Looks like you can make make your kit marking choice from the I Love kit. What I see -without having the kit-is no muzzle brake or thread protector. You will also need to add the cover over the “horn”. The spare track holders shouldn’t be very difficult to scratch build. About half of the M1’s I have seen don’t have the blanket rack on the rear hull but you can’t tell from the photo. The camo netting on the side is easy to make from epoxy putty. This is one I made for a 1/35 Degem Alef.
Jeff
Every time I see the rolled up camo netting…I think of Princess Leia’s hairdo from Star Wars.
There is a muzzle brake in the kit…….not sure if there is a thread protector though…..I have seen pictures with both. I have sourced the hull number plates from another kits decal sheet.
If you like Shermans at all, you owe it to yourself to get at least one of Dr. Robert’s books. They are pricey, but have a world of info. My only complaint is that sometimes there are too many walkaround pictures. Volume 12 on top would cover what you are building. You should be able to sand down the barrel to suit your needs. I WILL NOT put icing on my camo netting!!
Yes….I have seen them, and they are nice….Shermaniac above recommended them also…. But I do not really build that many I just had this one in my stash and felt like building it for the Sherman campaign. I also have Andy’s M4A3E8 in this stash for down the road sometime.
Dr. Manasherob told me once via e-mail that while he initially planned a handful of volumes about IDF Shermans but the amount of material that he had collected was so vast that he then felt that 12 volumes then 18 and then he finally 22 total volumes would be needed to complete the project. I had hoped to collect all of them over the years but it’s been like 11 years since he’s released a Sherman book and now I don’t know if his one man project is scheduled to continue or not. I e-mailed a couple times after 2015 to check on his progress but he was busy releasing books about other IDF vehicles at that time.
I have all 8 volumes of his Sherman books, numbers 1,2,3,5, 6,10,12 and 14…but I don’t own the other books of other vehicles. I believe the last Sherman book that he released was volume 3 in 2015 and the first one I bought was volume 1 back in 2007.
Wow that’s a lot of information you have there….. I did just order this book as I got it on a good deal used on eBay it’s much more generalized but it’s something I’ll be able to use in the future.
I’ve never seen or held a paperback copy, I recall reading that they were like scans of the original books rather than reprints. Is that true?
That is true 
I used to own both Sherman and Patton in these reprinted versions, and as soon as I got them I wasn’t overly impressed. You can tell from the jagged edges to the text that these are scans rather than having been laid out properly from scratch. (I’ve since replaced both with originals when I came across them relatively cheaply — as in about the cost of the reprints — and sold on the reprints for the same amount )
But don’t get me wrong: the information in them is exactly the same, so the reprints are good books to get for that. It’s just that the reprints could have been better if they had been willing to make them more expensive — or even if they’d just scanned the books at a higher resolution than they appear to have done.
No…..I got a used copy…from EBay…..hardcopy…..that is just a stock picture I sent you…..the copyright date in the book is 1978……. So I believe that is the original publication……. I got it for $28 including shipping and all the other ones I saw were going for over $100 so I think I made out pretty good.
If it has a white dust cover with a blue linen cover under it (or just the blue cover, of course), that’s the edition you want And for US$28 you got a very good deal — mine cost me 40 or 45 euros (I don’t quite recall), which I already was happy with as it’s well below the going rate.
Yes…..I will see when it comes in……as i mentioned above…..every hardback copy is over $100.00 plus shipping.
I believe Taurus 1976 is the first edition, the presidio press 1978 is the second printing if I’m not mistaken. The copy I have is the 1978 and its previous owner used it as a coffee table book. Reeked of cigarettes before I aired it out some but still smells, also has some crayon markings on like 20 pages. The lady I bought it from in a garage sale said it belonged to her late husband and that their granddaughter had been the culprit in marking it up. I was actually able to gently remove a lot of the crayon with my finger nails. Some day I’ll hunt for a cleaner less stinky copy or maybe I’ll just be happy with this one. If I recall I haggled her down to $10 because it was missing the DC and it has a round coffee stain on the cover and the crayon markings but the book is solid binding is tight and all the text and images are just fine.
Great price……I am thinking this was a former library book.
I also already have this book on IDF vehicles….but it is not very in depth on M1’s…..much more M50’s and M51’s when it comes to Shermans.
Mine is the 1978 edition but a reprint from 1994, bought second-hand with this still in it:
For reference, £65 in 1996 is about £130/€150/US$170 in today’s money.
As for Israeli Sherman books, cheaper overall than the Lioness & Lion of the Line books is Israeli Shermans, Second Edition by Tom Gannon[1] and even though my experience with the publisher wasn’t exactly positive in the end, I would recommend the book
Tiptree: Barbarossa Books, 2017; ISBN 978-1-84768-023-5 ↩︎
Here is a hardcover of the Hunnicutt Sherman book 2nd edition…..still wrapped in plastic…..for a really good price if someone wants it.
Just looked that one up…..all over $100.00 here…..plus shipping.
The “Son of Sherman” reprint has a lot of updates on the first edition…that said since this one came out you can probably find a first edition cheap on e-bay as a lot of modelers probably selling the old one now that they have the new edition.
Here’s what the first edition looks like.
unfortunately the next two volumes of the first edition were never released, I think volume two was going to deal with modeling the kits that were available at that time correctly. I would still buy it now as I have a lot of those older Sherman kits in the stash.
