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| Subject: | SQ:Composite Hull Sherman |  |
| Date: | Jun 28, 2007 |
| From: | Mihaly Tamas Kucskar | |
This is my competitive for the Shelf Queen contest. It’s a real wreck shelf queen.
10 years ago I built the Italeri No 253 M4 A2/3 Sherman kit. It was one of my first model kits. The result becomes very bad. So I banished it into a box.
A few years ago one of my friends eliminated his Italeri No 225 M4 A1 Sherman which was in the same poor condition like my Sherman. I decided that I will build a composite hull Sherman using the parts of those two kits.
Last summer I started the conversion with cutting down the first part of the A1 Sherman hull, and the back part of the A3 Sherman. I cut out the engine deck of the A3 hull, which will be replaced with a correct A1 engine deck. Of course I had to remove everything: paint, glue, parts from the surfaces. The rear engine deck is from Dragon. The last step was when I assembled the hull parts with the chassis. Since then I haven’t worked on the model.
I will use a lot of spare parts from my spare part box. Like the turret of the Italeri No 6389 U.S. Marines M4 Sherman, Academy bogies and wheels, Dragon separate track links…
Mihaly Tamas Kucskar
Hungary |
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