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| Subject: | Re: M4A3 Sherman/Pershing cupola |  |
| Date: | Aug 7, 2003 |
| From: | Christophe Jacquemont | |
The Calibre 35 offering is Tamiya's M26 cupola and M26 headlight lenses recast in clear resin right?
Cheers,
Christophe
mike foncannon a écrit :
> Alan,
> The cupola was the same for the Sherman and the Pershing. The M24 Chaffee's cupola looks similar but is a smaller diameter.
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> I just purchased the Calibre35 M26 cupola set #35011.
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> It contains the cupola as well as appropriate lenses for the Pershing headlights, tail lights and the searchlight. Again, these were common to the Sherman.
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> It comes with precut masks for the periscopes and lenses and a coherent and detailed illustrated instruction sheet that beats most resin kits I have seen.
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> The cupola itself is interchangeable with the Tamiya M4A3 cupola. It is such a good match, that I suspect they may share some DNA.
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> Given the price of five MV lenses in my neck of the woods, the set was a good deal at around $10 USD.
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> hth,
> mike |
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