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Reply #15 on: February 11, 2020, 09:43:29 AM
Ha! Awesome.

Actually, he's busy painting B&B figures at the moment.

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Reply #16 on: February 11, 2020, 09:44:58 AM
Looks like a Kelly's Heroes gang, which I suppose is the point. Nice figs!

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Reply #17 on: February 11, 2020, 09:51:01 AM

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Reply #18 on: February 11, 2020, 09:57:05 AM
Excellent!

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Reply #19 on: February 11, 2020, 03:32:18 PM
Man, they’re pretty awesome - I know there’s an oddball Sherman but didn’t know about these guys



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Reply #20 on: February 11, 2020, 03:56:34 PM
Cool! Now I have the urge to watch The Dirty Dozen again.  8)

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Reply #21 on: February 11, 2020, 04:01:06 PM
Cool! Now I have the urge to watch The Dirty Dozen again.  8)

Or Kelly's Heroes even.

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Reply #22 on: February 11, 2020, 04:14:12 PM
Or Kelly's Heroes even.

Looks like a Kelly's Heroes gang, which I suppose is the point. Nice figs!

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Reply #23 on: February 11, 2020, 07:12:41 PM
I may finally break down and buy some minis  :bigthumb:


... I know there’s an oddball Sherman...

Please share with the rest of the class  :o

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Reply #24 on: February 12, 2020, 06:51:45 AM
M4A3E8?

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Reply #25 on: February 12, 2020, 07:00:29 AM

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Reply #26 on: February 12, 2020, 07:16:07 AM
Not an M4A3E8 then, and there seems to be something not quite right about the front end of that Tiger 1E.

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Reply #27 on: February 12, 2020, 07:21:52 AM
The Kelly's Heroes Tiger was built on a T-34 chasis. So that's why it looks odd.

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Reply #28 on: February 12, 2020, 07:24:02 AM
Not an M4A3E8 then, and there seems to be something not quite right about the front end of that Tiger 1E.

Rumor has it that the tank in Kelly's Heroes was an M4A3E4 which was rebuilt and upgraded after the war for the export market, in this case probably Yugoslavia, which is also where the movie was filmed. In the movie Oddball says something about his crew putting long lengths of pipe over their gun barrels to fool the Germans into thinking they have 76mm guns.

The Tiger I in the movie was actually a T-43-85 with a *lot* of cosmetic enhancements. That's why the turret is too far forward. This type of conversion was done for a number of WW2 movies.

EDIT: ninja'd by Mirth on the Tiger...

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Reply #29 on: February 12, 2020, 07:29:15 AM
Oh yes, I know about that, but I was actually referring to the model kit in Brant's thread. Also, you will notice in the film that the Sherman's used in the film have much longer gun tubes than the 75mm that was the normal armament, but lacks the muzzle brake of the 76.2mm gun that the M4A3E8 was armed with.

Is this rivet counting or what!

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