Looking very good Bert 
This one has some difficult times after him, like it.
Looking forward to see the hatches fillet with crew members.
Cool! I built this exact type of M50 just last year with the cast hull and the wide tracks but mine doesn’t look anywhere nears as nice and remains unfinished, LOL
this type of M50 shows up in a few photos but as far as I know you have to kitbash to make one of these, I’m pretty sure it’s never been released like this in kit form…
Beautiful work!
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Looks very good and I like how you got the dusty look and the stowing 
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Beautiful work Bert , a better camera would make it beautifulerer .
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@Micke_MM thanks, glad you like it!
@Shermaniac Thanks, I never realised this was such an interesting kit, got this as a second hand kit with everything in it. Glad you like it and hope you’ll be able to finish yours someday.
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Thanks, I know, I am just using my phone…
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@bwilt
That M50 you just finished with the wide track and the cast hull, was that the same kit you started building in July as an M51? Did you decide to make it an M50 instead? Back in July you started a second M51 based on the Italeri hull with what looked like a DML HVSS track conversion set, plus a Verlinden M51 turret…then when you showed an update you were working on this M50…I was just wondering if it is the same project you started in July and if you decided to switch gears and make it an M50 instead of an M51?
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@ReluctantRenegade
Nice photo! Here’s one from behind
And Another two from behind
The IDF really liked the cast hull M4A1! They made the most powerful Sherman ever (M51) mostly out the M4A1 type hull…
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Yepp, both were photographed in Jerusalem during the Six Day War.
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M50s on a parade. The right one has a composite hull with 3-piece transmission cover.
M4A3 (left) and M4A1 based M51s, both with wide tracks.
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It is indeed the kit I started in July as an M51… It was an Italeri M4, in the box was a Verlinden set, etc… but that turret didn’t really fit to well, so I took the turret I had left of the previous M51, including its barrel, so I suppose that is the M50 turret and barrel.
So actually this one is a bit of a mongrol, bits of all kinds of kits, no idea if this version ever existed… but that is not to important to me, I just liked to build this, and changed parts as I went along, and as such it represents very well the abundancy of Smermans and parts the IDF used in those early years to create tanks they could use…
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@Shermaniac and @ReluctantRenegade thanks for the great pictures, one of them really looks like the backside of mine, with the tarp covered stowage on the back… 
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@bwilt
The pictures above prove that type of M50 existed, your version would’ve been an early version of the M50 that still had a radial engine before the conversions to diesel engines which required a modified engine deck
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Looking forward to see the crew painted, these figures looks good.
Are they special made for this kit.
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I am gobsmacked by the size (and ambition) of this project. And, to say the least, in awe of your talents. Looking forward to seeing the final dio! WOW.
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Thanks Jan, no, as far as I know it is a set that was made for a Pershing tank… or thats what I think… but they do fit here as well.
For all the stowage you’re going to need a whole lot of “rope”. There’s a fellow in Toronto (Ontario, Canada) who makes scale ropes for ship modellers - they are incredible. They are miniature ropes, not sewing thread. No idea how he does it but, damn.
His web site: https://ropesofscale.com/
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