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.M4A3 Sherman Thunderbolt VI,37th Tank Bn, Bastogne, Ardennes 1944, Creighton Williams Abrams
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.Dragon
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.1:35
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| Builder: | .Furinkazan
| | Item Status: | .Built To Order / Pre-Order
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Award winner built winter diorama M4A3 VVSS 76mm "Thunderbolt VI",37th Tank Batallion, Bastogne, Ardennes France December 1944 Battle Of The Bulge, Commanded by Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. Add on winter snow field scene diorama platform. Special US Army winter snow camo color scheme with accurate unit markings and realistic heavy muddy weathering. Top building quality of total over 1000 parts with outstanding details throughout the whole model and very high standard accuracy on every individual part. Completely new parts for the hull, suspension assemblies and tracks. This incredibly detailed model captures distinguishing characteristics on the M4A3 such as the large turret with 76mm gun and armor plates. Add on resin fancy items and brass PE parts. Rotating turret and gun elevation. Add lot`s accessories with on-vehicle tools and more.
Diorama Base Features:
- Scratch-built snow winter diorama base with great detail overall.
- Winter front line battlefield scene.
- Realistic grass, mud, snow, gravel and more add-on details.
- Lifelike grass, gravel, mud with great detail, and more.
- Length: 28cm / 11 inches.
- Good for 35 scales Big AFV of Maus, Kingtiger, M1A2 and similar model display.
- Comes with a solid wood platform.
M4A3 Sherman Features:
* Top building quality
* Add on resin ammo case, carton boxes, metal chin and more fancy accessories
* Great crispier details over all model
* Clear parts for the vision block
Turret & Gun
- Brand new tooling for the (76)W early production turret with realistic texture
- Side-molded gun barrel provided
- Detailed mantlet w/coaxial machine gun
- Newly tooled cupola with authentic detail
- Cupola hatch can be assembled open/closed
- MG with hollow muzzle
- Pistol port produced with slide-mold technology
Upper Hull:
- Newly upgraded upper hull with weld lines authentically represented
- Hull edge plates are accurately reproduced, with a correct horizontal upper edge
- Finely rendered headlight and horn guards
- Driver`s and radio operator`s hatches can be modeled open/close
- Detailed hatch periscope units with clear parts and guards
- Gun travel lock can be modeled in travel or combat modes
- New engine-cover support block - APU exhaust pipe
- M4A3 engine deck realistically reproduced
- Completely new air intake with multi-layer details
- Rear hull plate is set at correct angle
- New racks for spare track links
- Fuel caps with interior details can be modeled open/closed
- On-vehicle tools delicately recreated
- Spare wheel, jerrycan and more accessories
Lower Hull:
- New finely detailed rear panel
- Realistic VVSS suspension details
- Updated transmission drive housings
- New tooling - idler tension adjusters
- New tooling tracks
- Multi-part exhaust deflector in great details
Wheels and Tracks:
- New drive sprocket with delicate detail
- Brand new DS T48 track with EEC (Duckbills)
Buffing and polishing to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted with multicolor. Add clear paint for good finishing on decal applying. Washing to enhance the surface detail increase the appearance of depth including panels, doors, hatches, rivets, bolt head and more. Dry brushing to emphasize and highlighting texture with edge for good wear, tear and fading. Multi-color filters for blend color effects. Add nonglossy paint for better finishing. Great detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches, worn and bare metal realistic simulating, flow rust and rain streaks effects, grease with staining appearing, engine smoking and muffler burned representing. Also smear and dirt with dust and real mud and more on real-life weathering. Final protective layer for long-term collection.
Discontinued high-priced kit, the price may higher or lower when you order, a good chance to have a rare kit high building quality model because discontinued kit`s price always goes up. so you order now you save, but if you really want to have cost lower, just switch to other new replacement kits, check our store and contact us for detail.
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M4A3 76mm:
Abrams named all of his tanks "Thunderbolt" and numbered them as he went through the series of tanks issued to him. Of all his tanks probably "Thunderbolt IV," an M4A3 76mm standard production Sherman with VVSS used in the fall of 1944, and "Thunderbolt VII", an M4A3E8 which he used as a combat command commander at the end of the war, are probably the best known. As with many of the 37th`s tanks, "Thunderbolts" had a large cartoon cloud with three lightning bolts painted on its sides along with the name and number in the sequence.
The M4 Medium Tank tank was the main tank designed and built by the US for use in World War II. In the UK lend-lease M4s were dubbed M4 General Sherman after Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, continuing a practice of naming American tanks after famous Generals. The name is often shortened to M4 Sherman or simply Sherman, and quickly became popular in the US as well. M4 tanks made in Canada upto 1943 were given the name Grizzly. In the USSR it was nicknamed `Emcha`.
It was comparatively fast and maneuverable, reliable, and easy to produce and service and served with the US, British (including Commonwealth), USSR, French, and other allied forces. The Sherman was not just one tank but a whole series that did differ significantly in across models depending on intended role and traits, including the heavily armored and gunned "Sherman Jumbo" to the amphibious DD Tanks. After the war, Shermans ended up in other countries` arsenals, and upgraded versions saw combat in a number of smaller wars in the lat 20th century.
Creighton Abrams General, United States Army:
An outstanding tank commander in the U.S. Army during World War II, General Creighton W. Abrams (1914-1974) continued to serve in the army in various capacities including commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972 and as Army chief of staff from 1972 to 1974.
Creighton W. Abrams was born on September 15, 1914, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from West Point in 1936 with a mediocre academic record and a reputation as a prankster. After finishing the Cavalry School at Fort Bliss, Texas, he served with the First Cavalry Division and later with the newly created First Armored Division.
During World War II, Abrams emerged as one of the most aggressive and effective tank commanders in the U.S. Army. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in September 1942 and in September 1943 he was given command of the 37th Tank Regiment. His regiment led the sweep of Gen. George Patton`s Third Army across Europe. In December 1944 it broke through German lines to relieve the defenders of Bastogne. Abrams himself is said to have worn out six tanks during the war, and his outfit was credited with having destroyed more than 300 German vehicles, 150 guns, and 15 tanks. No less an authority than Patton designated Abrams the "best tank commander in the Army."
Following World War II, Abrams carried out a variety of tasks. As director of tactics at the Armored School at Fort Knox, he rewrote the field manual on armored tactics. He subsequently commanded the 63rd Tank Battalion in Europe and the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment. In the Korean War he served as chief of staff of three different army corps.
Promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 1956, Abrams served as deputy assistant chief of staff and as a division commander in Europe. During the domestic crisis caused by racial integration of the universities of Mississippi and Alabama in the early 1960s, he assumed command of the federal troops readied for possible intervention. He was subsequently promoted to major general and appointed vice chief of staff.
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