T26E4 Super Pershing
Equilibrators were scratchbuilt from plastic tube because the Accurate Armour part had a bad seam on the underside.
Spare track links are from WWII Productions, same as fitted around the wheels later on, because they were sharper than Accurate Armour’s parts. The brackets for them are simple scratchbuilds from thing plastic card and a punched bolt head.
Periscopes in and around the driver’s hatches are Verlinden resin parts
Commander’s vision cupola is the Tamiya part, because Accurate Armour moulded it with the wrong orientation: with the hatch at rear right, like on production Pershings, rather than at the rear as photos of the real T26E4 show it to have been
Tracks are WWII Production resin separate-link type, just clicked together without glue
Comments
5 31 January 2021, 17:57
NeulingVery good work! I wonder what those two tubes on the turret were attached for?
1 February 2021, 10:25
Jakko They're equilibrators, in other words, they serve to balance the gun by the springs contained inside them. Photos of the prototypes at an earlier stage show the springs, for example at tanks-encyclopedia.c..t26e4-super-pershing but tubes were added over them to protect them later on.
1 February 2021, 14:38
Jakko Thanks, back then my figure-painting skills were better than they are now 🙁
4 February 2021, 09:24
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The T26E4 Super Pershing prototype as it was used in action in Europe in 1945.
