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Fury tank
BigD1961
Joined: October 26, 2013
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Posted: Saturday, July 18, 2015 - 11:32 PM UTC
I am sure this has already been discussed, but what model Sherman was the tank in the movie Fury? I know it had the "Easy Eight" suspension, but what else can you tell me about it? If there is already a thread for the topic, can you lead me there? Thanks guys.
LeoCmdr
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Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2015 - 12:03 AM UTC
If you search for "Fury" on Armorama or Missing Lynx WWII Allied forum you'll find multiple posts on the same topic.
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/227717&page=1
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/227717&page=1
GeraldOwens
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Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2015 - 12:55 AM UTC
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I am sure this has already been discussed, but what model Sherman was the tank in the movie Fury? I know it had the "Easy Eight" suspension, but what else can you tell me about it? If there is already a thread for the topic, can you lead me there? Thanks guys.
It's supposed to be an M4A3E8, but the "hero" tank in the movie was usually a diesel powered M4A2E8 with postwar rubber block tracks. Another tank was also used in some scenes, an oddball M4E8 howitzer tank hull retrofitted with a T23 76mm turret (by a civilian owner or a museum, not the military). The difference would only be apparent if you looked at the engine deck and exhausts.
If you want to do a model, you'll have to decide if you want to depict the prop vehicle on the movie set, or the vehicle it was supposed to depict in a wartime setting.
18Bravo
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Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2015 - 01:10 AM UTC
Once you do that, this will save you some time:
http://www-legend.co.kr/portfolio/lf1300-m4a3e8-1945-update-set/
http://www-legend.co.kr/portfolio/lf1300-m4a3e8-1945-update-set/
ericadeane
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Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2015 - 02:06 AM UTC
If you're wanting the type of actual, historical tank that "Fury" was supposed to represent, then you want the Asuka M4A3E8. This version comes with accessories that mimic some of what "Fury" carried
http://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=TAS%2035030
On this company's listing, you see the instructions and accessories:
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10305845
the Legend's resin accessory set is certainly nice but if you want to save some money, perhaps solely get the Asuka kit w/accessories. The base kit is wonderful -- I've built two.
http://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=TAS%2035030
On this company's listing, you see the instructions and accessories:
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10305845
the Legend's resin accessory set is certainly nice but if you want to save some money, perhaps solely get the Asuka kit w/accessories. The base kit is wonderful -- I've built two.
BigD1961
Joined: October 26, 2013
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Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2015 - 02:44 AM UTC
If I understand the other postings, the Fury tank was a tank that never really saw action, correct? I was thinking the Easy Eight suspension was VERY late in the war and the 76 gun very rare. But I am not that much of a Sherman guy, more into Vietnam and IDF.
BigD1961
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Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2015 - 02:45 AM UTC
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If you're wanting the type of actual, historical tank that "Fury" was supposed to represent, then you want the Asuka M4A3E8. This version comes with accessories that mimic some of what "Fury" carried
http://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=TAS%2035030
On this company's listing, you see the instructions and accessories:
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10305845
the Legend's resin accessory set is certainly nice but if you want to save some money, perhaps solely get the Asuka kit w/accessories. The base kit is wonderful -- I've built two.
So they are kind of selling that as the Fury tank aren't they?
ericadeane
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Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2015 - 02:50 AM UTC
Dana: Asuka is definitely cashing in. They also have another M4A1 with accessories so you can make one of the other KO'd Shermans that were under War Daddy's command. Asuka has good reason to push this. Their Shermans are the top of the heap, bar none.
The 76mm gun wasn't rare. It entered the battlefield in the July-Aug 1944 timeframe. The HVSS suspension came to the battlefield in Nov or Dec '44 I believe.
The 76mm gun wasn't rare. It entered the battlefield in the July-Aug 1944 timeframe. The HVSS suspension came to the battlefield in Nov or Dec '44 I believe.
GeraldOwens
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Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2015 - 06:43 AM UTC
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If I understand the other postings, the Fury tank was a tank that never really saw action, correct? I was thinking the Easy Eight suspension was VERY late in the war and the 76 gun very rare. But I am not that much of a Sherman guy, more into Vietnam and IDF.
The M4A3E8, with 76 mm gun and HVSS suspension, entered production in August, 1944, and appeared in the ETO in time for the Battle of the Bulge in December. The VVSS suspension versions outnumbered them, obviously, but they appeared in ever greater numbers as replacement tanks in 1945.
The 76 mm M4A1 appeared in Normandy in July, 1944, and the M4A3 76(w) appeared in the fall campaigns. The 75 mm gun Shermans did outnumber the 76 mm versions up until April, 1945.
The movie prop tank, the M4A2E8, was a diesel version supplied to the Soviets near the end of the war, and to the Canadians postwar. The US Army did not want diesel tanks at that time, and the US Marines wanted diesels but did not want the 76 mm gun, as it had a smaller high explosive round than the 75 mm (which is why most Marine battalions reluctantly switched to the M4A3 75 mm (w) for the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns). The Soviets did use them in combat against the Japanese in August, 1945.
namengr
Joined: September 01, 2014
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Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2015 - 08:59 PM UTC
Smithsonion Channel had a show called Tanks of Fury that showed the tanks used to make the movie. Pretty informative.
fox
Joined: July 19, 2004
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Posted: Monday, July 20, 2015 - 01:11 AM UTC
hi all.
if you are going to make fury you will need to make some items to go on the tank,
1, a tool rack on the drivers side at the rear.
2. you will need royal models set 049 sherman m4 a2 http://www.royalmodel.com/it/catalogo_dettaglio.php?id_art=45
3.afv club tracks afv35033 t-84 rubber type
4.a new rear exhaust bar outlet.
5.new rear mud flaps to add.
I am the one how got legends to make this set and we could not add some items because of copyrights from sony and the tank museum sorry to say.
def models are making a set or should I say sets whit other shermans that where in the film that is when they can fit it in at some time.
iv give them all the pictures that I had of fury.
don't for get the echelon decal I had done for this kit and you can see my name on the decals and the same as for the name fury had to split it up for copyrights http://www.echelonfd.com/firstfrontier/D356189.htm hopes this helps you out if not let me now and I will see if I can help you out.
david green
if you are going to make fury you will need to make some items to go on the tank,
1, a tool rack on the drivers side at the rear.
2. you will need royal models set 049 sherman m4 a2 http://www.royalmodel.com/it/catalogo_dettaglio.php?id_art=45
3.afv club tracks afv35033 t-84 rubber type
4.a new rear exhaust bar outlet.
5.new rear mud flaps to add.
I am the one how got legends to make this set and we could not add some items because of copyrights from sony and the tank museum sorry to say.
def models are making a set or should I say sets whit other shermans that where in the film that is when they can fit it in at some time.
iv give them all the pictures that I had of fury.
don't for get the echelon decal I had done for this kit and you can see my name on the decals and the same as for the name fury had to split it up for copyrights http://www.echelonfd.com/firstfrontier/D356189.htm hopes this helps you out if not let me now and I will see if I can help you out.
david green
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