… excluding driver’s hatch & tracks, which are 50% there.
These photos are about 2 weeks old, some minor improvements (?) made since. Found the hatch in a remote part of the room’s floor, needs re-p.e. and brush guard. Tank will be dio’d as knocked out.
Any suggestions before I move on to painting? All welcome… let me have it. It’s my first real tank.
Looks really good to me. An impressive amount of additional goodies on this one! Are you making this Sherman knocked out (basing that on the two 88(?) shell holes in the glacis.)
Yeah, ko’d, though it will be a panzerfaust team standing around it in the finished dio. Probably got the holes too big for a bazooka, y’think?
Hi Steve: You’re right about Panzerfaust or Panzerschreck (bazooka) rounds. The damage they would inflict would be holes about only 1 inch in diameter. Hollow charge warheads defeat armor by a molten jet. Standard armor piercing rounds use kinetic energy to “punch” holes through armor with an extremely dense projectile – these leave the bigger holes or cracked armor. The indentation on the glacis around that entry hole doesn’t seem realistic either. Armor either gets gouged, pierced and cracked. Those kinda bulges only happen when something doesn’t pierce.
May I ask you why you substituted the MG post atop the hull and the radio mast? They seem sized wrong. Keep up the work on the armor though. It gets addictive and you get a lot more out of the kit box than aircraft!
Looking good!
A lot of detail in this.
Thanks for the imput… I made those holes in the very beginning before I knew exactly what would have defeated the tank. Mistake #1. I went with the panzershreck later because of a nice set of Warriors grenadiers I bought to round out the concept. I guess I can either sand, fill and redrill smaller holes, or leave out the fella with the pzshreck. I do want to get this right, but he’s got the best paint job so far. Don’t it figure? Yeah, I thought the MG mount might pass, but I didn’t think I’d get that antenna mount past anyone. It was a calculated act of impetuous detailing over the pursuit of accuracy. Plus, I wanted it to be metal so it could support the guitar string I have planned as the antenna. I appreciate this imput and have lots of room for more. Steve
Personally I like the look of the holes. I would use the Sherman in one dio and save the Panzerschreck for another. Shame to waste good work on either one