1/35 Sherman Welded Turret kit
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/resin-tech-m4-76mm-sherman-turret-welded-construction
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/resin-tech-m4-76mm-sherman-turret-welded-construction
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Ok, haven’t seen that before.
Anyone else get a PT76 vibe from this? (the ruskie one, not Leyland)
Mal
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Haven’t seen that, EVER. I wonder was it just a drawing or was there a prototype?
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Hunnicutt mentions that project, in case casting facilities couldn’t attend demand for turrets. So surely drawings existed but nothing more beyond that.
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The drawing is in Hunnicutt’s Sherman.
KL
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Well if they can make paper panzers, 
now you get paper Sherman’s..
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I’ve never been into the fake stuff that never existed type stuff. As it is, I’ll never come close to building all the Sherman stuff that actually existed, field mod Shermans, oddball Shermans that saw service, and Sherman experimental vehicles etc…
If I don’t even have time for that stuff but I do appreciate someone going thru the trouble to create this paper Sherman turret but almost zero interest in ever doing something like this.
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I had a similar reaction and immediately thought it looked like German or Russian. It’s possible that the design was dictated by manufacturing limitations or that it was inspired by designs from other countries?
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Hard to say - not living inside the brain that created it - thought the RHS looked a bit like KT V2 turret, though suspect that would be parallel development time wise?
Mal
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Great, I’ll check this weekend when back at home.
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Interesting since there was the actual Sherman composite which was supposed to reduce demand for welds.
This design was created as a back-up in case of a disruption in foundry capacity. (The production of cast armor parts was production limiting to the end of the war.) It dates from 1942, as I recall, before the large hatch hulls (like the Zvezda kit that this kit turret is designed to fit) were even conceived.
As part of the improvement and standardization redesign of the Sherman the reduction of welds on the glacis was a goal to improve ballistic properties. Additionally, larger driver hatches were needed. The Chrysler’s composite hull was created to address these issues, but Fisher proposed using a single, thicker plate tilted forward to accommodate the larger hatches, which was the better solution. It did require a new casting for the forward hull roof though.
KL
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