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Offline Fitz

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Old Sherman, New Paint
« on: October 21, 2022, 06:40:33 AM »


This is a 1:100 (15mm) Sherman I that I printed on my Ender 3 FDM printer a couple or three years ago.

I believe that with the turret bustle and sand skirts it wasn't used in this configuration by the Americans, and in fact I originally printed it for my North African Brits. However, I wanted to try out a test paint for US olive drab, and I created the markings with masking tape over white under-painting instead of decals.

It's an okay enough model for wargaming purposes, though the running gear is very low detail, but even so the layer lines are apparent enough that I don't print vehicles in FDM any more, and reserve that printer for terrain and utility bits and pieces. Vehicles and figures I now print in resin on my Mars Pro.

 

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