Here are pics of the new Tasca Sherman II "El Alamein" release. It's been a speedy build due to the excellent engineering and accuracy. Small areas of filler were needed but not bad at all.
I'm choosing to model "Cricklade" one of the decal options. In a photo I have, the turret lifting lugs are in the lowered position and the tools are missing. I placed the lugs in the correct position and am going to put ABER tool mounting bits on the hull. You see where I placed a weld bead on the rear turret bin as well.
In my excitement to glue together the main subassemblies, I missed Tasca's clear warning to line up the upper nose bolt strip (part C44) with the rest of the nose. You see a step there when it should be flush.
A minor nitpick is the taillights. In reality the lights mounted via a post at the rear of the taillight housing. Tasca molded this as a larger rectangular bit. I shaved back the Tasca parts (C32 & C33) and filled in the area on the hull.
Here's some small filling on the excellent VVS bogies
It's been a joy to build so far. I only started this a few days ago!
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