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| Subject: | Re: Rear hull overhang on M4a4 |  |
| Date: | Jan 17, 2003 |
| From: | Kurt Laughlin | |
> Rutger and I have started Dragon's retooled Vc Firefly, and I have done
> the necessary surgery on the lower hull.
> The problem is, now that the lower hull is shorter, the kit's louvre
> grill doesn't fit in the rear hull overhang anymore. Was there really
> such a grill on the real thing, or was it a mesh cover, or something
> completely different? We have shots of this area for other marks of the
> Sherman, but not for M4A4's
The rear plate continued up into the upper hull and into the sponsons.
There was a screened opening at the top center where the exhausts came out.
Photo 28 in the Modeler's Guide to the Sherman shows this. There is a
drawing from the M4A4 manual somewhere on the web that is good as well. The
grill in the kit is a retracted deflector, similar to that on Ford M4A3s.
KL |
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