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| Subject: | DML Sherman M4A1(76)W issues |  |
| Date: | Sep 20, 2006 |
| From: | Herve Charbonneau | |
Kevin,
This kit is one of the most accurate Sherman kit currently available, but it does have a few issues:
- Incorrect style front fenders (the old Italeri kit has the correct ones).
- Superfluous filler caps on either side of the air intake (just behind the turret), which must be removed.
- One-sided, solid idler wheels.
- Incorrect style drive sprockets (large-hatch M4A1's had either the solid type or the later "fancy" type with grooved notches).
- Kit still lacks a proper US style antenna mount.
As for specific info regarding Polish vehicles, someone else will have to help you with that. All I know is that the kit was designed to build into a M4A1(76)W of the initial batch deployed in time for Operation Cobra. As such, it comes with the earlier VVSS suspension with straight (horizontal) return roller arm and a main gun barrel without thread protector. I don't know if Polish vehicles were from the same batch, or if they were from a later batch with M1A1C gun w/thread protector and the revised VVSS suspension with upswept return roller arms.
Cheers!
Charby |
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