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Hey folks, here is the ILK Sherman build, first up some self made 3D corrections to some of the kit parts. Track: The kit supplied track not a common track for the Sherman, besides I like the look of the red meat T66 rubber chevrons. These went through a few redesigns as I tried using the kit end connectors and just designing the pads. I also tried using resin pins, both thoughts did not work in the end. The final design was all new pads, connectors and brass pins that I cut by hand! The resin pins gave the track too much stretch and as you know the Sherman has "live" track with no slack like the Russian T-34 style "dead" track. So pulling them tight with resin pins would leave too much gap between the links.
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With all this ground pounder stuff going on, I couldn't help but not come out with my little project. It's a Dragon Sherman with the composite hull that I'll be converting to a Firefly. Here's the base kit I'm starting with. And the conversion set I'm using: I know Dragon has a hybrid Firefly kit but I couldn't find one so this will work just fine. I previously built the original version that Dragon put out in the early'90s of the Firefly. Yes, this'd are Typhoon rocket rails on the turret. The Coldstreasm Guards mounted a bunch on their Fireflies. I haven't found any mention of how well they worked.
