1/35 M4A2 Sherman "US Marines"

[Guest]

Hi this is my next build M4A2 Sherman "US Marines"
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[scottie3158]

I'm in

[Guest]

Hi started with cleaning all the VVSS suspension parts, drive sprockets, idler, the only real bit was to thin down the tops return skid will be adding some more detail to finish them.
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[Guest]

I'm in

Your always welcome sir.

[minitnkr]

Oooh, fully articulated to go over lumps'n'bumps.

[Steve Jones]

Nice to see the numbers are on the boggies. That will save you a job :thumb2:

[Guest]

Nice to see the numbers are on the boggies. That will save you a job :thumb2:

Yes, very handy the casting marks being on, to be fair there are quite a few on this model.:smiling3:

[Guest]

Oooh, fully articulated to go over lumps'n'bumps.

Oh yes and the wheels go round.

[Jim R]

Hi Pete
Watching with interest. And not a Toon
Jim

[Guest]

Hi Pete
Watching with interest. And not a Toon
Jim

Yes thought I'd start this one as I can't paint the 1/35 Leopard yet as I haven't finished building my new paint bench, lost all interest in toons at the moment.

[BigGreg]

...chair pulled....Pete where the Sherman will be put in...l mean which landing/Island...

[Tim Marlow]

Looking forward to this. Nice refinement on the skid…raises the game straight away.

[Guest]

...chair pulled....Pete where the Sherman will be put in...l mean which landing/Island...

Hi Greg I
The diesel M4A2 was not used in the Pacific as far as I know, Chief of the Army's Armored Force, Lt. Gen.
Jacobs Devers ordered that no diesel-engined Shermans were to be used by the Army outside the Zone of Interior (the continental U.S.). The Army used all types for either training or testing within the United States, but intended the M4A2 and M4A4 to be the primary Lend-Lease exports.
Pete.

[BigGreg]

Hi Greg I
The diesel M4A2 was not used in the Pacific as far as I know, Chief of the Army's Armored Force, Lt. Gen.
Jacobs Devers ordered that no diesel-engined Shermans were to be used by the Army outside the Zone of Interior (the continental U.S.). The Army used all types for either training or testing within the United States, but intended the M4A2 and M4A4 to be the primary Lend-Lease exports.
Pete.

Got it....so it's not a "Marines" Sherman...no PTO then... :smiling:

[Guest]

The diesel M4A2 was not used in the Pacific as far as I know

The US Marine Corps received a fair number of them, both small- and large-hatch varieties, which they used from Tarawa (late 1943) through to Okinawa (spring 1945). The kit you’re building has the wooden additional armour (against magnetic mines) that the USMC added to many of its tanks in the later part of the Pacific campaign. It’s often stated that the Marines got these because they could use the diesel fuel that the US Navy also used for many of its engines, but the real reason is that the M4A2 was handed to the USMC simply because the tanks were available at the time.

The US Army did deploy M4A2s in the Pacific, on exactly one island whose name escapes me But this was basically a one-off deployment.