More fun stuff for the Allies! was vaguely thinking about D-Day scenarios and Funnies and thought I should beef up my collection of armoured engineering vehicles. I was buying a load of stuff from Battlefield 3D anyway, and they have all sorts of things in their huge US range so.....
I ended up with this completely impractical Sherman Crab!
Now this is the sort of model which in 20mm would be a fiendishly complex kit with a million parts. But not this resin 3D print, which has precisely two parts. A turret and a hull, the latter has all the mineclearing gubbins moulded on.
I had seriously thought about converting one of my spare Shermans into one of these, but this is just so much easier, if less satisfying.
This is a slightly cruder model than some of the B3D offerings as you can see from the engine deck, but the mine gear, pistons etc are very finely printed.
It sits very nicely though and looks just like the great hunk of metal it is.
It just got painted plain OD, and I added allied stars as none of these were sent to Russia. I puzzled a bit over which bits of the mine clearing gear to paint and in the end I did the piston shafts and drive shaft as oily metal. The actual rotating shaft I did OD but the mine chains are bare metal with a liberal applications of mud and a wash. The whole thing got a lot of dust drybrushed onto it, particularly around the front, but t doesn't show up too well in the photos.
This one is a bit of indulgence, rather like the armoured bulldozer I got last year, but I have got a few scenarios in mind where it might get used. I'm sure you can never have too many armoured engineering vehicles.
