Water, like most model related items takes practice. So figure you'll do better next time.

If you make any of the changes Roy suggested it will only inhance your already fine work.

The wood sides look top notch and the colors of the tank are nice and varried and the bases sand and trees look great too.  Good job over all of displaying your Sherman.

Nice job, looks good

Wish I had room for dioramas 

Very cool Grant I like her!!! I guess the guys are right and the beach is a little clean but still nice work! 

Nice looking work. I have never did any water it seems like it would be hard.

T26E4......thanks for the Sherman fact. I have bin getting my Sherman info together and the different configurations are mind boggling.

Nice job, Grant! I'm considering doing a PTO Sherman very soon; a 92-year old friend of mine was a USMC combat engineer and operated with the somewhat famous "King Kong" on Saipan for several days.  (My friend later landed in the first attack wave at Iwo Jima and, despite heavy action, survived that terrible battle unscathed.)

Thanks for posting Grant.  May I make a few suggestions?  These are definitely on the nit-picky side so feel free to ignore them !

1) The conical antenna mount is a DML mistake -- that's a British item -- you want the US antenna (contact me offsite -- I have plenty to spare and can send you one).

2) That bolt strip on the glacis -- if you can still manage it, fill in the seam between it and the transmission housing.  The bolt strip was part of the transmission housing and not the glacis.

3) your coax .30cal MG is proturding too far.  In 1/35, it should be about 3-4 mm maximum.

4) the pry bar on the right side hull -- those two square ends are supposed to be the hull-mounted brackets and should be painted olive drab too.

5)perhaps not use the flag?  It looks toylike in this scale. 

6) the tow cable was attached to a bracket on the transmission housing on the left lower side.  Yours would trap the driver and stop him from opening his hatch -- very dangerous!

Hope these help.  Keep up the good work!

The armor is definetly the star of this show, but the base does set the scene. I like this.

Your beach seems unrealistically clean of ground clutter, but that's an easy fix should you choose to do so.

I see a wonderful showcase of talent and technique here. This is good modelling.  :)