Wounded Chindit

Wounded Chindit

Sunday 18 December 2016

Plastic Soldier's M4A4

I have  been busy painting over the last few weeks, as and when I can. The PeterPig cavalry supply wagon is complete with just a photo or two to take and that's that project put to bed again until later next year.
The British Paras are well under way and I hope to be able to put some pictures of progress on here soon.

But by way of a change (and because of child care duties) I needed something to do inside in bad light.  I picked up a couple of boxes of Plastic Soldier's Sherman's to have a look at and decided to have a go at set Ww2v15011 Allied Sherman M4A4 and Firefly tank.


The set contains 5 sprues to make up 5 Sherman's,  these can either be made up as M4A4 (dry) or Firefly.

On taking the sprues out of the box the detail looked good and the amount of parts for each tank was not too great (even more so when consider there are some unique parts for each version).


The instructions for PSC kits leave a lot to be desired but that have got better over the years and this kit is only a couple of years old.
 I found the first section - Wheel sub assembly very fiddly and a few dry runs on each side was necessary.


Anyway the it went together well and here's a finished example.







 Four more to make up and I'll probably make up 3 of the standard M4A4 and another Firefly. Painting can wait until all are constructed.

Sizewise it does seem to be on the small size so I need to compare it with the PeterPig Sherman I have and get back. 

Thanks for dropping by.

11 comments:

  1. Nice! I am looking forward to FOW version 4 next year. cheers

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    1. Never tried fow but do like their vehicles.
      Cheers Kiwi and have a nice Christmas.

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  2. That's a cracking little kit Dan.

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    1. Thank you kind dear chap and may the festivities be good for you.

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    2. Thanks Phil and a merry Christmas to you.

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  4. I love the PSC Shermans. They scale perfectly with FoW stuff but I've never seen them with Peter Pig. They paint up really easily: https://critfailure.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/heroes.html

    Are you intending to use them for FoW? I have to admit I moved over to Iron Cross.

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    1. PSC do some lovely vehicles - I've never tried fow the look of it didn't seems right with loads of armour driving in to action all close together.

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  5. Looking forward to how these turn out, I've got a Firefly and some M4A4's coming up in the new year too.

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