!

This is a picture to go by-


-Mike

Forgot I needed to Dull Cote so no new progress to show yet.

Been some progress on my build in my WIP thread.
Finished the T80 tracks...

M4A3 105 HVSS

VERY nice work on those tracks! They look so real!!

great job on those tracks. i am all most done with the kanagroo all i have to do is the tracks for it. i know when i am done i am suppose to put pics in the kitmaker section. how many do i need to put in it

Thanx for thekind words regarding the tracks, appreciate it!

Been some more progress the last couple of days, I've started on the stowage.
Let me know what you think!
Thanx.

M4A3 105 HVSS

Hello all here is the latest update on the crab flail it been slow but now ready for paint



this is the longest i have ever took to build a kit and it has been a long hard slog with the resin and etch not using it before.

I'd say you did a nice job at it for the first time!! The paint will make it worth all that work.

hi guys the priest kangaroo is done. so here is some pics of what was done to it.


hano o n

Keith nice job on the crab, can you imagine what those around this machine when it was flailing? Especially the enemy watching nearby, wow what a site it must have been. Again a very nice build, cant wait to see it in camo.

@ Robert B, who is the folage mafg. they look easy to attach and I need that to complete my M4A1. You have given me an idea for my sand bag stowage also, thanks. The M7 is looking good.

ROBERT