Hi Nick,
There isn't a lot online about the lend-lease Shermans, but here's a good page with some pics...
http://www.battlefield.ru/lendlease/sherman.html
Some of the images don't show up properly though. Here's the same page in Russian where all of the images appear...
http://www.battlefield.ru/lendlease/sherman_r.html
You might be interested in a couple of decal sets from ACE. Here's what they look like...
Those are from the ACE website...
http://www.acemodel.com.ua/?p=decals&l=en
Here's a review...
http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/ace/ace35001.htm
It mentions using a book,
"Tank, Lend-Lease 1941-1945," from Exprint as it's reference. Here's more information about the book. It mentions photos of serial numbers and shipping data...
http://www.missing-lynx.com/reviews/russia/exprintll.htm
I haven't used the decals, so I can't confirm that they contain the shipping stencils, but they do appear to be there. Here's a company which has the set. Maybe contact them and see...
http://www.scalehobby.com/default.php?manufacturers_id=68
By the way, if you're interested in the Lend-Lease Shermans, there's an excellent book you'd like....
Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks by Dmitriy Loza. Here's a review of the model which mentions Dmitriy Loza and his book...
http://misc.kitreview.com/armourreviews/dml6188reviewcs_1.htm
Quote:
"Loza notes the Russians really loved the tank, dubbing it the "Emcha" (from its Russianized pronunciation -"Em Chetyriy") and calling themselves "Emchisti." (They also loved the fact that every new one appeared to come with a fifth of American bourbon packed in the gun breech, a gift from American workers to their Soviet comrades!)"
Amazon carries it...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0803229208/qid=1124939658/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-4920783-7174553?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Here's an interview with him to give you a sense of what he's like and the things he has done...
http://www.iremember.ru/tankers/loza/loza1.html
Here's an exerpt...
"On the one hand this rubber-coated track was a big plus. In the first place, this track had a service life approximately twice that of steel track. I might be mistaken, but I believe that the service life of the T-34 track was 2500 kilometers. The service life of the Sherman track was in excess of 5000 kilometers. Secondly, The Sherman drove like a car on hard surfaces, and our T-34 made so much noise that only the devil knows how many kilometers away it could be heard. What was the bad side of the Sherman track? In my book, Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks, there is a chapter entitled "Barefooted". There I wrote about an incident that occurred in August 1944 in Romania, during the Jassy-Kishinev Operation. The heat was fearsome, somewhere around 30° C. We had driven approximately 100 km along a highway in a single day. The rubber linings on our support rollers got so hot that the rubber separated and peeled off in long pieces. Our corps paused not far from Bucharest. The rubber was flying around, the rollers had begun to jam up, the noise was terrible, and in the end we had been stopped. This was immediately reported to Moscow. Was this some kind of joke, an entire corps had halted? To our surprise, they brought new support rollers to us quickly and we spent three days installing them. I still don't know where they found so many support rollers in such a short time. There was yet another minus of rubber track. Even on a slightly icy surface the tank slid around like a fat cow. When this happened we had to tie barbed wire around the track or make grousers out of chains or bolts, anything to give us traction. But this was with the first shipment of tanks. Having seen this, the American representative reported to his company and the next shipment of tanks was accompanied by additional track blocks with grousers and spikes. If I recall, there were up to seven blocks for each track, for a total of fourteen per tank. We carried them in our parts bin. In general the American representative worked efficiently. Any deficiency that he observed and reported was quickly and effectively corrected."