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This is the second section of the poll, too many subjects to fit all in one poll

See Part 2a for further choice, this is a mulitple option poll.

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Ratch · Posted: Sat 28 Jun 2008 10:56 am Post subject:

StuG III, PzKpfw IV and/or Sherman (Crab) for me

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Spudgun · Posted: Sat 28 Jun 2008 11:17 am Post subject:

Sherman's all the way.
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Owen · Posted: Sat 28 Jun 2008 11:26 am Post subject:

I wouldn't mind doing a Sherman - it's the one Airfix kit I haven't done yet.
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Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Sat 28 Jun 2008 18:00 pm Post subject:

Believe it or not.....I voted for the Panzer IV and Sherman too!

I will either do another OSL PzIV Ausf D, to see if forewarned really is forearmed when dealing with the current tracks.....Also saving me the expense of a 1/76 resin kit

Or, if it has to be a Sherman, then I would go for one or more US or Nationalist Chinese M4s operating in the Far-East.....BTW did the USMC use M4s at all?

All the best

airfixteen · Posted: Sat 28 Jun 2008 19:09 pm Post subject:

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Sat 28 Jun 2008 21:16 pm Post subject:

No mention of USMC M4s in there.....I used that page to check my answer to your question about Shermans in Normandy BTW.

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EDIT - Apparently the USMC used the M4A2 & M4A3 as mentioned.....They also used one company of M4A1s (A Co/1st Tank, at Cape Gloucester and northern New Guinea), but absolutely no M4s!

Hawk · Posted: Mon 30 Jun 2008 14:25 pm Post subject:

Sherman for me, I might convert the Airfix one to an early M3 bogied version with the Lee/Grant suspension
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Brews · Posted: Mon 30 Jun 2008 14:47 pm Post subject:

You shouldn't need the M3 suspension to do that, just reposition the given return roller.
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Hawk · Posted: Tue 01 Jul 2008 09:15 am Post subject:

Oh Ok, thatsaves me having to cannabilise a Lee/Grant kit!
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Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Tue 01 Jul 2008 12:37 pm Post subject:

This might help:

BOGEYS & WHEELS

You could modify the Airfix M4 bogeys, but they would not be strictly accurate. One way to do this conversion at no real loss to yourself is to fit the Sherman with the bogeys from a MB/Revell 1/76 M7 Priest. You can then fit the Priest with the Sherman bogeys giving you a M7B1.

HTH & All the best

Ratch · Posted: Tue 01 Jul 2008 15:49 pm Post subject:

Guys, we have (what seems like) hundreds of threads on the Sherman. Let's not turn this into another Off Topic

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Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Tue 01 Jul 2008 16:38 pm Post subject:

Sorry, we were getting a bit ahead of ourselves there!

All the best

Hawk · Posted: Thu 03 Jul 2008 09:14 am Post subject:

I will do that Sarge M7B1 here I come!
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