1944 M4A3 105mm

palepainter · Post by **palepainter** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 3:37 pm

ALPHA wrote:Hey there Painless... how is it everyone says that brass antenna plug is so easy to pull out ? ...Man you should have seen the KV's ... it not only was difficult... but it was longer than the norm.... What I had to do was cut what was underneath the hull then pull it out

just a little spooky when the panel started to flex

ALPHA

A little heat from a lighter and my KV antenna base pulled right up.

PainlessWolf · Post by **PainlessWolf** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 3:51 am

3rd Day: Nothing in the post today but I did luck out and find and order the Tamiya bagged MG for the hull. I had been searching for an alternative to the HL 'black stick' this time around. I wanted to use the nice, bright LED that came on the tank so the deluxe Bug and Tiger 1 MGs were out. The Tamiya unit is in parts so will work well with enough extra detail to make me very happy with the appearance of the bow MG. On to pictures:

cannedheat · Post by **cannedheat** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:53 am

I cheated and just got out the old wet and dry smoothed every thing needed then put the metal grill over top ....wot wot [my delivery is on its way its in the van just waiting for the man ]

PainlessWolf · Post by **PainlessWolf** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:34 pm

Good Morning, CH,
That sounds like a good solution. You did such a good job, I didn't notice it. I'm going to have to cut the grill free from part of the top half of the hull attachment posts under there. Finicky work but it will give me a support for the metal ones to rest on. I will still put the center bar support back in but it can be scale sized now. Cool beans on your delivery making it in soon! ;o)
warm regards,
Painless

PainlessWolf · Post by **PainlessWolf** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 3:55 am

4th Day: Nothing in the post again but still plenty to do. Tonight I pulled the turret rotator box temporarily and shaved off one of it's three mounting posts. The one _right_ over the cut I was making for the top of the engine bay grills. Well, two screws and a piece of double stick or some hotglue will keep it in place when the time to reassemble comes. On with the pictures:

cannedheat · Post by **cannedheat** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:45 am

look what came ,ones away for xmas that's the deal wither indoors the great one who must be obeyed .......wot wot

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PainlessWolf · Post by **PainlessWolf** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 1:17 pm

Good Morning,
Those are the kinds of presents to warm up the Holidays! Now that they have arrived, enjoy! the one and anticipate the other until Christmas morning. ;o)
warm regards,
Painless

cannedheat · Post by **cannedheat** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 2:36 pm

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will try old chap ,have given my spare top a lick of dulux and done bit of welding same with the turret but the more I mess the more I want to change what I have started not good .......

PainlessWolf · Post by **PainlessWolf** » Fri Dec 06, 2013 4:15 am

5th Day: Nothing delivered again. *chuckles* I wanted a little break so I took one of the spare HL .50 cals I have that didn't look too bad and detailed it for my Pershing. The .50 on that tank looked like it had been through a fire it was so deformed. I had tried to fix it up a little earlier this year by moving the ammo box to the right position but it was still bugging me. This new .50 cal entailed drilling out the muzzle and all of the barrel jacket casing holes and the holes in the band securing the forward grip. I painted the handles, drilled the sight and painted the body Olive Drab. As a final touch I added the firing button in silver. It's nicely painted and looks a lot better on the Pershing than the original one but is no great shakes since it is still an early HL .50 cal. The best thing HL ever did was start adding parts on sprues and keeping them away from the Glue Monkey. I'm saving the two parter .50 that came with this Sherman for my Walker Bulldog since it is also cursed with one of the early .50 cals. That's a job for another day. Work on the Sherman tonight entailed trimming out the top cut. Only the sides and the supports left now. Pictures: