Sherman Twaby ARK remixed
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This was intended to be a remix of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4652586, but actually there’s very little of that left… I was happy to see that model posted here, I do like modified engineering vehicles of WWII, but immediately I saw issues. For a start, the photograph of the real thing used to illustrate the model was clearly a Sherman V or M4A4 with the Chrysler Multibank engine, and, so, the lengthened hull and bigger gaps between wheel bogies. The model used an M4 hull. There were 4 supports on the fixed ramp in the picture, and only 3 on the model. And the ramps looked wrong. I started with slicing the fixed ramps off, then slicing the support struts off the hull, and resizing & repositioning them to fit on m_bergman’s Sherman V hull from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3553160. I had to modify the supports a bit & add a 4th one. I then modified the ramps, again using the ones from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4585573. And I chopped the tracks off to make it easier to print. Now, I’m not claiming my model is accurate, it’s just MORE accurate… All my measurements were done by eye from the photographs of the real thing available online. Speaking of which, these photographs make it clear there was no fixed blueprint for this vehicle. Some had longer ramps, some wider ramps, some had the fixed ramps angled over the hull rather than being flat (at least two different versions of that), etc. One even shows the gun travel lock still in place on the upper glacis, despite there being no turret and, therefore, no gun… That same photograph shows the head & shoulders of a crewman who must be standing where the turret was. Given they didn’t bother removing the travel lock, I can’t believe they’d plate over the turret ring AND provide a hatch for him to be standing in, so I gave a simple representation of an open turret ring. Note that the photographs show my test print posed with the ramps just tacked in place with a bit of PVA, so they’re not dead straight.
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