Sherman Firefly Turrets...........

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Re: Sherman Firefly Turrets...........

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You need a super Sherman dmd and mf ideally. I have a spare of both due to changing to Pershing sounds...

I would use a Sherman turret ring, metal turret bracing and you should be able to fit recoil and elevation, at a squeeze.

There isn’t much elevation so I probably won’t bother in my T23 from Nick.
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Re: Sherman Firefly Turrets...........

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Hi Nick,

Excellent. If you're able to part with the Super Sherman DMD and MF units, I can give them a good home. Can you PM ?

Cheers,

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Do yourself a favour and remove that address and PM it to Adam.

Much safer :thumbup:
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This is my build and you don't have to purchase a turret. It's not that difficult and my conversion is covered step by step in the threads.
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Yeah, the M4's and M4 composites/hybrids would mostly have had radial engines.
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Tiger6 wrote:You can use pretty much any combination of MF and DMD together, outside of the original T-01 and the unit in the Leopard 2 (and probably the new Type 10?)

The MF-03 will give you Ford V8 sounds - you might want to look around for the MF-07 from the M51 instead, as I think that one has the correct radial engine noises.
The GAA Ford V8 was in use from the M4A3 on. The israeli M51 didn't use the radial engine.
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Cummins diesel is a great lump, it’s in my friends M51 Sherman. I put KV mf and dmd in my M52 model, sounds ok but a custom sound pack would be better.
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Ad Lav wrote:Cummins diesel is a great lump, it’s in my friends M51 Sherman. I put KV mf and dmd in my M52 model, sounds ok but a custom sound pack would be better.
So Adam, when you going n start producing them then :think:
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I am due to record his engine this summer... ;)
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Ad Lav wrote:I am due to record his engine this summer... ;)
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