This is “Doris” a D Co. Tank from the 4th Battalion. As you can see, the battalions really modified their vehicles quite differently. Wood, concrete, chicken wire and sandbags really set this apart from the 3rd Bat.
Basswood armor, apoxie sculpt filler for concrete as well as the sandbags. Bridal tule for chicken wire.
Tamiya’s old kit need some “tough love” and a fair bit of scratch building. Wading stacks and spare links courtesy of the Tank Workshop. Eduard PE for the hatch covers.
She’s a stunner. Nice to see a Sherman in something other than OD. [;)]
Nice work with the add-ons - the “chicken wire” is very effective. Those track links were welded on as applique armour and not carried as spares right?
The spare track links were all steel and spot welded grouser side in for two purposes. One, they made good supplemental armor, two, they could be taken off and used as spares in a pinch. With the welds on the outside (grouser side), it wouldn’t effect the rubber road wheels.
Wow, great work on your Sherman!!! I have an actual war time photo of this tank dug in on the beach from my grandfathers collection. I could post it if you would like. You can clearly see Doris as well as “Cleo” and “Buckaroo”(?).
Hey Wayne, great to see you back. Hope all is well.
Hey, I love this one. The Pacific Theatre is really kind of ommitted in the armoring world. Granted, not much tank-to-tank combat, but they were important nonetheless. I like all the handcrafted sandbags and the camo is a real eye-catcher. Really nice job.
Excellent work on this Sherman, G. I wonder how the average Japanese soldier/marine reacted to them, they must have been just as scary to them as a Tiger was to Allied troops. No tanks that they had could touch them.
One little criticism, though; when looking straight into the bow machine gun muzzle, it looks a little too pale in there, maybe a tiny bit of flat black in the barrel might do the trick.
ANNNND… … (to add more sweetness to Doris) with all that salt water around, you could get away with some vertical rust staining on the retaining bolts that hold the wood siding in place.
You obveously have done your homework. Those tanks never looked so light or “colored” in the battle film I have seen over and over. Recently a light went on when I was watching the flame throwing tanks work on Iwo and Okinawa that that would be a very groovy model to build and own but so far I haven’t found out anything about them except that there are some Iwo Jima tank decals on Ebay. I’ll be looking. Also I’m wondering if Lee tanks ever were flame throwers and where? Thanks for the great photos. Gonna add some GIs? Thanks, Paul Venne Bangkok Thailand
