Group Build Description: A campaign for all things Sherman. All scales, eras, users, as long as it’s based on the M4 Sherman.
Event Details: Checking the Campaigns database, including closed campaigns, I don’t see that we’ve had a Sherman campaign since the site transferred to the new format several years ago. This is unacceptable! So here it is, a campaign for the classic American Sherman, the tank that won WWII despite German tanks being better that 10 M4s, because we always had 11. Any scale, any user, any era, as long as your model is based on the much-varied M4 Sherman.
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The Priest will be done for the “Fire for effect”-campaign, so I am leaning towards combining the Zvezda M4A2 and the Italeri M32B1 to make a USMC M32 in the PTO.
Michael, you beat me to it. I was going to post a “Shermans!” campaign in November to run all of 2024. Well I just joined this one instead. I’ve got a dozen Asuka kits and a couple RFM’s, not sure what I’m gonna do. So many possibilities!
I’m afraid I have a modeling problem, that I am in the middle of trying to corral right now. But at last count I have 30 M4 kits, mostly Dragon and Tasca/Asuka with a few Tamiya and Italeri mixed in, in various stages from still in the bags to “why the heck haven’t I just finished this one, already?”. But I’ll land on something. I’ve a long standing desire to do all three Thunderbolts and I have the kits and decals, so maybe one of those…
Hmmmmmmmmmmm…sounds very tasty indeed. Like ‘SSG Toms’ and you ‘michaelsatin’, I might have to add this campaign to all the other ones I never get to finish! But what Sherman kit? The Shermans I do have are all prepared with aftermarket…and to represent a few IDF bad boys from 1948 - present. One exception, however…neatly stashed away within the bowels of our hobby room is a Tamiya M51 that is completely dedicated to making a Chilean vehicle. With the conversion kit by Greg Buechler, helpful parts from Shapeways in the way of jerry can brackets, a detail set from Legend, a turned metal barrel from Chuanyu, some brass .30cals from Master, lovely pre-assembled metal tracks from R Model, nicely detailed guards for hatches/lights from TRex, and decals for Chile from Bison…I’ve got a good start. All in all, I just might have to throw this conversion into the mix.
But what Sherman kit? The Shermans I do have are all prepared with aftermarket…and to represent a few IDF bad boys from 1948 - present. One exception, however…neatly stashed away within the bowels of our hobby room is a Tamiya M51 that is completely dedicated to making a Chilean vehicle. With the conversion kit by Greg Buechler, helpful parts from Shapeways in the way of jerry can brackets, a detail set from Legend, a turned metal barrel from Chuanyu, some brass .30cals from Master, lovely pre-assembled metal tracks from R Model, nicely detailed guards for hatches/lights from TRex, and decals for Chile from Bison…I’ve got a good start. All in all, I just might have to throw this conversion into the mix. 