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M18 Hellcat
modelguy2
Joined: March 09, 2002
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 02:19 AM UTC
My last build of 2008
GaryKato
Joined: December 06, 2004
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 02:59 AM UTC
I don't think the poles on the left side of the hull should be red/white. Those poles are probably the gun cleaning rod. Red/white rods are usually the stakes used for orienting artillery indirect fire, which the M18 wouldn't normally be used for.
Otherwise it looks very nice with nice weathering that isn't extreme.
Otherwise it looks very nice with nice weathering that isn't extreme.
Straniero
Joined: December 20, 2008
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 03:14 AM UTC
Lovely job. Which kit is it? IIRC there were two out, each with their own problems for nitpickers.
modelguy2
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 04:41 AM UTC
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I don't think the poles on the left side of the hull should be red/white. Those poles are probably the gun cleaning rod. Red/white rods are usually the stakes used for orienting artillery indirect fire, which the M18 wouldn't normally be used for.
Otherwise it looks very nice with nice weathering that isn't extreme.
Apparently this crew didn't get that memo
I also have a photo of an M36TD with these (squadron TDIA)and Don Greer painted the M18 on the cover of Squadrons TD's in action like so. Now I believe Don had access to the photo that that cover illustrates. I found it online but it's too small to see. I've seen them mounted on the hull or under the stowage basket on the turret or as in the photo just on top of stowage. Everything including 75mm Shermans were used in indirect fire missions in WW-II.
The kit is Academy with Eduard PE.
Thanks for the comments
Mike
newfish
Joined: June 23, 2008
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 06:22 AM UTC
great hellcat the weatheing looks great!
what kit did you use ?
what kit did you use ?
modelguy2
Joined: March 09, 2002
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 06:40 AM UTC
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great hellcat the weatheing looks great!
what kit did you use ?
........sigh......... Look over your head
newfish
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 07:01 AM UTC
thanks for the sarcasm
i didnt read it properly
bless you
i didnt read it properly
bless you
GaryKato
Joined: December 06, 2004
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 07:54 AM UTC
Quoted Text
Quoted TextI don't think the poles on the left side of the hull should be red/white. Those poles are probably the gun cleaning rod. Red/white rods are usually the stakes used for orienting artillery indirect fire, which the M18 wouldn't normally be used for.
Otherwise it looks very nice with nice weathering that isn't extreme.
Apparently this crew didn't get that memo
I also have a photo of an M36TD with these (squadron TDIA)and Don Greer painted the M18 on the cover of Squadrons TD's in action like so. Now I believe Don had access to the photo that that cover illustrates. I found it online but it's too small to see. I've seen them mounted on the hull or under the stowage basket on the turret or as in the photo just on top of stowage. Everything including 75mm Shermans were used in indirect fire missions in WW-II.
The kit is Academy with Eduard PE.
Thanks for the comments
Mike
The red/white sticks in the second M18 picture (and in Greer's painting) are in the turret basket. I'm guessing they are aiming stakes for indirect fire but note that they are not stored in place of the gun cleaning rod. But maybe crews decided they accessed the aiming stakes more often than the cleaning rods and switched the storage. Maybe they painted the cleaning rods red/white and used them for aiming stakes as well as for cleaning the gun?
DT61
Joined: September 18, 2005
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 08:06 AM UTC
Really nice M18. Any interior pictures?
Darryl
Darryl
modelguy2
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 09:21 AM UTC
I only took 1
CMOT
Editor-in-Chief
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 11:15 AM UTC
Very nice work Mike, why not submit and OD or build feature to us here.
DT61
Joined: September 18, 2005
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 11:17 AM UTC
Thanks, really nice job on the kit.
Darryl
Darryl
johnsport
Joined: June 22, 2008
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 05:13 PM UTC
Great job especially the weathering work 
May I have the Academy product code? 1375???
May I have the Academy product code? 1375???
blkhwkmech
Joined: August 23, 2005
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Posted: Friday, January 02, 2009 - 06:35 PM UTC
What did you use to simulate the snow on the M18
ericadeane
Joined: October 28, 2002
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Posted: Saturday, January 03, 2009 - 04:09 AM UTC
Nice job Mike!
