"Industrial Scale Tank Production" Topic
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Bunkermeister  | 08 Aug 2023 11:42 a.m. PST |
link Mass production of the Sherman tank. Click the link for more photos and leave a comment on the blog. Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog |
 Mserafin | 09 Aug 2023 10:14 a.m. PST |
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| Bunkermeister | 09 Aug 2023 1:17 p.m. PST |
Thank you Mserafin. Bunkermeister |
| Captain Pete | 10 Aug 2023 6:02 a.m. PST |
That is a lot of Shermans, Mike! I am looking forward to seeing them when they are finished but more WIP pictures will be great to see as well. |
| Mark 1 | 21 Aug 2023 9:26 a.m. PST |
Great blog post and pics (so far). Really enjoyed going through it. As Pete says, it will be fun seeing more pics as you progress. That is a lot of Shermans, Mike! OK Pete, was that actually sincere, or said with a wry bit of toungue-in-cheek? Not suggested as any sort of criticism, mind you. Building models does take work, and that's an impressive volume of buildable models to do at once. But the definition of "mass production" may seem rather commonplace to those of us who work at smaller scales. I just finished a batch of 17 M4A1 mid-war Shermans for my ETO forces, with 5 M4A3E2 Jumbos (3 x 75mm, 2 x 76mm), 5 M4A3 76mm's, and 5 M4A3E8 "Easy 8s" to support them. A rather run-of-the-mill volume of work for 6mm guys… ;-) -Mark
(aka: Mk 1) |
| Captain Pete | 22 Aug 2023 7:40 a.m. PST |
Good to see you back, Mark! I really want to see Mike's Shermans as they progress. Here are a couple of pictures of my Shermans taken a few years ago. I now have a company plus of M4A1s and M4A3 types. With the release of the M4 by GHQ I will be adding some of those in as well. In the first, there are 30 Shermans, mostly M4A3 types, but the back row are the first 5 M4A1s that I had completed. I think I did the M4A1s before GHQ started doing the mid-late war M4A1s so these are sort of a mix of the earlier hulls with 3 piece tranmission housings and the later turrets with the wide mantlet.
In the 2nd picture, I have 6 completed M4A1 76mm Shermans along with some M4A3 types in the front. The lower one in the 2nd row is an M4A3 early type. On most of my GHQ M4A3 75mm, I use the British turrets and cut off the rear bustle as I wanted the split hatch and not the commanders cupola.
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 4th Cuirassier | 16 Nov 2023 1:54 p.m. PST |
Those are some really nice Shermans! |
 deadhead | 21 Nov 2023 2:11 a.m. PST |
Both scales of Shermans are terrific sights. I can just imagine them all as the French 2eme DB, with such colourful markings, turret numbers, names, tricolours (they would be small mind you). Bunkermeister doe smake the point that this is massive production rather than "just" collection, but Capt Pete's required work to get the right turret look too. One day I will get back to this, but right now that blooming Belgian HA battery in 1;1 ratio (not scale!) |
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wonders: Can Fernando do 1/285th?
