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Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders ?
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 4:37 pm
by pickelhaube
They used them on the Jumbo and almost all the versions in one time or another in the European and Pacific Theaters.
I would not make the whole tracks just the ends.
Re: Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 5:58 pm
by ram04
Thats pretty cool, not sure I've ever seen them on a Sherman, how hard would those be to attach?
You say they used them in the Pacific and Europe?, seems just the thing for the swamps of the pacific.
Re: Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 7:07 pm
by 1958Zelda
Yes,I would be interested in two sets for sure,one for my firefly and one for a marine version in work.
Re: Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 8:48 pm
by pickelhaube
Any one else ?
Re: Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 12:36 am
by HardenSteel
Yup!
I'm in for a couple of sets
hd
Re: Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 3:37 am
by Panther F
Is this going to happen? I wouldn't mind a set if a cost can be divulged before hand.
- Jeff
Re: Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:31 am
by rschaap
I would like to outfit a couple of my Sherman tanks. I'm in.
Re: Any need for 1/18 scale Sherman duckbill track extender
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 4:12 pm
by pickelhaube
I am making these
I have made the masters and their moulds. I cast a few every time I cast other stuff.
When I get enough of them made I will make a gang mould for one full set.
Quite a few guys off of the forum want them as well.
Re: Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 1:07 am
by CanberraPaul
Hey Matthew
Will these be available with the Jumbo kit?
Re: Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:59 am
by pickelhaube
CanberraPaul wrote:Hey Matthew
Will these be available with the Jumbo kit?
Yes they have to be .
With the additional weight of the Jumbo they all had them.
So the Jumbo would not be correct with out them.
Re: Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 2:00 pm
by pickelhaube
Re: Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:36 am
by pickelhaube
I have my buddy Daremo ( he casted all of the new HUMVEE parts ) looking into casting the track lengths with duck bills connected.
The FOV tracks are in 2 parts so they will be about 13 inches long by about 1-1/4 inches wide. 2 on the left connected and same for the right .
He has cast some black rubber armor vests that feel the same as the FOV tracks .
I actually tried the FOV tracks on the BBI and 21st Shermans and they fit great ! The teeth line up perfectly with the main drive and if the price is right the tracks can go as replacement tracks with the addition of the duckbill ends . Which is correct in all theater and almost all makes of the Sherman !!!!!
I am not sure but the majority of all Shermans had the duckbills for most of the island hoping .
He will cast them in black.
Re: Any need for 1/18 scaleSherman duckbill track extenders
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 5:23 pm
by normandy
I'm up for a set, they'd look great in a winter diorama.