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1/72 Sherman WIP ****COMPLETED**** Now deconstructed

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Posted by Hercmech on Saturday, February 11, 2012 11:24 AM

Thanks for the tip on the white background Doggs!


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Posted by Hercmech on Friday, February 10, 2012 6:28 PM

Here are some more pictures. The first set is with a Mig filter coat. The second is right after I added oil dot filters. I have cleaned up the yellow on the front. Again...I am not an armor guy so be gentle.Wink

 

With the dot filter:

Next up...some pigments for dirt, adding the boogies, tracks, painting the lights, adding the ma deuce and then wrap it up.


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Posted by Hercmech on Sunday, February 5, 2012 1:12 PM

Very nice dio...mine will be just a plain Jane build. I do not have the patience/skill/space to do dios. I love looking at them though.


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Posted by the doog on Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:33 AM

Rob Gronovius

 

 jetmodeler:

 

 

 Hercmech:

For those of you interested in this kit, it does have a complete radial engine, drive train and transmission, as well as a hull floor. However, when it is all buttoned up you can't see any of it.

 

 

Really. Which kit is it?

 

 

It's a rebox of the very ancient Esci M4A1 Sherman; an excellent kit that was the bane of Braille scale Sherman modelers for years.

Hercmech, if I may---here's shot of the ESCI kit that I built up over 10 years ago--I built it as a burnt-out Sherman in a dio. You can see the engine in the bay here:

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Sunday, February 5, 2012 9:32 AM

jetmodeler

 Hercmech:

For those of you interested in this kit, it does have a complete radial engine, drive train and transmission, as well as a hull floor. However, when it is all buttoned up you can't see any of it.

 

Really. Which kit is it?

It's a rebox of the very ancient Esci M4A1 Sherman; an excellent kit that was the bane of Braille scale Sherman modelers for years. There was often debate about whether the turret/hull combination was a valid one (beyond Duplex-Drive Shermans). Photographic proof eventually appeared and Sherman modelers decided that the combo did exist, but was uncommon.

In the early 1980s, the one piece vinyl tracks were replaced by one of the first link & length tracks available in 1/72 scale. Italeri added both options to the rebox.

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Posted by the doog on Saturday, February 4, 2012 6:24 PM

Hercmech

Thanks for the tip doog! I will try it with white next pictures

No problem, Hercmech! I'm sure you'll be much happier with the results in the next series of photos! I think we all--me, wbill76, etc--all went through this issue of what background colors to use, and I've found white to be the most accurate tonal balancer. Light blue is the next best choice, but I've stuck to white now because most major magazines prefer white backgrounds for article submissions now and it's just good to be safe in case I want to write something up. Smile

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  • From: Democratic Peoples Republic of Illinois
Posted by Hercmech on Saturday, February 4, 2012 6:00 PM

Thanks for the tip doog! I will try it with white next pictures


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Posted by the doog on Saturday, February 4, 2012 11:46 AM

Looks good, but I would recommend that for a model this small, you ditch the bright blue background for the photos--it's really overwhelming the colors of the tank and obscuring the weathering or any shading that you might have presented.

. Try a white background, or at the very least a paler blue; you'll really get a much truer color fidelity in your photos.

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  • From: Democratic Peoples Republic of Illinois
Posted by Hercmech on Friday, February 3, 2012 3:14 PM

Italeri make it...here is a review of it. Pretty much sums it up but I did not have the issue with the tracks that the reviewer had.


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Posted by jetmodeler on Friday, February 3, 2012 3:05 PM

Hercmech

For those of you interested in this kit, it does have a complete radial engine, drive train and transmission, as well as a hull floor. However, when it is all buttoned up you can't see any of it.

Really. Which kit is it?

 

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  • From: Democratic Peoples Republic of Illinois
Posted by Hercmech on Friday, February 3, 2012 2:41 PM

For those of you interested in this kit, it does have a complete radial engine, drive train and transmission, as well as a hull floor. However, when it is all buttoned up you can't see any of it.


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Posted by Hercmech on Friday, February 3, 2012 8:44 AM

Thanks jetmodeler! 

The rain streaks were really visible before I put a thin coat of OD/buff over the kit to lighten it a bit.


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Posted by jetmodeler on Friday, February 3, 2012 6:34 AM

Looks good so far. I just barely see the rain streaks but I can see them.

 

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Posted by Hercmech on Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:52 PM

Thanks ron. Glad you liked the pictures


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Posted by spadx111 on Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:23 PM

nice so far liked the pics

Ron

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1/72 Sherman WIP ****COMPLETED**** Now deconstructed
Posted by Hercmech on Thursday, February 2, 2012 8:59 PM

Here are some shots of my little Sherman...been a while since I did a tank so be gentle. I did manage to get some rain streaking in with the airbrush but it is hard to see in the pictures.  I still have to weather and decal etc.:


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