discussion Can you guess what it is yet?

[David Lovell]

Answers on a post card please ,have covered up part of box top to keep you guessing, 1/72 scale and olive drab even after all these years never dabbled in olive drab,made a start then a misdirected scalpel blade put a end to play


A bit sore but have done a bit more today will reveal all tomorrow. Dave.

 

[boatman]

its a sherman an a cut finger lol why does this keep happening ?
chris

 

[Gary MacKenzie]

M4A1 body .......

 

[David Lovell]

Keep guessing will post pic of kit tomoz

 

[rtfoe]

its a sherman an a cut finger lol why does this keep happening ?
chris

Must be the Simon syndrome after effect still lingering into this build. Could it be a Sherman Firefly? The hull looks extended for an M4A4.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[Guest]

It’s a very early medium tank M4 or M4A2 (impossible to tell which without seeing the engine deck or hull rear), with direct-vision devices in front of the drivers’ hatches and medium-duty VVSS bogies, but for some reason already fitted with the stamped type idler instead of the spoked type.

 

[rtfoe]

On second thoughts can't be a Firefly as there is still a bow machine gun. Perhaps a recce tank with no turret? Nope not that either...looks American though.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[Tim Marlow]

Don’t know, but it has a really useful aiming mark at the front of the hull :flushed:

 

[David Lovell]

OK I think only two were built problems with the weapon systems ended the trials ,or the whole thing didn't live up to the expectations is more likely.


Nice little kit includes a bit of resin little fret of etch ,have done a bit more since the pics ,got the link and length done on one side with no major dramas, will keep updating as I go ,paint arrived today so no holding back. Dave

 

[Tim Marlow]

Interesting little beastie isn’t it Dave......personally I’ve never heard of it.

 

[Si Benson]

Now that’s something different! Hope the scalpel bite is on the mend....they can be vicious if provoked :smiling5:

 

[Guest]

There’s some info about this vehicle on page 389 of Hunnicutt’s Sherman. It was proposed by Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, of all people companies, and designated as the Multiple Gun Motor Carriage T52 on 30 July 1942, the first prototype delivered in March 1943 was and the project was cancelled in November 1944. Basically, it’s an American predecessor of the German Flakpanzer Kugelblitz of a few years later As David says, two were built.

Also, I was right about the idler wheel The photo in Sherman shows the prototype to have had a spoked idler, not a stamped one.

 

[rtfoe]

Wow...that one went way left field. Very rare and weird but interesting had it been into production. I guess the main problem is that the gunner was blind...where are the apertures?:smiling2:

Cheers,
Richard

 

[David Lovell]

Hi Richard one of them the box pic saying go on you know you want to ,plus I've never done the olive drab thing let alone built anything allied, will probably finish it as if it was seeing combat rather than kinda new ,I think that there were quite a few paper shermans(panzers)so could be a nice little getaway from my norm. Trouble is I'll have to explain to John R I can only do the 4B0 club on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. Dave

 

[Guest]

The gunner’s sight opening is on the right side of the turret, but it’s hidden by the curve of the turret in the boxtops photo. You can see it here:

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[stillp]

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[scottie3158]

David,
Now that is something different I will follow along.

 

[David Lovell]

Hi all thanks to Jakko for the pics, timing not quite right else I might have had a go at the turret sight/vision port thingy didn't want to break the guns ?.
Anyway build went with no major problems ,as earlier mentioned in all the years never done a olive drab number and saying I've a few allied builds in the stash this is more about the paint job rather than the build



You know how I said about breaking the guns well here it is with the primer on and a broken 50cal barrel

Work tomorrow but rest of week looking a bit bleak so who knows it might well see some paint. Dave

 

[scottie3158]

Nice result mate an interesting looking beastie.

 

[Guest]

Nice model, of a very odd-looking vehicle. Looking at it makes me wonder why they set the turret so high: the whole thing elevates, and wouldn’t ever need the amount of depression possible with the pivot height as it is.

As for the sight: you could build something like it onto the turret face, without cutting a recess in it.

Are you going to finish this as the prototype or as an in-service vehicle?