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This is going to be my new year build, another Sherman as part of my long term Sword beach project. This one will be ‘Warspite’ the command Sherman of ‘W’ troop of the 5 battery, Royal Marines armoured support group. I’ve already had a discussion on this tank on the Sherman super thread with some helpful input from @Kingsman. A mixture of features but appears to be an early/mid ‘43 build A4. I’m going to be using T54E2 tracks from bronco (god help me!) as that’s what I think I can see fitted on it, although Peter thinks they are T62’s. The spare tracks on the glacis are definitely T54E2’s though. Also interestingly it appears to only have the rear wading duct fitted and not on a quick release mechanism but cables running to the hull, I’m presuming attached to the lifting eyes. My thoughts are that as the RMASG tanks were intended to fire on the run in to the beach, they needed to have them able to traverse. The forward duct would have got in the way, similar to the firefly’s, and the quick release mechanism was mounted on the turret so wouldn’t have allowed the turret to turn if it had been fitted. It also appears as if the pioneer tools are missing. I will be using Asuka’s Sherman V kit for this along with some extras, some of which are shown below. If anyone has any other input or spots any other interesting details please should, or just follow along for the ride. Will be starting the actual build in the New Year. Greg
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Hey Guys, Anyone know of M4A4's being used in Europe by the USA? I know they were used as Fireflys by the Brits and the Chinese used them late in the war and I believe we used them in SE Asia. I am finalizing a CyberHobby (Dragon) M4A4 Sherman Orange box. They included a late European Theater American tank crew, but I don't think this fits. For those of you familiar with the Orange box series, they are mixed and matched Dragon kits. The instructions are challenging (just pay attention to reference photos and look ahead through the instructions to see if something needs to be placed that is not mentioned in a step). There are as many extra pieces from this kit for a Firefly as there are for the kit itself (almost). As for the figures, I will most likely just keep them for future builds, but was wondering if anyone knew of American M4A4's in Europe. Cheers (for the Brits Mates)!!
