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| Subject: | [BLOG] M4A3E8 Thunderbolt VII Kit |  |
| Date: | Dec 16, 2007 |
| From: | Eric Scurlock | |
M4A3E8 Thunderbolt VII Kit
It’s high time I put away the Panthers I’ve been working on and start on something completely different. One of the first models I ever built was a DML M4A3E8 Korean War. That model was destroyed in a paint stripping accident a long time ago. I was very excited when DML came out with there Thunderbolt VII kit. I’ve had a copy in the stash for I guess a year and now is as good a time to build her as any.
I’ll be building her mostly out of the box but I won’t be doing an out of the box vehicle.
There are so many vehicles you can build from this kit I just don’t know how to behave. My initial goal with the kit was to build an M4A3E8 without any add-on armor, split hatch, single pin tracks, mantlet W/O dust cover clips, and muzzle break. That’s been a tough combination for me to come up with given my limited Sherman library. The best I’ve been able to come up with in the above combination is a vehicle with add-on hull armor as seen in the attached picture.
It is an interesting vehicle in that it has the add-on armor, an additional 30 cal MG mounted on the turret roof and a 50 cal coax MG but these features are very late war indeed; as such, I may hold off on it for a second go at this kit.
I may end up building an oval hatch vehicle simply because I at least have good pictures of them without the add-on armor. We’ll just cross that bridge when we get to it. |
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 | [BLOG] M4A3E8 Thunderbolt VII Kit - Eric Scurlock - Dec 16, 2007 |
| . . . [Chapter] What I will be Working With - Eric Scurlock - Dec 16, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] What I will be Working With - Frank Iannetta - Dec 18, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Forget the springs - James Wechsler - Dec 19, 2007 |
| . . . Re: [BLOG] M4A3E8 Thunderbolt VII Kit - Martin Dogger - Dec 17, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [BLOG] M4A3E8 Thunderbolt VII Kit - Eric Scurlock - Dec 17, 2007 |
| . . . [Chapter] The Basic Hull or… - Eric Scurlock - Dec 18, 2007 |
| . . . . . . After Repairs [IMG] - Eric Scurlock - Dec 19, 2007 |
| . . . [Chapter] Corrected Hull Sides - Eric Scurlock - Dec 23, 2007 |
| . . . [Chapter] Transmission Cover Mounting Plate - Eric Scurlock - Dec 25, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Transmission Cover Mounting Plate - Matthew Mifsud - Dec 25, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Transmission Cover Mounting Plate - Eric Scurlock - Dec 26, 2007 |
| . . . [Chapter] Transmission Cover Redux - Eric Scurlock - Dec 28, 2007 |
| . . . . . . View From The Front [IMG] - Eric Scurlock - Dec 28, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Transmission Cover Redux - Matt Weisberger - Dec 29, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Transmission Cover Redux - Eric Scurlock - Dec 30, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Transmission Cover Redux - David Damerell - Jan 4, 2008 |
| . . . [Chapter] Suspension - Eric Scurlock - Jan 1, 2008 |
| . . . [Chapter] Engine Cover - Eric Scurlock - Jan 6, 2008 |
| . . . [Chapter] Turret Rear - Eric Scurlock - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Turret Rear - Michael Bedard - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Turret Rear [IMG] - Thorsten Herbes - Jan 9, 2008 |
| . . . [Chapter] Pistol Port Area of Turret - Eric Scurlock - Jan 14, 2008 |
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