Small Scale Military Headquarters

Finally finished my Easy-Eight, the final WWII version of the Sherman. All I need to do is tweak the stowage gear setup, but she's pretty much done.

I up-armored my Sherman as well.




And the exhaust-deflector, also from Nick.


Once I buy some scale ropes and wires from etoarmour, she'll finally be 100% complete!

Very

if it weren't for the grass i'd swear it was a real tank.....awesome.

I gather that's the Tamiya kit?

Very nice.

WOW niceeee

Outstanding work as usual!

Is that Nick Aguilar's Resin T23 Turret kit?
I really like the extra armor plate...there is a shot in the book "M4 Sherman at War" pg. 6 of a M4A3(76)W HVSS with the additional plate to off set pesky German AP that is a spitin image of your sheman.

Are you going to add the foul weather canvas surround on the mantlet?

Thanks guys. Aferg, yep it's the old Tamiya kit with aftermarket conversion for the 76mm HVSS.

Yoxford, yeppers that's the T-23 turret I told you about. I gotta get that book as well. I used Modelling the US Army M4 (76mm) Sherman Medium Tank by Steven Zaloga for reference pics and for inspiration.

I thought about adding the canvas on the mantlet, but I read that its actually quite rare for WWII US tanks to have those, but they're a lot more common during the Korean War.

That's why I opted not to put one on my Pershing as well, despite the fact I already put the mounting brackets for the canvas already.

what scale is this?

Very well done. I had hoped that BBI would some day make a Sherman with the T-23 turret but don't see it happing. The additional armour on the front reminds me of the Jumbo Shermans. I alway wondered how much more effective the Jumbo would have been with the "Easy Eight" suspension and plenty of Hyper Velocity rounds.