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SHERMAN IC FIREFLY

10th Armoured Regiment, The Fort Garry Horse

2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade

Netherlands, February, 1945

MODEL STATS:

Kit Maker: Tamiya

Scale: 1/35

Tank Manufacturer: Baldwin Locomotive Works

 

I built this IC Firely a few years back when there was no 1/35 Scale Firely IC's available in kit form. Since then Dragon has released a IC firely that  is based on the Sherman M4 Chassis. This particular kit is the Tamiya M4 Sherman modified to model the the British 17 pounder anti Tank Gun which was mounted on the Firefly .I used a metal barrel for the main gun and kit parts for the Bow and Co-AX MG's. The stowage bins are from Ultracast and Aber. I used the now out of production Dragon DS Sherman tracks type T54E1 and the kit tracks for the add-on armour on the turret and glacis. The canvas cover on the rear of the tank is made from epoxy sculpt. The tank commander is from Ultracast. I painted the tank using acrylics. The colour of the tank is my take on SCC15, the British version of U.S. Olive Drab.

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