Dont Know if you noticed but this tread is 6 pages long and that campaign start is still more than 2 months away. I think you stirred up a hornets nest of Sherman lovers. Good job.



Hey Paul,
Dont Know if you noticed but this tread is 6 pages long and that campaign start is still more than 2 months away. I think you stirred up a hornets nest of Sherman lovers. Good job.![]()
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I'm in. My first campaign, and I'm going with Tasca's Sherman VC firefly 'Carole' set sometime before D-Day when there is good reference material available.
Some comments/questions on vehicle stowage.
1) On the left-hand side of the first picture here http://www.archertransfers.com/AR35172pix.html there is an ammunition box. Based on the lack of such boxes shown on photographs here http://www.network54.com/Forum/47208/message/1167036218/A+Review+of+Stowage+Patterns+on+the+glacis+of+27+Armd+Bde+Shermans+%28looong%29 I think this box must be stored on the rear of the tank in front, rather than attached to the glacis of Carole. Any thoughts?
2) With the deep wading gear fitted what happened to the fittings (smoke box and towbar)? Where these just left off and brought ashore separately? They cannot easily be identified on the photos shown in the first link above.
3) I had not spotted this before but the rear stowage includes a basic type of drawbar. Other examples are shown on the front of other Shermans seen in link 2 above. I think I will need to scratchbuild this, but are these available commercially?
Andrew
Hey Al,
This site may add some confusion regarding M4A3's in British service.
I puts forward that U.S. M4A3's were converted to Fireflys for use in Italy.
Very interesting...... !!
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I'm in. My first campaign, and I'm going with Tasca's Sherman VC firefly 'Carole' set sometime before D-Day when there is good reference material available.
Some comments/questions on vehicle stowage.
1) On the left-hand side of the first picture here http://www.archertransfers.com/AR35172pix.html there is an ammunition box. Based on the lack of such boxes shown on photographs here http://www.network54.com/Forum/47208/message/1167036218/A+Review+of+Stowage+Patterns+on+the+glacis+of+27+Armd+Bde+Shermans+%28looong%29 I think this box must be stored on the rear of the tank in front, rather than attached to the glacis of Carole. Any thoughts?
2) With the deep wading gear fitted what happened to the fittings (smoke box and towbar)? Where these just left off and brought ashore separately? They cannot easily be identified on the photos shown in the first link above.
3) I had not spotted this before but the rear stowage includes a basic type of drawbar. Other examples are shown on the front of other Shermans seen in link 2 above. I think I will need to scratchbuild this, but are these available commercially?
Andrew
Pat
Thanks for the link. I've got one of Resicast's other tank accessory kits but it had not occured to me to check out the rest of the range. The end connection looks a little different but this is what I need. A close inspection of the photograph of the other side of the tank does appear to show the connecting link on the drawbar.
Tom
That was what I thought. My only concern about the ammunition box was whether there was enough space to fix it between the wading trunk and the edge of the tank, but I have now found some photographs of other Shermans showing the base of the wading trunk and it is clear there is enough space to fit a box.
Hey Paul, I have a request. Finances won't stretch to buying a set of DS tracks at the minute, and the DS tracks I thought I could rob from my Sherman III are the wrong type![]()
This means I'm going to have to use the kit-supplied individual links.....3 parts each.....78 both sides.......![]()
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Do you think it would be OK if I started on the tracks now? I just want to do a handful every modelling session I have, so as to make the job much less onerous when I start for real. Even doing 3 a day will take me 6 months to do them all....
Hey Paul, I have a request. Finances won't stretch to buying a set of DS tracks at the minute, and the DS tracks I thought I could rob from my Sherman III are the wrong type![]()
This means I'm going to have to use the kit-supplied individual links.....3 parts each.....78 both sides.......![]()
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Do you think it would be OK if I started on the tracks now? I just want to do a handful every modelling session I have, so as to make the job much less onerous when I start for real. Even doing 3 a day will take me 6 months to do them all....
Paul, you are going to need a couple of assistants to help with the volume and keep you sane.I picked mine early for the campaigns that I have running and coming up. Good luck with this campaign, it will be a busy one with the subject. I cannot wait to tear into my kit and after market parts, all this and school also
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Bob
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