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Zen · Post by **Zen** » June 13th, 2016, 11:24 am

The Hurricane looks great!

Clashcityrocker · Post by **Clashcityrocker** » June 18th, 2016, 8:07 am

Cheers all. Got the Sherman to a place where I'm calling it done. Any more and I think it'll look too weathered. I think the wash may be a bit heavy, but it's done now

And the bit I was most pleased with. Getting the gun barrel drilled out, nice and centred

A coat of grey primer on the landing craft

Nigel

hayabusa · Post by **hayabusa** » June 18th, 2016, 9:25 am

Nigel,

Nice work !
Sherman will be on board LCM ?

PGAS · Post by **PGAS** » June 18th, 2016, 10:10 pm

Good looking Sherman. I have to agree, it would look good on the LCM!

Ratch · Post by **Ratch** » June 19th, 2016, 9:23 am

Coming together well Nigel

Of course, a Sherman is too heavy for an LCMIII, but that's never bothered Airfix

mjatx · Post by **mjatx** » June 20th, 2016, 2:24 pm

I like the Sherman. You did a great job with those tracks, which I've always had trouble getting on without completely damaging everything in the way.

Ratch wrote:Coming together well Nigel Of course, a Sherman is too heavy for an LCMIII, but that's never bothered Airfix

I thought the issue was that the LCM could only carry one Sherman, and basically no additional troops. Essentially, it was just impractical to use the LCM to carry a Sherman, not that it couldn't carry one.

I found a training video loading a Sherman onto a LCM.

Zen · Post by **Zen** » June 21st, 2016, 1:41 am

The Sherman looks great, very nice work!

Zen

ShaunW · Post by **ShaunW** » June 21st, 2016, 4:28 pm

Excellent work with the Sherman Nigel and it will look good in the landing craft.

nashorn · Post by **nashorn** » June 22nd, 2016, 11:15 am

Nice one Nigel.

Clashcityrocker · Post by **Clashcityrocker** » June 25th, 2016, 6:40 am

Thanks guys. The LCM is being built for the 'In the Navy - Royal Navy Ships', group build, but I'll load it with the Sherman when it goes into the cabinet

Started this from the Operation Overlord gift set

It's fairly basic, was made to click together and needed a lot of seam scraping and sanding. I think I read somewhere that in previous releases the guns would fire shells by means of a spring. You still get 12 shells, but the barrels aren't hollow anymore

I think this is more of a toy than a replica of any D-Day gun position. It's all good fun though

Nigel

ShaunW · Post by **ShaunW** » June 27th, 2016, 5:44 pm

Oh man, this takes me back Nigel as I had this emplacement as part of an Airfix D-Day set in the '70's and I recall that the guns did indeed "fire"

I don't see why it shouldn't paint up into a reasonable coastal defence fort, maybe not accurate but a fair bit of fun!

Zen · Post by **Zen** » June 27th, 2016, 10:05 pm

That gun emplacement is just begging to have some soldiers attacking it...

Clashcityrocker · Post by **Clashcityrocker** » June 30th, 2016, 4:33 am

The LCM progresses

Nigel

59North · Post by **59North** » June 30th, 2016, 4:45 am

The LCM progressed nicely. Looks sweet!

ShaunW · Post by **ShaunW** » July 1st, 2016, 5:25 pm

Great progress with the LCM indeed Nigel, she's looking peachy!

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