Sherman rear plate
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Dale jordan
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Sherman rear plate
Mike . Here is another mod that I did which makes the Sherman more scale like and that is to file the rear plate top edge parrell to the engine deck a lot of elbow grease but worth it.
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Dale jordan
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Fabrice Le Roux
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Hi Dale,
Very tidy work all round.
Curiously, as I need the whole upper hull to lift off to access my M32's innards, I put the upper and lower hulls together deliberatly as separate assemblies. When complete and dry fitted together there was a 2mm gap between the inside of the rear plate and the ends of the lower hull sides (where the little steel angle brackets are). Initally an irritation, this has turned out to be advantageous, as it allowed installation of a full width plate to support John Grima's very nice, but quite fragile, tin-plate, exhaust louvres. I also "roofed over" the gap between the hull sides above the exhausts to prevent exhaust "smoke" from re-entering the engine bay and wafting out of the deck grilles. Eventually I plan on installing a firewall as part of the interior detailing (the M32 has an open topped fake turret) which will stiffen up the pannier floor plates.
I also sealed up the engine access door as part of attempts to waterproof the model up to the level of the pannier floor. All electronics are mounted above this level. The M32 has a large rectangular winching hole cut through the glacis at this height anyway...so deep fording will be left to the DDs.
Nice work.
cheers, Fabrice
Very tidy work all round.
Curiously, as I need the whole upper hull to lift off to access my M32's innards, I put the upper and lower hulls together deliberatly as separate assemblies. When complete and dry fitted together there was a 2mm gap between the inside of the rear plate and the ends of the lower hull sides (where the little steel angle brackets are). Initally an irritation, this has turned out to be advantageous, as it allowed installation of a full width plate to support John Grima's very nice, but quite fragile, tin-plate, exhaust louvres. I also "roofed over" the gap between the hull sides above the exhausts to prevent exhaust "smoke" from re-entering the engine bay and wafting out of the deck grilles. Eventually I plan on installing a firewall as part of the interior detailing (the M32 has an open topped fake turret) which will stiffen up the pannier floor plates.
I also sealed up the engine access door as part of attempts to waterproof the model up to the level of the pannier floor. All electronics are mounted above this level. The M32 has a large rectangular winching hole cut through the glacis at this height anyway...so deep fording will be left to the DDs.
Nice work.
cheers, Fabrice