Hello everyone, I have a question concerning Dragon’s new M& priest. What would it take to backdate it to an early version? I am looking into getting one myself and what like to build it as a British version in North Africa or maybe Sicily. I am not a big Sherman fan so I could not really tell all that much about the difference between all the version other than basic stuff. Even simple short cuts would help too, I think I read somewhere about there being different engine decks and if so, could I just cover up the deck with gear and equipment as a sort of short cut? Any help would be much appreciated, pictures drawings, anything really.
Thanks,
Chris

Hi Christopher,

For an early British vehicle, you'd need M3 Boggies, the smaller pulpet, lights need repositioned and the internal ammo stowage is different. You could load up the rear deck with stowage/ammo. No side panels were on the early vehicles, so if these are separate parts then now worries other wise you'd have to cut the original shape out.

i did the Italeri kit a good while back so my thoughts are related to that not the Dragon kit.

I haven't looked at the Dragon kit in detail but that's what springs to mind first off.

Al

Al, it only has the M3 bogies in the kit.
Cheers
Al

Thanks guys, that's at least a good starting point for me. I'm not real familar with the different kinds of boggies, but at least the dragon kit comes with the boggies I need to back date. I came across a modeller that used the academy kit and just loved the look of it. I just want to do something different other than the standard us od green and like the way the british tried to camo their vehicles early in the war.
Chris