SHERMAN in Color!!

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Jeff

Hey Gang here are a few more color pixs of the ol boy.  A couple I think have been colorized...Enjoy 

Thanks Dave that a great shot!!! 

Sherman ARV using the Sherman V (M4A4) hull.  I believe Resicast and Legend Productions make resin conversion sets for this tank.

Here are some of the colored/colorized ones I have that have been shared yet.

Are more pictures available about it? Super cool subject! 

Some more

Jeff, that is the prototype at Bourges Arsenal in France.  The production tanks for Egypt were on the long A4 hulls which had been refitted with the A2 twin diesels and attendant engine deck & muffler arrangement.  That's a dry-stowage small-hatch hull; a wet-stowage one was used to test the M51 turret for proof-firing.  With the original AMX-30 gun, the turret ring cracked (the hull, not the bolted-in gear race) after two rounds.  That's why the gun was shortened by a meter and the chamber capacity reduced--to keep the old girls in one piece.

It's an interesting vehicle, the Egyptian AMX FL-10 Sherman.  They were after the same thing the Israelis were back in the early fifties, greater punch on the Sherman chassis.  The IDF bought some AMX-13s with this CN75-50 gun, and were impressed with the gun's performance.  Working with France they developed the M50, stuffing the gun into a 75mm Sherman turret by adding an extension to the front which moved the trunnions forward and the bustle on the back as a counterbalance and radio location.  The Egyptians had less money and less engineering expertise, so opted to have the whole FL-10 turret fitted to their Shermans.  It worked, but kept all the disadvantages of both parent vehicles:  The Sherman's high profile, and the cramped crew stations and limited ammo capacity of the oscillating turret.  To the best of my knowledge, the two tanks never actually engaged each other in 1956.