Jumbo Sherman finnished

D-Master, thanks.

Bodge, hate to see you shelve it..... I've got one in a dio that has the kit tracks, totally OOB, and looks fine. Also, the Dragon DS tracks are only like $14 US......

Thanks for the imfo , i will have to put this on the back bench now as i thought i could build out of the box and i have so many kits that i cant warrant spending out for tracks and transmision cover at this time as im saving for another hols, sorry guys this one will have to wait. If i could of used the tracks i would have handled doing the trans cover .

I wanted somethink quick and easy to build, i have a famo on the go but this one is a bit involved with loads of PE and so i only do when im in the mood. As i exspect some of you will have noticed im a bit lazy on the construction side of Armour and consentrate on my favorite bit the painting and weathering. i like straight forward building and im not that keen on PE although i do like scratch building some details.

RBaer wrote:

VERY nice job there too.

Bodge, here's an example of what I was talking about regarding the tracks. The first pic is a jumbo with the Acad tracks, the second pic is a Tamiya-based M4A2 76 (w) with the Tamiya tracks. The Tamiya tracks are accurate for some vehicles but all jumbos had EECs fitted from the factory on T48 tracks. I haven't seen anything else so far. Not a major issue, but characteristic of jumbos.....

Hope this helps.....the jumbo also has a TWS trans cover and turret.

Agreed.

I try to keep at least one of these things in the stash, easy now since they're cheap at the vendors' tables. 

Bodge, the DS T48 w/EEC tracks would really help this one, or if they're easier to come by, Academy also supplies them in its M4A2 PTO kit. TWS does a trans cover that works nicely also...

Personally, I would be careful on the weathering, since these tanks were realtively late arrivals in the ETO and wouldn't show a lot of chipping, if any, since the whitewash was water-based,  but that's just my take on it. Maybe rubbed off instead of chipped....however I'm very interested in what you come up with. Model on, Garth!

scratchmod wrote:

p.s.  You know how I'll be building it right.

....wouldn't want it any other way.

Another Sherman from Bodge, cool, I'll be watching. I'll be building a Sherman this fall for the Wings and Wheels show next year so I'm hoping to learn a thing or two about Shermans.

Rob

p.s.  You know how I'll be building it right.

I just got this kit a couple months ago! This thread will be intresting for me to wach.