CapnJim's WW2 Stuff: Spring '45 Scenario #1 AAR...Page 17...27 Jul 25).

[CapnJim]

Thanks, fellas.  Appreciate it...

[CapnJim]

Started working on some WW2 vehicles, as I get ready to foist some WW2 scenarios on my regular gaming group.

First done is a US M8 armored car.  It's a 28mm Warlord Games plastic kit.  Stowage is from a Rubicon plastic stowage kit, and the vehicle commander is from Wargames Factory's plastic US Infantry set. 

Here it is:









After I do up an MDF farmhouse, my next vehicle will be a US M4(76) Sherman.

[carlos marighela]

Nice looking Greyhound. One of the better Italeri/Warlord kits.

[Utgaard]

Nice one, like the decent weathering.

[carlos marighela]

BTW mate, if you ever feel the need for a second M8, the Rubicon kit is a cracker and gives you a few more options (including a buld as an M20).

For various reasons I built up a collection of M8s. The plastic Warlord/Italeri  M8 and the original resin/metal version (which is crud) as well as the Rubicon version. Alas, they all got nuked in a 'wife insists on cleaning that incident'* along with a Stuart and the rest of the Indochina armour. Last year I picked up the Tamiya 1/48 version for more modern adventures but yet to build it.


*An eight foot plus fall rarely does kits any good, especially if they are in a box with heavier items.

[CapnJim]

Thanks, fellas.

If I do a 2nd M8, it will be a Rubicon kit.  That way, I can see how the 2 compare...

My Rubicon M4A1 (76mm) is about halfway done. I plan to post pics upon its completion (perhaps as early as this weekend...).

[CapnJim]

Well, I finished the M4A1 Sherman (76).  Mostly anyway.  It's a Rubicon kit, too, with stowage from the Rubicon Allied Stowage kit.  The kit come with 2 different turrets and three different 76mm guns.  I decided to go with the later model turret, and the gun with e muzzle brake.

I wasn't fond of the TC in the kit, so I will look for another one.  I have lots of options, so I just gotta look for the "right" one.









That gives me 2 M4s with 75mm guns (one each Warlord and Rubicon), and this 76mm-armed one...

[carlos marighela]

Really lovely work on that Sherman Jim. Fine looking bit of kit, nicely finished. 

There's a pleasing aesthetic quality to the shape of those cast hull M4A1 models

[Sakuragi Miniatures]

This quote sums up my feeling on  Shermans-

"We had two platoons of M4s, a 76mm M4A1, five high-powered Fireflies, half a squad of Jumbos, a whole galaxy of M4A1s,A2s,A3s, a quartet of 105mms, a quartet of Easy Eights, a case of random bits, a pintle mount, and two dozen sprues of various Rubicon bits. Not that we needed all that for the game, but once you get locked into a serious Sherman collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."

[carlos marighela]

Apologies to one Hunter S. Thompson.

[Gunbird]

This quote sums up my feeling on  Shermans-

"We had two platoons of M4s, a 76mm M4A1, five high-powered Fireflies, half a squad of Jumbos, a whole galaxy of M4A1s,A2s,A3s, a quartet of 105mms, a quartet of Easy Eights, a case of random bits, a pintle mount, and two dozen sprues of various Rubicon bits. Not that we needed all that for the game, but once you get locked into a serious Sherman collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."

Excellent!  (brings back musical memories)

[CapnJim]

A.  Thanks, carlos.

B.  Funny.  It does fit, though, as there were about a bazillion models and variants of Shermans...  

[HerbertTarkel]

Those look great! Canada used the Greyhound into Korea as a recce troop vehicle! And all the Shermans were “acquired” from the Marines. The armoured squadron showed up with M10 open-top which obviously made no sense for Korea.

[carlos marighela]

A.  Thanks, carlos.

B.  Funny.  It does fit, though, as there were about a bazillion models and variants of Shermans...

There was a 'convertible' version of the Sherman, the Kangaroo. So once you have found suitably scaled miniatures of a 300 pound Samoan attorney and Raoul Duke, you'll have a suitable ride to Las Vegas.

I have the Rubicon M4A2, kitted out as a Soviet tank. They are fun little models to make and to detail.

[HerbertTarkel]

There was a 'convertible' version of the Sherman, the Kangaroo. So once you have found suitably scaled miniatures of a 300 pound Samoan attorney and Raoul Duke, you'll have a suitable ride to Las Vegas.

I have the Rubicon M4A2, kitted out as a Soviet tank. They are fun little models to make and to detail.

The Kangaroo was not based on the Sherman it was based on defrocked Priests, initially, and then Ram tanks - and was a distinctly Canadian thing. 😇