Looking great Jeremy
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These accessories might help for your M32B2: 🏗 1/35 Scale M32B1 and M32B3 Fittings and Accessories・ 3D File for 3D printing・Cults
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Thanks very much. I saw this but the shape of the turret is incorrect. Early B2 (the first 5 apparently) had the angular turret but after Dec 1943, the rolled turret was evident. Apparently, there were two different contracts. Lullubelle and other B2 Pacific theatre ones I’ve seen, except one, have the rolled turret.Therefore, the Asuka model turret can be used. Details here…
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True but the conversion set has other parts that might be useful. Since they are 3D files, you only have to print out what you need.
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Yeah, you are right. Thanks. Unfortunately, I don’t have a 3D printer…
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This is the M32B2 interior almost completed. I used a Resicast basic Sherman interior for the driver and loader area and added ammo storage and radio. Also behind and underneath the drivers seat is a drive transmission to which power is transferred to and from this to the winch when the winch is used, so I added this and associated levers eg 1, 2. for power transfer and winch control.3 is a gyro.
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This man is my father. I have been led to your site by someone who is writing an article about Greeks who served in foreign wars. Although he was Greek, my dad was a US citizen and lived stateside when he joined the USMC. I have been amazed by what I’ve learned about my dad’s service in the Pacific Theater, as he didn’t talk a lot about his war years. The book “Tanks on the Beaches” is fascinating. I did know my dad’s tank was “Killer” and I have copies of the three pictures in “Tanks on the Beaches” that my dad is in as well as quite a few pictures of others in his battalion. You might be interested to know that there is a memorial park on Maui, where 17,000 Marines were housed in 2,100 tents, when not in battle, during the entirety of the Pacific Theater campaigns. In that park is a memorial to the 4th Marine Division, of which the 4th Tank Battalion was a part, honoring those who fought in the campaigns. The 4th Tank Battalion is on the primary memorial but also has a separate one just for the battalion, thanking the “tankers’’ for their service. I am unfamiliar with the modeling you are doing and what is done with the completed diorama but I thought you might find this information useful. Camp Maui was a thriving enterprise during WWII and is worth a look on the internet, if you have any interest.
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Well, the my post didn’t show up under the picture of my dad…Petro Kamilos, assistant driver of “Killer” so clarifying.
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I am really pleased you posted here. Thank you also for the information you shared. Much appreciated. Very interesting. I’d be happy to hear more.
As for the diorama, my aim is to represent a scene shown in the top photo with ‘Killer’ and representation of the crew, including your father, though slightly expanded. ‘Killer’ is the last vehicle to be made for the scene so it will be a while yet. The diorama should be finished next year and we may be able to organize a way for me to send it to you if you want it. I think we can communicate via the private email going forward if you would like to…
Thanks again,
Jeremy
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Yes, I would like that. I’m unfamiliar with this site so unaware of private email. I’d appreciate some info about that, unless you were speaking of our personal emails, which is fine with me. Thank you for your response! My son followed his grandfather’s path and is retired USMC officer. He’s very interested in all this history coming to light about my dad! Semper Fi
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Welcome aboard. You might need to post a few more times before the private messaging system works. Then click on his name and you should see a message icon.
I would be interested in hearing about any details you recall your dad mentioning about his time in Marines, his deployment with 4th Tank Battalion and what he did afterwards that campaign and Corps. Would also be interested in hearing more about your son’s career as well. Might have been in same places at the same time.
Semper Fidelis,
Ryan
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Hello Ryan,
Thank you for your interest. I really don’t know anything about this site, having been directed to it by someone who is writing an article about my dad, who as a Greek man, served in WWII in the Pacific Theater as a Tank Operator in the 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division. I’m now communicating with Jeremy off site and once I learn more about this site, the purpose of it and the dioramas I might feel more comfortable posting more information here. I joined the site so I could learn about the Killer diorama and how my dad and his history was being represented. What was your involvement and timeline with the USMC?
Semper Fi,
Eileen
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Hi again. I just realized if you go into earlier days of this posting thread and find the pictures of my dad with the tank crew you will find the names of the crew in the picture. Whether that was the only crew my dad was with I don’t yet know but I doubt it. I think he was probably with several crews but this was the Iwo Jima crew he was with.
Eileen
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Hi Nimrod,
Just catching up with this one. Loving the paint job on the tankette. It’s nice to see a Japanese tank with a hand painted camo and without the yellow ‘cross’ lines so often used by modellers (even when not appropriate).
The faded dusty look was also what I was after for the Ha Go on my last diorama…
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Thanks very much for this thread; I’ve started a collection of Marine Shermans and you’ve posted some pictures I haven’t seen before, especially of Killer with the Type 94 on the engine deck.
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Your going to want this book.
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Yeah, agree, and yours looks great, of course. I really enjoyed the hand painting of the camouflage. Much less stressful than airbrushing for me.
For info if anyone needs it on paints…
Base was Tamiya XF-60 Dark Yellow (airbrushed), green was Vallejo Panzer Aces 346 Splinter blotches and brown was Vallejo 70940 Saddle brown.
For comparison side-by-side with yours…my photo is a a bit rough. I’ll use a light box when all tanks are done
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Yessir, picked it up from David Doyle at the Nats. Have you ever seen “ Sherman in the Pacific War", by Raymond Giuliani? It’s one of my favorite reference books on the subject.
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