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Post by CarlRF (R.I.P.) on Nov 8, 2017 17:43:22 GMT -6
Welcome !
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Post by Beekster on Nov 8, 2017 17:49:44 GMT -6
Oh darn, I guess sir is out of the question?  Yeah, I only lasted a year in Army ROTC and never got a commission so "Sir" isn't warranted, either. Something about a girl altering my focus did me in way back then; she's still hanging around for reasons I can't fathom. Been together 35 years now and married 32 of them. |
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Post by JCON on Nov 8, 2017 17:53:48 GMT -6
Glad you made it over here from the other site, as you can tell we are quite alive here with lots of excellent builders of all genres!!! Please feel free to invite the few people still sharing on the other site to join us here... sad when the admins and mods don't even answer you there. Glad to see Bruce invited you in!!! Bring your builds to life where they will be truly appreciated and who knows you may inspire me to build a Sherman someday!!! |
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Post by Beekster on Nov 8, 2017 18:02:59 GMT -6
Glad you made it over here from the other site, as you can tell we are quite alive here with lots of excellent builders of all genres!!! Please feel free to invite the few people still sharing on the other site to join us here... sad when the admins and mods don't even answer you there. Glad to see Bruce invited you in!!! Bring your builds to life where they will be truly appreciated and who knows you may inspire me to build a Sherman someday!!! I hope so! They are a fascinating subject, what with all the variants, factory-specific details, and sixty year history of service and modification around the world. Research is always key, and I'm happy to guide that process (I was a teacher once, for a little while, long ago...). All I ask is that you pay attention to what I say. There's a modeler out there who I have since lost touch with who prompted my only real exasperation on this topic. He was something of a prodigy who started building in early middle age and had a flair for painting and weathering and fast work. He decided he wanted to build a Sherman, and on impulse bought a Dragon M4A4. He wanted to do it with the Ma Deuce .50cal MG on the turret, and I had to tell him that the variant he chose was all sent to Britain for Lend-Lease and it was exceptionally rare for them to ever use the heavy MG. We went round and round on that; he just didn't want to accept that he should have told me what kind of project he had in mind before buying a kit that wasn't going to give him the particular look he wanted if he intended to build a historically accurate model. And life goes on... |
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Post by JCON on Nov 8, 2017 18:12:24 GMT -6
LOL... I actually will be looking for one used by the IDF in the future... I have decals for it that came with the extra market ones I ordered for my IDF AMX 13/75.   |
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Post by Beekster on Nov 8, 2017 18:20:14 GMT -6
Just tell me which one you want to do and how detailed you want to get, and I'll point you in the right direction. I have both of Tom Gannon's volumes and all of Robert Manasherob's books, too. Also the ancient Verlinden booklet, Moustafa Assad's book on the M50 in Lebanon, and copies of the ancient Vasco Barbic articles for Military Modeller just for perspective on how far we've come since then. And most everything else published on the Sherman or it's relatives in the last two decades...
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Post by JCON on Nov 8, 2017 19:09:40 GMT -6
Fantastic, when it comes time you will be my go to guy!!! |
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Post by Mence on Nov 9, 2017 1:57:45 GMT -6
I'm almost scared to blog a Sherman now with such a knowledgeable member on board, I had better stick to cars!  Beekster, seriously fella, do you have a shortlist of relatively accurate Sherman kits on the market? |
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Post by BUCKY on Nov 9, 2017 3:29:01 GMT -6
I predict some fabulous Shermans coming our way in the near future!! Very glad to have you on board, Greg!! And like Joe said, we have room for your fellow members of the other site, if they would like to join in with a laid back forum!
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Post by cliffj (R.I.P.) on Nov 12, 2017 16:09:59 GMT -6
Welcome Beekster!! Your knowledge of Shermans will be a definite help to me. I mostly build WW2 German but I also do Allied of the Sherman family of WW2. I have in the stash awaiting the bench is Dragons 6062 M4A2 Tarawa that I will need some info on. Of all the M4s that I have built this is my favorite, I added the corrected Formations turret to it...  |
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Post by JCON on Nov 12, 2017 16:13:15 GMT -6
Nice one Cliff...
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Post by Beekster on Nov 12, 2017 17:52:45 GMT -6
I'm almost scared to blog a Sherman now with such a knowledgeable member on board, I had better stick to cars! Beekster, seriously fella, do you have a shortlist of relatively accurate Sherman kits on the market? Yep...everything Tasca/Asuka. There are small niggles with them, like minor stuff has to be changed to represent a specific factory, but they are all superb and build easily. I can't really recommend Dragon. Tamiya is good for their M51, though it has the usual Tamiya flaws like molded-solid grab handles and it only represents one early stowage/engine deck configuration. But robbing from a Dragon kit or the aftermarket can fix those. For variants, the Tamiya M10 is supposed to be pretty nice; haven't bought one yet. Academy's are useful only for spare parts like the transmission & seats for other interior builds since they are all four scale inches too narrow and that wrecks the proportions. For an M36, nobody does one quite right. AFV Club is closest, but the turret bustle is about an eighth of an inch too short and the hull too wide. I'd consider altering a Tamiya M10 hull along with a corrected AFV Club turret for an M36B2, or do some hull corrections for the Ford engine to make a standard M36.
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Post by Zod (R.I.P.) on Nov 12, 2017 19:32:01 GMT -6
Dude.
Great seeing you here.
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Post by Mence on Nov 13, 2017 3:46:20 GMT -6
I'm almost scared to blog a Sherman now with such a knowledgeable member on board, I had better stick to cars! Beekster, seriously fella, do you have a shortlist of relatively accurate Sherman kits on the market? Yep...everything Tasca/Asuka. There are small niggles with them, like minor stuff has to be changed to represent a specific factory, but they are all superb and build easily. I can't really recommend Dragon. Tamiya is good for their M51, though it has the usual Tamiya flaws like molded-solid grab handles and it only represents one early stowage/engine deck configuration. But robbing from a Dragon kit or the aftermarket can fix those. For variants, the Tamiya M10 is supposed to be pretty nice; haven't bought one yet. Academy's are useful only for spare parts like the transmission & seats for other interior builds since they are all four scale inches too narrow and that wrecks the proportions. For an M36, nobody does one quite right. AFV Club is closest, but the turret bustle is about an eighth of an inch too short and the hull too wide. I'd consider altering a Tamiya M10 hull along with a corrected AFV Club turret for an M36B2, or do some hull corrections for the Ford engine to make a standard M36.
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Post by dustymojave on Nov 27, 2017 22:28:15 GMT -6
As I used to like to say to my Tank Commander brother (A1E2 mostly and various Soviet armored when he was a specialist in OPFOR training): "Yes Sir! Sargent, Sir!!" Just to irritate him. Got him every time. |
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