Everyone who does Shermans knows that Tamiya has a decent M4A3 75mm kit from 20 years ago and a recent upgrade of the same kit. I was doing an inventory of my motorpool and discovered something weird.

I have built so many Shermans and kit bashed so many sets, I don't have a plain old M4A3 75mm!! The two Tamiya M4A3 kits I bought were converted to a 76mm Italeri turret swap and a Verlinden M1 Dozer. The other Tamiya M4A3 was the 105mm version. Italeri M4A3 kits were the USMC and Calliope variants. Well I have rectified this oversight by buying the older M4A3 kit off ebay. Hopefully I won't come up with some brilliant find like a Crab or Aunt Jemima.

thats unacceptable shermie, even the little dog shermies need room in a motor pool..... :-)

Hey Shermies!
I built this Sherman, the old one.About the kit,no commentaries...its old, and I knew i would find problems,so I decided to built it completely OTB!I even put the horrible .50!

Is that the Tamiya M4A3E8?

I had one of them.




Motorised!!!

I was also on a lookout for old Shermans. If I ever got my hands on them, I'll build them OOB to preserve the details (althought not that good).

LOL ! I just checked ..and with all the shermans I've built over the years ...two are missing from my shelf ..A straight M4A3 and a M4A1 late ...Hey I've got M4A3 mid..I got an M4 ,an early M4A1 a conversion way before the dragon kit of an M4A3E8 using the M4a3 from Tamiya ..the turret from Italeri and the boggies from that old Tamiya M4a3E8 kit ....but not staight kits ...We're bad aren't we ...lol
:-)

Rick

Yes, is the m4a3e8!!I think it turned out preety well, with a good painting/weathering you can get a nice looking old guy!!