Duckbill tracks on Shermans and Fireflies

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Re: Duckbill tracks on Shermans and Fireflies

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Son of a gun-ner wrote:
Biasphere1 wrote:The VC Fireflies were the longer body M4 , don't forget that.
The M4A4 also had an extended chassis, 63 and 3/8 inches* between bogie centres (1.61 meters) 100mm is close enough in 1/16th scale.
* I measured this myself :D
Yep! 100mm is what I used.

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A bit late to reply, but here are some parked up Shermans with duckbills - I presume May 1945.

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Dickbills were non Sherman specific and were used by British and American forces, as earlier posted they were closely associated with winter or boggy conditions there for more terrain dependant than tank dependent
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Exhibitedbrute wrote:Dickbills were non Sherman specific and were used by British and American forces
Yes - and duckbills too...



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Estnische wrote:
Exhibitedbrute wrote:Dickbills were non Sherman specific and were used by British and American forces
Yes - and duckbills too...



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jhamm wrote:You be in error...
"Ostketten" and "Winterketten" are one and the same thing.
Ostketten and Winterketten are two separate track types winterketten being designed in 1942 for the winter of the Eastern front, it was for all intents and purposes just the standard track with very long extensions added to the casting, the crews hated it because the extensions would break off very easily and frankly it looks pretty ridiculous most of the time too a bit like the Sherman with the extremely long duckbill prototype tracks

Ostketten is from 1944 and looks like mini late type Tiger tracks or mid type Panther tracks, they were far sturdier and a much better design overall and no doubt did not help with the whole Panzer IV/Tiger mis-identification
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winterketten

Ostketten
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HL JAGDPANTHER,HL TIGER 1,HL PzIII MUNITIONSCHLEPPER, HL KT OCTOPUS,HL PANTHER ZU-FUSS,HL STuG III,HL T34/85 BEDSPRING,
HL PZIV MALTA,MATORRO JAGDTIGER,HL F05 TIGER,TAMIYA KT,HL PANTHERDOZER,HL EARLY PANTHER G,TAIGEN/RAMINATOR T34/76,
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jhamm wrote:You be in error...
"Ostketten" and "Winterketten" are one and the same thing.
Then why did I spend so much real money to buy both in 1:1 hahaha! ;-)
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