Jesse, I'd be all over the blog when you do one....
Matt, jump on in, it's not 'really' a Sherman, not with that big ol' gun tube. I'm haveing a hard time on the weeks I work days, like now, since my night weeks are when I get bench time. This one is that enjoyable.

Each time I saw one of these built up (in a mag or forum) I thought: "I have to do one of those". So here I go, as much OOB as possible, in that I haven't bought any AM parts for it, but am using pieces from my stash, including some brass.
Basic hull:




In the pic below, the tow cable clamps on the top-mid hull are now replaced with Formations resin parts that I found lurking in my stash. The etch foundry marks were in Dragon kits that I've been using for parts, very useful and totally forgotten about by me.


I'm not moving very quickly on this one, lots else going on, but I'll try and keep pics posted on a regular basis. I am enjoying this build, due in large part to the fact that the kit parts FIT. My modeling time not spent fixing engineering problems (even though that's still modeling) but in building a kit and adding such details as I'm comfortable with, very refreshing. Sure, Tamiya did a few things in the name of simplicity, but nothing that's not easy to fix.

Well, krrappp, Pedro, that's a case of "monkey see, monkey do". My Acad kit has that casting mark on the glacis and I found one in an etch set in a Dragon parts kit... You get the idea. Color is on, so it's kind of too late to pull it off without a lot of re-do, so I'm just going to have to live with it.
Anyway, pics so far:


Now I gotta go scratch my head about that casting logo.....