This is the model of 76 for the Ardennes?
I am trying to find a cheap kit or junked built for a KO'd sherman for a Dio I am tinkering with right now...but I am not sure what model or Submodels were common in 9 armoured or the 707.Tank Battalion/28th Inf...I figure M4A3 75 is the most common, but not sure on the suspension type if that matters.
btw, great job on the turret, although is there a muzzle brake on the 76s? or just some? again I don't know much of M4s.
M4A3 (76)W - 1/18th Turret Mod (First Try)
-
exether_mega
- Officer - Colonel
- Posts: 1314
- Joined: Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:35 am
- Location: Belgium
- Contact:
-
pickelhaube
- Officer - Brigadier General
- Posts: 9673
- Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:52 am
- Location: New Orleans
Can we have closer pics ?
Sherman stuff...
Minor correction; the M4A3 76mm Wet Stowage did not start issue in July, 1944 - that was the M4A1 76mm Wet Stowage (from the 300 that were being held in stocks in England). The Upgraded M4A3s started showing up in late summer (75mm Wet Stowage) and in the early-mid fall) (76mm and 105mm howitzer).
Early arriving armored divisions (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) came with M4/M4A1 75mm, they later got M4A3 75mm and 76mm as replacements. The armored divisions arriving in the fall (9, 10, 11, 12, 14) tended to arrive with M4A3s, as did the final batch in the spring of 1945 (8, 13, 16, 20). The equipment for the separate tank battalions followed a similar rythm, although many separate tank battalions were late in getting 76mm vehicles. Some units like the African-American 761st Tank Battalion drew M4A3 76mm Wet Stowage as their primary vehicles as that was what the depots had.
As stated the first production turrets had the slpit-cover loaders hatch with a gun ring, later turrets had the onal loaders' hatch. The 76mm gun might be an early pattern (no threads for a muzzle brake) or the M1A1 type that had the threaded muzzle with the threads covered with a protective steel cap. The M1A1C and M1A2 guns with muzzle brake are most associated with the M4A3E8, although some M4A3 76mm had them and a number of "Easy Eights" did not have muzzle brakes.
Modelers' trivia - the 76mm gun tube from gun shield to muzzle brake is about 8 feet long.
More modelers' trivia - the canvas dust protector between the turret and the gun shield was rare in WW2 - common by Korea.
Gary B.
Shermanoholic
Early arriving armored divisions (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) came with M4/M4A1 75mm, they later got M4A3 75mm and 76mm as replacements. The armored divisions arriving in the fall (9, 10, 11, 12, 14) tended to arrive with M4A3s, as did the final batch in the spring of 1945 (8, 13, 16, 20). The equipment for the separate tank battalions followed a similar rythm, although many separate tank battalions were late in getting 76mm vehicles. Some units like the African-American 761st Tank Battalion drew M4A3 76mm Wet Stowage as their primary vehicles as that was what the depots had.
As stated the first production turrets had the slpit-cover loaders hatch with a gun ring, later turrets had the onal loaders' hatch. The 76mm gun might be an early pattern (no threads for a muzzle brake) or the M1A1 type that had the threaded muzzle with the threads covered with a protective steel cap. The M1A1C and M1A2 guns with muzzle brake are most associated with the M4A3E8, although some M4A3 76mm had them and a number of "Easy Eights" did not have muzzle brakes.
Modelers' trivia - the 76mm gun tube from gun shield to muzzle brake is about 8 feet long.
More modelers' trivia - the canvas dust protector between the turret and the gun shield was rare in WW2 - common by Korea.
Gary B.
Shermanoholic
-
HardenSteel
- Sergeant
- Posts: 230
- Joined: Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:47 pm
- Location: Victoria, BC