Lert builds Oddball's Sherman

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Lert
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c.rainford73 wrote:Absolutely beautiful workImageyou're weathering skills are exceptional
Thank you! Coming from you, I'll take that as great praise.
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Very minor update, but a big milestone. Up until now, my man of Sher could've been any post-war M4A3E4, but now it's made the first step towards definitely being Oddball's:

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Great work , how are you planning on tackling the speaker?
Don't get your panties in a bunch , we still got hand weapons and the fifty!
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Aussie wrote:Great work , how are you planning on tackling the speaker?
Actually haven't decided yet. Might get some sheet metal and cut and bend it into shape or scrap and salvage a store bought funnel, don't know yet.
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Son of a gun-ner wrote:Could this help?

Flat Cone Template Calculator
http://craig-russell.co.uk/demos/cone_calculator/
It might, thanks!
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The rear of the engine deck of Oddball's Sherman:

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The main part to do is the three boxes on the rear deck. To this end I cut some HL standard boxes to size and used plasticard layered up to scratchbuild the lowest profile box. Some .5mm wire bent to shape for the handles:

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Painted and washed applied:

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And fitted:

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So, some more work done ...

As you can see in this screenshot from the WoT mod, there are two silver-y milk cans of a sort:

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I'd been wondering how I was gonna do those, until I realized that the oil can that comes with the HL man of Sher seems to be close enough in size to work with, and I had two of them. So I cut and sanded them down:

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Glued on a short piece of plastic pipe:

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Liberally applied some fine milliput:

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Next day cleaned them up a bit and painted them:

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Purposely didn't clean them up that well as I wanted my milk cans to look beat up instead of factory fresh. Anyways, while that dried I painted six backpacks I had lying around and weathered them with washes, then took the milk cans and carefully superglued handles to them made from thin wire, and strips to mimic the handles on the lids:

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I cut up and painted some more of that plastic pipe to mimic the pipe Oddball says they'd use to fool the Germans in thinking he had maybe a 90mm, applied an old towing cable I had lying around and gleud a German jerrycan to the front fender, like in the WoT mod:

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Still much to do, but at least the easy parts of the stowage are done. Next up, a lot of scratchbuilding, from a blue watering can to a gold lantern with red glass to a speaker, what appears to be a wicker basket and several duffel bags. Gotta figure out how to build each and every one of those. Maybe some dollhouse specialist webstore has some items I can cannibalize ...
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Veeeeery nice. :thumbup:
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Looks great so far , looking forward to more pics.
Don't forget the frying pan hanging off the ass end as well.
Don't get your panties in a bunch , we still got hand weapons and the fifty!
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Re: Lert builds Oddball's Sherman

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Looks great so far , looking forward to more pics.
Don't forget the frying pan hanging off the ass end as well.
Don't get your panties in a bunch , we still got hand weapons and the fifty!
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