that's why I also like the Sherman, there's so many variants and or modifications that were done to them making the builds both fun and challenging at the same time. I tried to do as many of the changes that were possible ( or at least what I knew
) like changing the bogies to the early style and using the 5 spoke wheels, I also cut down the rear of the turret as much as I dared as not to impede the barrel recoil movement, this was done to resemble the low bustle type, I did not do this modification in the earlier pictures but on the completed model it is noticable, I've most probably missed a few things to make it 100% accurate but as with all of my models I use some artistic license and as long as it has the overall look that I was going for it makes me happy 
Cheers,Lee.
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