Dave O''Meara (GrumpyOldMan) takes a Tamiya Sherman, and................. well, not a lot else actually! He shows how to make it better without all the aftermarket boys! Thanks Dave!

Vinnie

M4A3 With No Aftermarket!



If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

Hi Dave,

Back into action I hope. Thanks for the review, very useful, you can never get enough advive when it comes to this little bestie.

Vinnie change Italeri for Tamiya???! :-)

Just shows me how far I've yet to travel, great tips Dave and a neat build. Looks greats - thanks.

Cheers

Al

Alan, have done, and it's not a review! And thanks to those two that pointed out that mistake in a private PM :-)

Vinnie

Really interesting description of the build Dave. I enjoyed reading it and looking at the pictures and I must say your style of writing is really nice.
Great work 10/10.

John

Excellent conversational tone in the writing style, gets the point across very well. Well-chosen pictures too.

hi Dave..

very nice.. I plan to sit down and read this one more througly.. I plan to learn a lot..

laters..

Ok.

I know noozeeng about shermans but managed to pick this up fairly cheaply last week (murphy on my side for once). My question is I want to build this up as a Brit version what changes do I have to make? I'm looking at 'FOX' from the RMASG or if that involves too much cutting and filling (as well as buying a Dragon Firefly) a generic NW Europe version, actually I could do a western desert one as I've srtill got the base I made for a defunct Quad (see earlier post on MM cammo)

Thanks

Craig

The short answer is change everything apart from the suspension Sadly, very few M4A3s got Lend-Leased and none of the late ones like this got into British hands AFAIK. Building British Shermans would be very difficult without Dragon (the only other option is the Tamiya M4 Early(ish)) and I hope the promised Dragon M4A2 Tarawa will be suitable for British use.

Can't remember whether Fox is a Sherman III or V (=M4A2 or M4A4).

Very enjoyable reading, I'm gonna look a lot more into your lightguardtec when I get home.

Cheers

Thanks guys,
Vinnie, now that I'm over my fear of writing an article, there will be probably be many more editing jobs heading your way...... !!!! :-) That's also a threat to the other editors!!!!

Probably 6 month to a year before the figures and base show up...... :-) :-)

Great article Dave. Thoroughly enjoyable read on one of my favorite kits, the Tamiya M4A3!

Great article! Interesting to read and about a very nice tank: the M4A3 Sherman! I hope to build one one of these days - after my current projects - and I read it very carefully! Very good article Dave!
Cheers and happy modelling!
Prato

Gday Grumps!
Glad that this has been given the exposure it deserves
I remember following this build last year(?) and was intrigued at some of the techniques you applied... Then in reading this Feature, I discover more... The weathering technique you describe is surely worth trying out... The results look great!
Also your dab hand at that wolf on the right hullside is fantastic
Cheers for the Feature, and the quality photos...
Brad

All these posts and no one has noticed that the feature's title reads "Sherman A4A3" instead of M4A3? :-) :-)

Title typo aside, the article and pics look good, Dave!

Hi Dave,

For someone who constantly undermines his modelling prowess..... you might just be the most talented modeller around!!! Great build Dave!

Frank

Read the article,WOW!! Just shows what can be done with time and effort, and no photoetch/ after-market. Excellent article, Thanx !!

Nice one Grumpy. Im sure that will have a high read count within a very short time. Some nice little tips explained also, using the tape to transfer the design onto thinner plastic sheet, is something I´ll remember.
Who said you can´t teach an old dog new tricks?? :-) :-)

Dave, I'm glad I found this. I have a 1/32nd Sherman (The old Monogram kit) I've been working on. The light guards for it were snaped in several places (like they seem to always be) and I had concerns about how to build new ones with that funky backwards curve. After seeing how well your's came out, I not worried about that curve anymore.

As an aside, does anyone know if they make armor decals for this scale? The kit's were missing....like I said..it's the old kit.

love the tank build and the fact its a no aftermartket just shows all that stuff isnt realy needed i am now working on same model and keep coming back to the post just to see how its done


marvelous

spyder50

Hi
Nice model!

Nice to here from you again Vinnie,your stuff was always helpful

Good work Dave,I like your handling of the OD