Eyeballin' this one with glee! Lol

Squirrel!

Looks like you've put in a heap of work there. Very impressive.

Still plugging along here, doing lots of hear scrtching and page flipping. The Lion And Lioness of the Line book has lots of good pics and drawings, which help. I also need to order a couple more of the series, after the first of the year though...

IMG_4858 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

IMG_4859 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

IMG_5321 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

These pics aren't quite current, but it's been a very busy week at work. I need some bench time in a bad way.

Looks like they're coming along nicely to me. 

Got plenty of bench time, I'm just too friggin' lazy to move very fast though. 

I'm just slow. I did the infantry phone on the green hull, took me about two hours.....   and how in the world did I not notice I have this topic double-posted? 

Okay, I'm a dork. I'll use "this" one from now on, Mods, if you're watching, can you delete the other one?

Looking good. 

The cast FDA on the early tank was bugging me. Although it was not "wrong", it was unlikely on such an early M50, so I dug out the last MP 3-piece cover I had and swapped it out. Sounds quick, but it was a whole evening and a fair amount of putty, scrap and super glue, with MrSurfacer the final touch.

IMG_5881 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

I feel better now. It's not that all M4A4 hulls kept the 3-piece covers throughout their long service life, quite to opposite actually. But an early M50, still with the Continental engine would most likely still have had the 3-piece cover.

Not shelved! Having an abundance of time while at home, waiting for my mandatory off-work break due to Covid, I pushed ahead with these two while tinkering with a few more Shermans. I'm still finding a high degree of parts interchangeability between different manufacturer's kits, very helpful. The two turrets are moving along nicely, as well as some glacis detail on the "Bet".

IMG_5939 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

At this point, anything that fits and is appropriate is going on. I was surprised to find that Tamiya loader's hatches fit perfectly in both turrets, which is good 'cuz that's all I had.

I'm waiting to do any more on the M51 until I get the SabingaMartin book with the Gimel tanks. Right now I think I need to use the rear stowage bin instead of the folding rack I have on it, and maybe a couple of other things.

Also see Moose or only Squirrel?

Peace-

Boris

Looking good. 

Great to see you moving forward on this. Really need to get a pile of my stuff done. 

Hey Russ,how come those kits have so many different color plastics ? 

Making nice progress

Anthony, you got me.

Moving right along, turret fittings, empty smoke launcher brackets, tools, hull-side grab handles/tie downs and a lower barbed wire bracket on the Cummins tank.

IMG_6138 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

IMG_6139 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

I'm getting perilously close to paint time.