BMC Sherman Tank Repaint (1 Viewer)

[MCKENNA77]

Hey dudes:

Just some start and finish photos of a recent repaint project I did.

Decal markings are for the Warwickshire Yeomanry, 9th Armored Brigade, 2nd New Zealand Division - 1942.

Which if Wikapedia is correct, served at the 2nd Battle of El Alamein.

Those exact Shermans were M4A1 while I believe this model is an M4A4. I'm not much of a rivet counter as you can tell.

Keep it silly

 

[jomartvr]

The tank looks good. Are you displaying it with KC, Britains or other soldiers? If so could you post a pic as I would like to get an idea of scale.
I am thinking of buy a BMC sherman and repainting as a French Foreign Legion vehicle in Indochina.
Thanks
Benjamin

 

[Mirof]

What can I say

It's very ... clean . So if this was the target no problem .
No tear and wear, no rust, jerrycan same color as the tank ..

Try once, one of the Verlinden technique
First aerograph the normal final shade, second pass aerograph, same shade plus a tip of white, applied in cloudy effect
Recover with a matt translucnt varnish
Wait unitl dried
Oil color deep brown with a hint of black diluted with turbentine, applied everywhere than washe directly with a sponge
Back to the first mix, add some white and dry brush, on again, once again , once again .
Apply decal
Use oil Burnt Umber diluted and with the tip of the brush let it flow down naturaly
Let it dry
Now some silver paint and a tiny point of black and do a very soft drybrushing with almost nothing on the brush
The result is amazing

 

[Thyer]

I really like how this turned out McKenna, very nice. It is a shame these tanks came out just before all the metal/plastic replicas started hitting the shelves a decade or so ago, I think they did anyhow....point being most of us would have hordes of these without those. I have 2 myself, always liked their tough appearance.

 

[binder001]

Nice repaint, but wrong tank. The Shermans at Alamein were much earlier iterations of that famous series. The BMC tank is based on the old K&C casting and represents an M4A3, 75mm, Wet Stowage medium tank. These didn't get overseas until the fall of 1944. Sorry, but Shermans are important to me.

Most of the Shermans in the Eighth Army were M4A1 (Sherman II), early production types, with a sprinkling of M4A2s (Sherman III). For a "decent" model, get the old Monogram "Screaming Mimi" M4A1. Because Monogram cut costs by using a lot of parts from their previous M3 "Lee" and "Grant" kits their M4A1 is an early production model. Leave off the rocket launcher from the kit. It's a 1975 kit so assembly isn't hard, and the kit can be found a lot cheaper than the nice 1/35th kits from Tasca or DML.

Gary B.