Ooh that looks like n interesting build!
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Wow Jakko… ambitious - I like it!
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A bit to late in the discussion, I jump in just to say thanks for the many sources of inspitation.
Really nice the particular of T54E1/E2 on the same tank. I think I have a lot of spares that could join to make one of those Sherman that fought in my country.
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@Jakko
Will be fun to follow your progress on this 
Are you going to drill out the two holes in the front hull for the extra machine-guns too?
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@steo
Some of the Italian units had some nice camo as well. On my bucket list is this beauty called “Eternity” it had an odd mix of mid production hull with M3 style bogies. But the Camo and the large markings really make it stand out to me. I’ll eventually get around to making this one.
I can’t believe I haven’t built this one yet.
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No, all I intend to do is make the rear corners more rounded, add side doors, enlarge the cut-out area in the upper rear plate, fit an M3 engine deck, remove the right rear ventilator, cut part of the turret splash guard away just in front of the fuel filler caps, build the assistant driver’s sight in place of his hatch, relocate the front and rear lights, put a circular surround on the front antenna base, reduce the size of the lifting eyes and modify the ball mount so it doesn’t have a shield — but I’m not going to drill holes for the twin machine guns 
This will be the earliest incarnation of the T6 medium tank, with the commander’s machine-gun turret and without the counterweights on the gun. Of course it will have the twin bow machine guns
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That’s a Second Armored Division, 67th Armored Regiment vehicle, isn’t it? That was my great-uncle’s unit.
Michael 
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Yes, you opened a breach in my memories!
In my college days I tried this:
My very first multimedia experiment, mixing parts from a Tamiya M3, a resin hull (forgotten origin) and really early Friul tracks discovered at an event from a meeting with its creator.
Years after years tracks sadly sagged and incorrect as it may be it testifies my spot for Shermy from young days..
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@Jakko
You got me on that one! I was thinking like first to see combat type of thing. You are building the “presentation day” version of the T6 prototype. It never occurred to me to do something like this without just buying the resin kit from Tiger Models. Something like this deserves its own thread and could become an important tutorial for anyone that’d rather build one of these out of mostly plastic. Look forward to seeing this one take shape
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Yes Jakko give this it’s own thread. This will be a great project.
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@Steo77
I don’t think I built anything from age 15 until age 35. That you found time to do that in college is impressive and the skill level you had already reached at such a young age is impressive too.
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@michaelsatin
Yes, 2nd AD, E Company, 2nd Battalion of the 67th Armored Regiment according to the Sherman Minutia Website. Sicily July 10th, 1943.
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Thank you so much, my father took me to a local model shop at the age of 10 and bought me a German halftrack. That how it began!
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And to go on with this campaign (can’t stay off Shermans) I may build the sidekick to the M12 I built last year: I have the outcome of a bargain ready to piece together an M30
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Success!
Whereas I saw that kit and thought, “All of that I can do myself with some plastic kit parts, for a quarter the price” (I did buy Resicast’s Sherman V DD, because I do not envision myself scratchbuilding the skirt. Or, well, I can envision myself doing that, but I really don’t want to.)
And yes, I fully intend to give it its own thread. I’ll just cross-post some bits here every so often, like for the M4 (105 mm) I’m still slowly finishing.
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Resolved my track problems: if in doubt, rob a Tamiya kit!
which is what I should have done in the first place.
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Before I start tackling the remainder of the hull and the turret, an application of model railway flock to the chassis to represent mud.
For interest’s sake, a small German handcart which will be incorporated into the finished set-up:
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Flock put to good use! Noted!
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