Hi all,
I’m just wondering if sandbags were ever placed around the hull and turret on the “jumbo”. I can’t find any pictures that specifically show a jumbo with sand bags, instead just random sherman variants with sandbags. Would it be totally wrong if i was to put sandbags around the hull ?
Thanks
No, you wouldn’t be totally wrong. I’ve got a photo around here some place that shows Gen. Patton chewing out a “jumbo” crew for having sandbags on their tank. Go for it, can’t have enough protection late in the war. Don’t want to be the last casualties of the war!
Awsome, thank for the replies guys !
cya
Hate to interrupt but I think the picture Dan posted is of an Easy Eight and not of a Jumbo.
Yup thats an easy 8 alright.[:D]
heehee…shows how much mumbojumbo I know !
Did anyone mention the photo shows an M-4-A3-E8 (easy eight) and not a Jumbo?[:o)] [8] [;)]
I’ve never seen any pictures with the Jumbo sporting sandbags, but who’s to say it never happened? Depends on how “precise” you want to be. If you need photos, don’t do it. If not, take a bit of modeler’s license and throw them on.
Joe[:-^][:-^]
I stand corrected, that’s the photo I was thinking of and it’s clearly an easy 8 not a jumbo. My bad. After looking through all my Sherman stuff, like Joe, I can’t find a photo of a jumbo with sandbags. Sorry for the misleading info.
I didnt look close enough when I posted the photo, Steve…I just saw your post and thought…I have seen this photo…
all the sherman crews added all the sandbags, armour plate or concrete to upgrade there armour to be like the Jumbos M4A3E2
so i dont think there will be any?
ill have a look just in case
AAAAAAAAH sorry to be off topic but why does that horse look like me?(I mean as hidious as myself)why is it so distorted?
lol
if you think about it, it doesn’t seem like sand bags would work on a jumbo. Tank crews welded on the frame work/ supports on the shermans to hold the sand bags on alot of the time, and with the steep flat front hull of the jumbo, i dunno if it would have worked just putting it on, and if they would have been able to weld extra metal to the increased armor, but that’s just me speaking, and i don’t know about welding, so i may very well be wrong
too late ! already orderd the sandbag kit, oh well, can always save it for another sherman 
meh, what the heck, have some fun with it! put’m on! i’m sure there was at least ONE crew that ATTEMPTED (at the very least) to use 'em!
I guess I have a lot to learn about armor…the last tank i built was a sherman about 7 years ago, and I had no idea there were so many variants of it floating around during WWII. One in particular that caught my eye was in the reader gallery of FSM recently…I believe it was a build of the command tank of Gen. Creighton Abrams. Looked like a heavily beefed up sherman compared to the ones I’m used to seeing.
Can anyone recommend the books or online resources that you use as references for these variants? And how well stocked is the model market with these different shermans in 1/35th? From what I’ve read online and seen in the magazine ads, Allied armor is a little outnumbered…
Hey AH1Wsnake,
Try this site,
http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=index&req=viewtopic&topic_id=6853&page=1
or this one,
http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/m4sherman.html#TOP
Hope these will be of some help.
Joe
As far as the angle of the front plate, the crew could have wedged a board between the two fenders and piled them on. Ive seen quite a few Shermans with that easy mod done to them.
ive seen 1 photo of a M4A3A2 Jumbo with sand bags on the front only, and its got cammo on top of them