It struck me that there should be more snow on the rear tracks than the front ones unless the M18 has been recently moving backwards. FYI
As for the aiming poles/gun cleaning staff, the M18 Tech Manual states that the cleaning staff is stored on the left hull (with the bore brush stored in the turret extension box). No artillery aiming posts are issued to M18s.
As evidenced by the photo above, certainly industrious crews obtained aiming posts (probably because they had extensive indirect fire missions). However, the bore cleaning staff rods were an essential and that wouldn't be chucked in favor of aiming posts. As for the idea of painting them red/white -- that's possible I suppose. But aiming posts were implanted to be of use and the bore rods were just poles which screwed into one another to make a long pole.
It struck me that there should be more snow on the rear tracks than the front ones unless the M18 has been recently moving backwards. FYI
As for the aiming poles/gun cleaning staff, the M18 Tech Manual states that the cleaning staff is stored on the left hull (with the bore brush stored in the turret extension box). No artillery aiming posts are issued to M18s.
As evidenced by the photo above, certainly industrious crews obtained aiming posts (probably because they had extensive indirect fire missions). However, the bore cleaning staff rods were an essential and that wouldn't be chucked in favor of aiming posts. As for the idea of painting them red/white -- that's possible I suppose. But aiming posts were implanted to be of use and the bore rods were just poles which screwed into one another to make a long pole.
modelguy2
Joined: March 09, 2002
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Posted: Saturday, January 03, 2009 - 05:31 AM UTC
I SURRENDER!!
And ask forgiveness. I've repainted the offending poles. Will I add range poles? No, I've been jaded
Thanks Roy for pointing out the lack of snow on the rear end- I attribute it purely to laziness and the hope that no one would point it out
The snow is a base of Hudson and Allen with what I like to call, in the Kung Fu vernacular
White Resin dances with 60 Grit sprinkled about
Darryl I took the lid off and snapped a couple of inside shots. The kit comes with half rounds molded to the hull shelf. I removed them and added 76mm Sherman leftover rounds from various DML 76mm Sherman kits. I'm not sure that the rounds are the same but with the turret in place they can barely be seen.
John it's Academy #1375
john111
Joined: October 04, 2005
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Posted: Saturday, January 03, 2009 - 06:07 AM UTC
Modelguy11,
Very nice M18 Hellcat, I just came home with the very same model a couple minutes ago. Have you seen the program Tank Builders, they do one on the M18, its good. Also go to Youtube and search M18, good stuff there to. Keep up the good, I mean great work !!!
If you go to the web site Track-Link, you also find out there are others like yours that have painted white and white stripss on the poles...... maybe they weren't CC either... I"am doing mine with the stripes to !! I
Very nice M18 Hellcat, I just came home with the very same model a couple minutes ago. Have you seen the program Tank Builders, they do one on the M18, its good. Also go to Youtube and search M18, good stuff there to. Keep up the good, I mean great work !!!
If you go to the web site Track-Link, you also find out there are others like yours that have painted white and white stripss on the poles...... maybe they weren't CC either... I"am doing mine with the stripes to !! I
modelguy2
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Posted: Saturday, January 03, 2009 - 06:49 AM UTC
Thanks John
Mike T
Mike T
jimz66
Joined: December 15, 2006
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Posted: Sunday, January 04, 2009 - 04:08 AM UTC
Very nice Hellcat Mike. Great job on the weathering and very great job on the stowage as well. Thanks for sharing. Very nice.
modelguy2
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Posted: Sunday, January 04, 2009 - 08:46 AM UTC
Thanks James
Mike
Mike
muddyfields
Joined: February 04, 2006
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Posted: Sunday, January 04, 2009 - 08:51 AM UTC
Hello
Very nice build. like the little touch of snow.
Very nice build. like the little touch of snow.
modelguy2
Joined: March 09, 2002
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Posted: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 05:31 AM UTC
Thanks Shaun
Mike T
Mike T
trahe
Joined: April 03, 2006
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Posted: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 05:45 AM UTC
Nice build. I like the weathering and the touch of melting snow!
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