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GSM cover error?
sweaver
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Posted: Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 10:05 PM UTC
On the cover of Great Scale Modeling 2007 there is a picture of a Sherman Firefly. As far as I know, Sherman tracks had two rows of guide teeth, but this one has single theeth tracks stowed on the side that look like they could have come from a German StuG set. Is this a modeling error, or am I missing something?

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Posted: Monday, July 23, 2007 - 12:17 AM UTC

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On the cover of Great Scale Modeling 2007 there is a picture of a Sherman Firefly. As far as I know, Sherman tracks had two rows of guide teeth, but this one has single theeth tracks stowed on the side that look like they could have come from a German StuG set. Is this a modeling error, or am I missing something?

Thanks.


In the immortal words of Monty Python, It's only a model...
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Posted: Monday, July 23, 2007 - 12:38 AM UTC
The tracks were picked up to provide extra armor. It was common practice to use anything and everything you could for the extra armor, especially on shermans.
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Posted: Monday, July 23, 2007 - 01:28 AM UTC

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On the cover of Great Scale Modeling 2007 there is a picture of a Sherman Firefly. As far as I know, Sherman tracks had two rows of guide teeth, but this one has single theeth tracks stowed on the side that look like they could have come from a German StuG set. Is this a modeling error, or am I missing something?

Thanks.


In the immortal words of Monty Python, It's only a model...



LOL....I love that movie! That is too funny.

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Posted: Monday, July 23, 2007 - 10:01 PM UTC

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The tracks were picked up to provide extra armor. It was common practice to use anything and everything you could for the extra armor, especially on shermans.


Thanks Todd! I figured that they wouldn't put anything with that big a problem on the cover of their magazine.
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