Global Scale Modeller

Hello all, and welcome to another build by yours truly.

I've gotten back to the bench these past few weeks after an unfortunate hiatus, and it has been highly rewarding. I had started Tamiya's M4A3 Sherman 105 kit back in August, hoping to enter it into the I Heart Tamiya GB, but that plan did not work out. I got into it last week and I realized that I wanted to take pictures of the process and post them in a build, but I had already done all of the assembly.

Here are all the assembled parts, ready to be primed. I decided to leave the wheel assemblies off until later.



This was the first time I had tried doing my on sponsons to make the kit more realistic. I cut them out of the card that had come in my last dress shirt. Not a fantastic option, sheet styrene would have been better, but I didn't have any around.



I have already painted the commander figure that came with the kit. It's actually not that bad for Tamiya's add-on figures. I chose this figure because his binoculars hide my pathetic attempt at giving him a face.





I primed it all last night with Ultimate Black Primer; excellent stuff, by the way.



For the final product I'm looking at one of the suggested kit versions, in basic olive drab. More on this at a later date. Cheers!

For anyone who may be interested in this build, I will be moving it to the Winter is Coming GB. You can find it there under the same name.

That should be interesting.