U.S.M4A3 76 mm Sherman

Dirk Heyer
Hi Christian,
wish you a lot of fun with your Sherman built. Do you like to use the vinyl tracks? If you think to do a change and you want to select an alternative track for your M4A3 have a look at this fine cast tracks!
track48.com/shop/pro..mp;cat=67&page=1
Garfield Ingram, the owner of Track 48 is absolutly reliable and he like it to see your products on his homepage later! 🙂 I have him in mind as an enthusiastic modeller and distributor!
He like also aircrafts in scale 48!
Greetz Dirk

Christian Lehmann
Hi Dirk,
thanks for this hint. As written above a friend of mine provided me the tracks , bogies and traction wheels of a Tamiya M4A1 kit which I plan to use. They are no seperate links but I think they are o.k. for my purposes. If they make difficulties when I adopt them the gaso.line tracks may be an alernative.

Dirk Heyer
Uups.....I have not read that last sentence correctly!! Sry!
Greetz
Sirk

Christian Lehmann
No problem, doesn´t matter. Nevertheless an interesting link 🙂

Christian Lehmann
Hello Sherman specialists,
I need your support . As a plane builder I am not so familiar with the paints used in tanks. I started to build the engine and transmission. I am a little unsure about the colors to use. The instruction says: All surfaces insinde (hulls and turret), gear box housing, air filters, Fans: white, Cylinder block( V type in line engine): blackish iron? , valve covers: olive drab?, cardan shafts, air tubes: black; not stated are : Color of air cleaner assembly, pulleys of the fan belt drive
Can somebody confirm these colors?
Does somebody have a foto of the engine to add the ignition wires, as well as fotos of the inner turret ?

Christian Lehmann
Hello together,
has the turret of this version been casted? Are there ather parts of this version that have been casted?

Greetz
Christian

stefan natus
Ooooh no a tank 🙂

Christian Lehmann
Stefan, 30 years ago I buit nearly the whole 1/72 Esci tank kits. I also built Airfix´s sailing ships like Wasa, etc.. I am focused now on planes now (got no reference about tanks 🙂. This will only be an intermezzo. Also to try some of the painting technics of the tank builders. Maybe they can be adapted for plain paintin. Furthermore it is a scale for planes 🙂
Greetz
Christian

Christian Lehmann
Got one week of vacation now. Hope to get some progress on this project within the next week.

Christian Lehmann
Started painting the wheels today - a real slavery work

Christian Lehmann
The bogies are assembled and painted - ready for mounting now
next step: bending the duckbills ( the set contains of 140 pc.) to prepare the tracks for painting

Wilfried Bogaerts
Have fun during your vacation Lemmy, looking forward to see how the Sherman comes to life. Are you goin' to display it solo or in a diorama setting ?

Christian Lehmann
Hi Wilfried,
in a first step it will be solo withnthe crew. In a second step it is intended to use it on a small diorama with some additional figures.

Christian Lehmann
Progress is slow at the moment because of less motivation but during eastern the duckbills have been bent and mounted at the track; tracks have also been pre painted

Christian Lehmann
Today I also get the aluminum gun barrel that my father turned by using the original plastic part as sample

Holger Kranich
Your father? Great!

Christian Lehmann
This is no problem for him, he has more than 40 years experiance in turning, milling etc. He is retired now for a couple of years has a lot of time and likes challenges like this. I could also do this by myself but he owes the turning machine and has the time to do this

stefan natus
Your father did a great job on the barrel.

Christian Lehmann
I´ll tell this to him.

Holger Kranich
My regards to him, too please! I can turn, too, so i know how good his work is!

Philip De Keyser
Looking great Lemmy, I follow this one, looks very impressive, how was it the hairspray technic? greetz Phil

Wilfried Bogaerts
Nicely done barrel Lemmy, congrats to your dad !

Christian Lehmann
@ Phil: worked well, the results are best displayed on the gear box and the block of the gun. I did it on the floor too but the contrast between aluminum and whit is less o the foto does not show the result very well. I used it at Slave I too.
@ Wilfried: Thank´s.

Philip De Keyser
Hi Lemmy, next time you can try to give floor first a alclad layer, than sale it with a enamel clear cote, a hairspray cote, give it than a light or dark brown layer and then the wite, maybe is the contrast better? try this first on a pace of plastic, this is just a idea 🙂 greetz Phil

Christian Lehmann
I´ll try this

Holger Kranich
I think it sounds good!