Hi
I’d like to welcome all great modellers from planetArmor, this is my first post in vBench blog, and first work after a 3 years break in modelling.
What I want to show you is Sherman M4A1 (76)W from Dragon – 1/35 scale.
I think that there is no need in telling about Sherman history, because everyone knows this tank from many Second World War battlefields, so I can move on to describing my work with this model.
At the beginning I had a big problem with making decision about what kind of Sherman I want to make. There are many Sherman variants so it’s hard to choose one, but finally I’ve decided to make M4A1 (76)W tank, because it’s easy to find documents and publications about it that can really help in making a model which closely corresponds to historical facts. Of course I’m sure that I could make some mistakes, and I hope that you can tell me what I made wrong.
For the most time I used an S. Zaloga publication "Modelling the M4 (76MM) Sherman" - it have really helped me to avoid some serious mistakes.
I was very disappointed after opening a box, because the body of tank haven’t got a right shape and the turret comes from M4A3 version instead of M4A1, so I was forced to change casting numbers place. I have also rebuilded split hatch. The hardest part was to fill some holes that I found between lower hull and tank body.
Here are the photos where you can see the results of my work, please about your comments and opinions!
The most difficult thing to do was making a covers for periscopes (They are soldered from copper wires) and whole drivers hatch.
Using the same technique as for periscopes I have also made stowage rack. All photoetch parts are from Aber.
Best regards
Robert Ruszczyk
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