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| Subject: | Why it's awful |  |
| Date: | Aug 5, 2001 |
| From: | M. Gallagher | |
Scott,
I think this is probably the J they had painted in the silly DAK scheme. That was an obviously incorrect paint job while this new restoration is a messy half true / half false fabrication. If they had to "restore" the tank, why didn't they just add some fabricated turret schurzen and a coat of paint and leave it at that? That way it would have been more presentable, more accurate and would not have compromised any of the original components which, once altered, cannot be replaced.
Aside from the zimmerit, The turret schurzen are bogus, with the wrong proportions -- probably because no one took accurate measurements of the originals and because this tank was missing the rear turret box. The Thoma screens are complete fabrications, with tubes added to the earlier style brackets instead of the unique type used with the tubes. A great wasted effort. The fenders have been altered with fictional brackets. The lights (there should only be one) are nothing like the originals.
The problem I see is that this sort of restoration is misleading and obliterates authentic information in order to create a nice picture for an uninformed audience.
I hope they did not damage the original fenders and schurzen fitting points in order to pull off this fantasy. I'm certain that they have made it very difficult to differentiate between the original zimmerit and the new stuff. A restoration like this will just add to the confusion down the road.
Sorry to sound so pessimistic, but this is a very bad trend -- well intentioned, I'm sure but with lousy results. I hope Saumur is not planning to do more of this sort of thing in the future.
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