Here is my firefly that i orded on sunday from ebay.carnt wait to start it but theres no way am doing them indy tracks.what type are they t48s or t51s.are the friulmodel ones any good and do they come with enough links as the firefly is a bit longer than a normal sherman.cheers all bye :-) :-)

hi Tigeriv . the firefly is a great kit,
i also got mine the other day also,
the detail on this kit is great,
i ordered the EDUARD firefly barrel
Highly detailed aluminum gun barrel
its kit number is EDU-34010
its better then the barrle that comes with the kit,
and i also oreder these after market tracks.
called RHPS they are plastic and indy.
they are work able dont need glue,
hollowpoint told me these are better then the fuil model. and the tracks in the kit are the chevron t-48.
and i got the t-48 tracks from RHPS
http://www.missing-lynx.com/reviews/usa/rhpst48.htm

Great help tazz thanks and good luck with your model.you wont see mine for a while as iv got no airbrush need to buy a new one old ones dont work anymore

u are welcome Tigeriv any time u need help ,
i will try to help u the best i can.
i dont think iam going to build the fire fly yet.
its nice to ruin it lol,
but may be in a few weeks i hope
AND THE WEIRD THING WHY DO THEY GIVE US
AMERCIAN DEACLS WITH IT, WHY DONT THEY GIVE US A
BRITAN FLAG AND STEAD OF A STAR
CHECK OUT THIS GUYS FIRE FLY
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Tazz my firefly has british makings,the choice of two i can model the 13/18th royal hussars,27th armoured brigade or the4th county of london yeomanry sharpshooters both normandy 44.i think the first one tank number 71 in red from the 13/18 th brigade is the tank that killed michel wittmann maybe wrong cheers

Hi Tiger. I never had a set of friuls for a sherman, but usually Friul sets have quite a few extra tracks. When I built my panther, I had about 10 track shoes for extra armor and still had about 10 or 12 left over. So there should be planty.
Yesterday I completed a set of AFV Club sherman tracks and for the normal sherman it says 79 tracks per side and the firefly was 83 per side. I would put money on that you will have at least four extra tracks per side.

As its a monotone vehicle, why not get a tin of spray paint and spray it with that. Its easy to detail paint with a brush afterwards. Before I got my airbrush this is how I did it!

Tamiya´s early M4 sprayed with olive drab spray can


Italeri´s M4A1 sprayed with an airbrush

Hi Guy's,
I just wanted to point out a few things. The Tracks used by the Vc Firefly did vary but the kit tracks are actually T62 steel cheveron not T48. The Rubber cheveron was the least used and I have only seen a few on Ic's but you never know there is always that possibility. That said you can use RHPS T74 British Cheveron. I just added them to my Vc Firefly and they worked great. You can also use T49 tracks from Afv Club and they are rubber band as well and these were used quite frequently as well. The kit tracks with a bit of work are fairly decent. So you have a few options there. Tazz the star in Circle decals were used by all allied armies in Normandy as a quick visual reference I.e Friend or Foe. Just some food for thought
cheers,
Bryan

Good luck with that kit.. the indy tracks do look daunting but they are doable.. I did this kit a year or so ago.. I used the 2nd release of the kit #6121 and it was the first time i did indy links.. put the tank to gether in about 3 days the tracks took quite a bit longer.. anyways here is a pic and a link to other pictures.



firefly pics

I also wrote a feature for armorama about building indy tracks of this type its under the features/ armor section. think around #21 or thereabouts.

DelbertD