I finished up the Stuarts and moved onto the Shermans next, as this would give me the choice to field either US mixed light or heavy tank companies. I added the decals and attached the stowage. I had a number of sand bag sets, so spread these out on various tanks, along with the other stowage. I then finished up the stowage.
The kits are all Battlefront plastics. I have a mix of Sherman types, with plenty of extra turrets to field them with either 75s or 76s. The mix allows me to field Shermans through the end of the war, including Jumbos to lead the way! The models are all Battlefront plastics. Each set allows you to build the tanks as 75s, 76s or 105s. I did a little of each, to field a company. In addition, I had an old resin dozer Sherman and armored recovery vehicle. These got thrown into the batch.
These followed the same steps as the early lend lease project vehicles. I sprayed the models with Krylon dark olive camo paint, hit the bottoms with Vallejo dark mud pumice, black washed the tank, drybrushed up the green and brown, painted details, added the decals, added and detailed stowage, drybrushed a little extra mud on the upper surfaces, dull coated the models and finished with a Iraqi Sand drybrush. It is a pretty quick way to get through armor and gives a very dirty effect.
Iconic Shermans done, time for some TDs….
- Manteuffel
Jumbos DO lead the way!