With all the talk lately about the different aftermarket stuff for the maligned Tamiya Jumbo Sherman, I decided to put one together out-of-the-box for Spring Break. I will finish it with a winter wash.

This is an easy build OTB. I started on it Sunday nite and finished assembly yesterday. The only modifications I made were a strip of plastic on the front to hold some stowage, a cable from the spare box and a German helmet as a souvenir. Also, to add some texture to the transmission cover I applyed some typewriter correction fluid on the plastic piece and sand it down until it had a cast look. You can see it from the picture but the texture looks pretty good.


Let's see if I can finish up this one by Saturday.

Cheers,

CDT Reimund Manneck
U.S. Army ROTC

Reimund--I love that version of the Sherman. Let us know how you apply the winter wash. Some great examples of how to put a light coat on the vehicle. I am now convinced the only way to build Shermans is to construct it without OVM then paint it flat black then do the OD shade. I use white glue for my OVM later. Works like a charm.
stay safe
DJ

I decided to apply some mud on the lower parts of the chassis. The mud is a mix of white glue, water and foot powder.....smells gooooood The mix was liberally applied on all areas around the drive train and the underside of the transmission cover.


Going to do some work on the machine gun and stowage while the mud dries dries.

Cheers,

CDT Reimund Manneck
U.S. Army ROTC

Looking good so far. Why foot powder? Other than smelling good, I mean.

Follow-up question: did you still have to apply the OD? I can not tell from the photo if you have a flat black or a dark green base.
thanks

I used foot powder because it was the only kind of fine powder I had laying around.




What you see is the black prime. I still have to apply the OD, I will go with Tamiya's XF-62 Olive Drab. I am not interested in getting a perfect shade of OD just a base green color. I will either paint it tonite or early in the morning.

Cheers,

CDT Reimund Manneck
U.S. Army ROTC

Nice looking build Reimund .... these older Tamiya Sherman can be a real joy to build.
Foot powder you say!!! hhhmmmmm
Keep us posted on progress.

They sure are fun, and with all the aftermarket out there you can go bananas with these Tamiya kits.

The model was given an airbrushed coat of Tamiya XF-62 Olive Drab. I really did not like the shade of the paint, it is too green and not enough olive. If I wasn't building this Sherman with a winter finish I would have used Model Master Acryl OD which in my opinion looks much better.
I tried something new today while airbrushing. I mixed in a few drops of Winsor & Newton Acrylic Flow Improver. It made airbrushing much easier, no clogs or spatter. The paint did however take a little longer than usual to dry.



This picture shows the stowage I will add after the winter wash. The German helmet is the same one that was glued in the fromt in the previous pictures. I think it looked really stupid so I decided to remove it and put it in the back. Where the helmet was I glued a spare wheel which will also be winterized. The tarp is texturized kitchen foil.

Tommorrow I will be doing the winter camo, saty tuned.

Cheers,

CDT Reimund Manneck
U.S. Army ROTC

Looking good Reimund, what method are you planning to use for the whitewash?

I will coat the model with a a somewhat dilluted white coat making sure that the base green shows through specially on the top of the hul and turret. Than, to wear out the winter camo I will introduce chips and scratches with a pointy brush and some diluted OD paint. I am looking to create a winter camo that is quite solid but really chipped off from the hatches, the transmission cover and corners.

Cheers,

CDT Reimund Manneck
U.S. Army ROTC

Looking good, although it's a Sherman, but still looking good. Good work.

Here is the white Jumbo:



As I said above, I was going for a quite solid look for the winter camo. The weather here in NYC is really bad today and the lighting is terrible, the model isn't really that white.
For the paint I used Tamiya flat white mixed with a couple of drops of OD. I used Blue-Tak to mask the tip of the gun and the commander's hatch. Once the paint is dry I will start the weathering process. Also, even though you can't see very well, the model is sitting on a base I clobered up.

Cheers,

CDT Reimund Manneck
U.S. Army ROTC

Good stuff Bombshell! I have a bottle of that Tamiya matt additive, but I'm afraid to touch it or run it through my brush. What kind of ratio did you use on your job? I take it it's basically a white matt OD since you mentioned it's really not that white. I understand how webcams do not necessarily pick up all of the fine pigment in a pic, and how lighting can do funny things to a picture. How are you going to weather the jumbo?

I particularly like the piece of tarp/cloth that you have on the rear deck. I stlil haven't figured how to do those

I really don't measure ratios that much. My rule of thumb for airbrushing is that if the paint in the cup has the consistency of milk than it's fine enough. For the winter camo I simply added a bit more alcohol and flow enhancer to make it easier to control the flow of paint. By the way, I airbrush with a single action airbrush.

For tarps I always use texturized kitchen foil. I simply cut a piece of foil and than paint it with a a product called Faux Fabric, which is a textured spray paint. Before the paint is dry I put the foil on the model and conform it to the shapes of the model. If you wait for it to dry it will crack off the foil once you start crumpling it.

Weathering will basically be scratches and dinks on the white. I will apply the scratches and chips with a fine brush and a toothpick. I will use very thinned OD and Leather for creating scratches and rust. Than I will use some dark pastels to add soot to the engine panels. I will take some pictures as I progress.

Cheers,

CDT Reimund Manneck
U.S. Army ROTC

How can the weather be lousy in NYC? #:-)

Well, I am done with the chipping and scratching. My idea was to depict a tank that had been travelling thru some narrow passes, brushing past trees and bushes. Weathering was rounded up with oil paints to simulate streaks.




I still have to finish up weathering the lower hull. Unfortunetly I have to head back to school tonite and won't be able to work on my models until sometime in the Summer.
Hope you guys enjoyed what you have seen so far.

Cheers,

CDT Reimund Manneck
U.S. Army ROTC

That's looking excellent Bombshell! What was your method of scratching up the white paintjob? I like how the branch scratches were enough to take off the white, but not the base OD.

Just curious, I was wondering what the Americans typically used to whitewash their tanks. Did they use paints? All I know is that the Germans frequently used water soluable whitewash, which explains the wear a lot of tanks had after a few weeks.

Looking forward to the final product, it's a shame you're leaving us hanging

wow Bombshell,

it looks really nice ,
keep on the good work!

greets Sander