Subotica, Serbia & Montenegro
Joined: November 30, 2007
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Posted: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 - 03:10 AM UTC
Croatia Hrvatska
Joined: April 18, 2010
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Posted: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 - 01:27 PM UTC
auuu! odličan!
and since i'm from balkans just a friendly advice... get a lawyer asap..
wouldn't be surprised if someone sues you for copying his artistic expression of vandalism
Netherlands
Joined: May 20, 2015
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Posted: Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 09:28 PM UTC
If this one really took part in the movie then they must have added some stuff back after taking part in the movie. Sometimes movie directors can be picky like that.
None of the 3 had a gun travel lock, the .50cal machine gun pintle on the turret of Oddball's was longer, none had torsion bars on the engine deck doors and there seems to be a patch of applique armor on the turret. It does look to have the correct T54E1 track that Oddball's M4A3 had, one rear mudflap and the commander's hatch is correct.
Croatia Hrvatska
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Posted: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 - 05:05 AM UTC
all tanks in movie had damaged paint on barrels from gun travel lock so at some point they had them. But position of damage is different on movie/present photos...
http://oi61.tinypic.com/2m47lz7.jpgmovie tanks look like they didn't had turret right side plate:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g169/ncc1984/screencap643.jpg~originalgood eye might get serial numbers of gun gun mantlets
Odball's tank had one row of holes:
http://www.podwits.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kellys-heroes-2.jpg Netherlands
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Posted: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 - 10:46 PM UTC
Quoted Text
all tanks in movie had damaged paint on barrels from gun travel lock so at some point they had them. But position of damage is different on movie/present photos...
http://oi61.tinypic.com/2m47lz7.jpg
Looking at the paint damage it had to have been on the engine deck behind the engine doors. A picture of an M4A3 that just left the conversion plant with YO codes on the hull seems to confirm this.
Netherlands
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Posted: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 - 10:53 PM UTC
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good eye might get serial numbers of gun gun mantlets
That would have been D68454 and the Formations conversion has it on the wrong side of the mantlet missing the triangular symbol at the same time. Weird thing is this 1/35 Sherman does seem to have the right arrangement of roadwheels that were on Oddball's Sherman.
Georgia, United States
Joined: January 31, 2010
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Posted: Thursday, June 04, 2015 - 12:00 AM UTC
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None of the 3 had a gun travel lock
Look at the very bottom left of this photo... it does have a travel lock.
http://s56.photobucket.com/user/ncc1984/media/screencap643.jpg.htmlJoin AMPS.
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Croatia Hrvatska
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Posted: Thursday, June 04, 2015 - 03:53 AM UTC
yes but that's the small rear one, abandoned sherman has the big lock in front...