Here are my two lastest rebuilds 1 is my tamiya /hobbyboss m4a1 76mm redone to an m4a1late 75mm ,finding one of these that wasn't a dd drive was a challange but i found one of the 6 th amomred division and as my 76 had some mistakes i thought here's a good chance to fix things and improve my model ill put in some before and after's and some pic's of my other project which is an m4a3 75mm dry early



these are as it is now this is what it looked like

that was before paint now for the with paint

the next photo's are of my m4a3 dry early


i had to build anew defelector and a new rear and engine deck from a hobbyboss m4a3e8 the rest tamiya these are the before photos ,next paint thanks for looking wayne

B-E-A utiful as my boys would say! Neat mix and match to get different versions and there are a lot of possibilities. Keep up the good work. Looks like your having fun!

Rewarded with apparently superior results! I like the way you went off the beaten path and succeeded!

Hard to keep everything square isn't it? Maybe the Sherman's shape makes it easier...

Gaston

That is a fantastic mix and match - lots of variants and no wasted parts !

Konrad

Nice stuff Wayne; Love those odd variants. Where did you find a pic of a late large-hatch M4a1 with a 75mm turret that wasn't a DD? That I would love to see. Chris Schwach

hi chris i found the photo on a 6th amoured division site run by mike canaday i think i spelt his name right.But i had a better look at the photo it shows it fitted with acullen device and im now starting to think that i ve got it wrong an i need to ripp the front grauds off as that would then tie it up with a photo of an ex dd in france with all the dd gear off its in steve zolaga's tank battles in france .Photo's of them are few and far between but i think the late m4 a1 hull suits the 75 turret better than the 76 .catch you later wayne

hi Wayne: Nice to see the work progressing. If I can point something out to you: on both the M4A1 75 and the M4A3, you have protruding wire handles on the engine deck. On the real tanks, these handles dropped down into the panel so as to not be in the way. Only their horizontal portion would sit flush against the panel. Hope this helps.

Roy Chow
AMPS 1st Vice President
http://www.amps-armor.org

The cast-in applique armor was done to reduce the effort to add the applique to cast hulls. APG had a couple of these I saw before I left in the late 1970s. The pix I have are NOT stripped DD tanks, but regular gun tanks, a very interesting minor variation on the M4A1 75mm Sherman.

you guys are adding to my understanding of the sherman ,it is agrowing thing ,i just hope it dosn't take 15 years for me to get a handle on like getting to know the 109 mind you im starting to think that the sherman is just as bad for variations but ill keep building them i just wish the hunnicutt book would come available at agood price not the outragous ones ive been seeing on amozon have fun wayne