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Showing posts with label American Tank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Tank. Show all posts
Monday, 4 May 2026

Note to Self: 28mm Warlord Games US M3 Lee Assembly Instructions

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I am still wading through the Warlord Games AFV "sprue sale" bargains I picked up. I have to confess, despite my initial forebodin...
Sunday, 15 May 2022

1/72 Scale Airfix Sheridan - Vietnam Era

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I have been quiet on the blog posting front but I have been pottering along quietly in the background, with of all things the "Vietnam ...
Tuesday, 25 June 2019

1/72 ArmourFast M18 Hellcat US Tank Destroyer WWII

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This made me a happy man, a US 20mm WWII M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer (see below, a long lost prize is found): The M10 Wolverine and M36 ...
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Thursday, 3 November 2016

Coming soon ... Airfix Shermans v Hasagawa Tiger (and PSC Panzer IV)

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Airfix Battles Scenario Three: Shermans v Tiger (and a Panzer IV). The long standing heros of my modelling youth, I give you the venerable ...
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Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Constructed at last, the "Last American" Sherman (Manic Laughter)

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The skirts and spare track assemblies have finally been added (see below): Paint it black again and this is what you get, ta da! (see b...
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Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Is this really still the "Last American" Sherman build still a WIP?

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I can literally "smell" the finish line (of the 'construction phase' anyway) but the danger is my stamina may fail me. The...
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Sunday, 8 September 2013

Paint It Black (undercoating the "Last American" Sherman)

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The interior engine detail of the Esci/Italeri Sherman implied interior painting (ho hum) which in turn implied first of all a black (Tamiya...
Friday, 6 September 2013

Can you see what it is yet? It's my last [American] Sherman: (Part III)

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And it came to pass that I put the turret onto the hull (see below): And then I put the hull cover onto the chassis (see below) No...
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Thursday, 5 September 2013

Making 'that' last American 1/72 scale Sherman for my US Tank Battalion (Cont)

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Edging ever closer to completing that last American Sherman (see below) ... Bit by bit, one sprue down, with the tracks and turret stil...
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Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Making 'that' last American 1/72 scale Sherman for my US Tank Battalion

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Here I am trying to make that "last American Sherman" for my US Armoured Battalion (Tank Division) and I hit the " how many ...
Monday, 2 September 2013

20mm Plastic Soldier Company (PSC) US Sherman 76mm

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Again the PSC "quick builds" comes the rescue of my flagging WWII Command Decision US Tank Battalion from the US Armoured Division...
Saturday, 31 August 2013

Plastic Soldier Company (PSC) 20mm M5A1 Stuarts and Stuart Reece

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I really like the Plastic Soldier Company (PSC) 1/72 or 20mm kits. They balance a very high level of detail in an easy assembly model. IMHO ...
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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

The Horror, The Horror ... Stop Press "Law of Gravity stiill holds true

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I never thought I was very good at the practical side of physics. It turns out that my coordination coming down a ladder is also getting a b...
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Sunday, 5 September 2010

More Shermans (ArmourFast and Tank Magazine)

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Coming out of the box two at a time from the ArmourFast range, the Sherman M4A2 version, destined to be painted up in 8th Army desert camouf...
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010

The Long American: M40 155mm Artillery Piece

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When you see one you don't have, don't you get that "must have" craving? I never had the M40 Matchbox (now released by Rev...
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Saturday, 14 August 2010

The Joy of Airfix (2): Sherman power the "Calliope"

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Joining up a bit of the 'old' Airfix with a bit of the 'new' (as in the tubes on top) product line. Raw plastic shown below:...
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Thursday, 12 August 2010

Trumpets out for Trumpeter: The M26 Pershing

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Finally the Western Allies delivered a decent heavy tank, albeit too late for the Second World War, but incorporating lessons learned (the h...
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Thursday, 10 September 2009

The British and American Sherman Response

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Just to prove there is more to my AFV collection than late war German heavy panzers. As they came. Three decoys (the Airfix 1/72 Sherman)...
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