Meplat Posted September 23, 2017 Report Share Posted September 23, 2017 17 minutes ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said: Yeah, the GAA was one bad ass mill, it had forged rods, with full floating wrist pins, I can't find a source on if the pistons were cast or forged, but I'd bet forged, since everything else was so heavy duty. I'm really curious why the Army didn't try and get a little more power out of it. Because, "durabilty"/ Low stress means long life. Walt could tell you, ever seen the mill for a M48 or M60 tank? Holy shit. a rodders dream. Absurdly overbuilt, massive cooling, gigantic valves. Any of the "Patton"mills in WW2 would have been stuffed in bombers, just because of their power to weight ratios. A late M60 tank in WW2 would have stunned the Germans. Superb armor, immensely reliable, and the running gear. Like nothing they have seen. A tiny automatic trans coupled to a huge air cooled V-12. Great fun to imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted September 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2017 1 minute ago, Meplat said: Because, "durabilty"/ Low stress means long life. Walt could tell you, ever seen the mill for a M48 or M60 tank? Holy shit. a rodders dream. Absurdly overbuilt, massive cooling, gigantic valves. Any of the "Patton"mills in WW2 would have been stuffed in bombers, just because of their power to weight ratios. A late M60 tank in WW2 would have stunned the Germans. Superb armor, immensely reliable, and the running gear. Like nothing they have seen. A tiny automatic trans coupled to a huge air cooled V-12. Great fun to imagine. I always like to imagine what their reaction to Willow Run or the Fisher or Chrysler Tank Arsenals. They really had nothing comparable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 @Jeeps_Guns_Tanks was it the T8E1 or T8E2 muzzle brake that was standardized as the M2? I see references to either one being standardized Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted September 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 Hmm, I have no idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted September 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 Here are the latest images I have fixed. I'm getting much better at fixing bad sections of the image, and I found a way to blur the pixilated scanned as black and white or worse, run through a photocopier, to actually make the shading, that the scanning process destroyed, looking pretty good again. This, Can look like this: This level of improvement requires a lot more time. Some others. This is what I've been doing, with a game or two of Warthunder thrown in. The M46 Tiger is rad. LoooSeR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 It's T8E1 in all the other places, must have been a typo. That makes sense, since the forged muzzle brake can't be easier to produce than cast. Also there's a turret basket on the T23 turret? I thought the turret basket was eliminated on 76 mm Shermans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted September 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 4 hours ago, EnsignExpendable said: It's T8E1 in all the other places, must have been a typo. That makes sense, since the forged muzzle brake can't be easier to produce than cast. Also there's a turret basket on the T23 turret? I thought the turret basket was eliminated on 76 mm Shermans. Early t23 turrets had full baskets but as they improved it, the basket got smaller and smaller to the point it covered leas than half the floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 Interesting, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted September 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 So I did this one tonight. And I fixed the not exactly white background around this one.... EnsignExpendable and LoooSeR 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 Turns out the Firefly wasn't really the Firefly DogDodger 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogDodger Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 That's an interesting topic as, like with the Valentine, nobody appears to know where the name originated. In his book on the Firefly, Hayward gives a bit of background: Quote One point that needs to be made early is that the name Firefly is not included in any War Office or Ministry of Supply technical or policy files. Nor was it used by ministers, generals or senior officials in any filed correspondence that the author has seen whilst researching at the Public Records Office (PRO). Typically, it is referred to as Sherman 17-pdr (with many variations) or the official designation of 17-pdr armament C as used in the Sherman IC or VC for the M4 17-pdr and M4A4 17-pdr respectively. The name was used at Brigade and Regimental level in Twenty-First Army Group unit war diaries from March, April and May 1944...These are mentioned as early as March and at the time of the first issues, so it does not seem to have had time to develop within units as a nickname...It is also worth noting that only some units used the name. Most of the units from the sample of war diaries examined still referred to their vehicles as Sherman 17-pdrs or Sherman VCs, not Fireflies...One other comment by Jeff Plowman was that he had not found any mention of the name Firefly by New Zealand units in Italy, where 17-pdr Sherman was used. The issue of the name is further confused by the 24th Lancers use in a report from July in Normandy of the names 'Mayfly' and 'Mayflies' (WO171/849, 24th Lancers War Diary) . Sergeant Jack Moat, whom the author has interviewed, took Fireflies into action and had three shot out from under him...stated that he picked up his first example before D-Day in 1944 and always knew the 17-pdr armed Sherman as a Firefly...The name Firefly seems also to have been used for rearmed US Motor Gun Carriage [sic] M10Cs (commonly called Achilles, although in the files variations on M10 17-pdr is more usual). A 1944 caption at the Imperial War Museum for an M10 17-pdr refers to it as a Firefly. What's the date on that Canadian document? Collimatrix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 Interesting, in the documents I've seen, the GMC M10 mounting the 17-pounder is called Achilles Ic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 2 hours ago, EnsignExpendable said: Turns out the Firefly wasn't really the Firefly To make things a bit more legible Quote For some reason, the origin of which is not clear, the Sherman mounting 17-Pdr gun has been named "Firefly". In point(?) of that this name has already been allocated to an entirely different equipment and will NOT be named for this 17-Pdr Sherman, which should be referred to as the 'Sherman V.C.". The system of nomenclature(?) to be adopted in relation to Shermans carrying other than the 75 mm gun is as follows: -"A" after the mark of tank indicates the 76 mm gun, e.g., SHERMAN IIA -"B" after the mark of tank indicates the 105 mm How., e.g. SHERMAN IVB -"C" after the mark of tank indicates the 17-Pdr gun, e.g. SHERMAN V.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted September 27, 2017 Report Share Posted September 27, 2017 This M4A1 Sherman tank that I saw in Nokesville this past weekend is the oldest running Sherman tank in the world. I got to see it drive around and fire some blanks. Pretty cool. Belesarius, LoooSeR and Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted September 27, 2017 Report Share Posted September 27, 2017 6 hours ago, Scolopax said: To make things a bit more legible "In point of fact" is the text you're missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted September 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Walter_Sobchak said: This M4A1 Sherman tank that I saw in Nokesville this past weekend is the oldest running Sherman tank in the world. I got to see it drive around and fire some blanks. Pretty cool. Very nice, I bet that's not it's original gun mount! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted September 27, 2017 Report Share Posted September 27, 2017 14 minutes ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said: Very nice, I bet that's not it's original gun mount! Yes, very unlikely. Those direct vision slits mark this is a very early production vehicle. I couldn't get up high enough to see if it had the loaders hatch. I'm going to guess the one piece final drive assembly is not original. They ran this vehicle during the re-enactment of a Marine assault on a bunker. It fired some blanks and motored about while the Marines fired and advanced until they could use the flame thrower. It was pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted September 29, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 I did this one, I think it turned out really well, I'm getting a little better with each one, but not much faster. LoooSeR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted October 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 This is the next one in the "Hatches" Series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted October 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2017 Another one and a minor one. Meplat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted October 4, 2017 Report Share Posted October 4, 2017 Hey Jeeps, check out this cool photo of a Sherman Meplat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted October 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2017 Man, that's a really weird looking Sherman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted October 5, 2017 Report Share Posted October 5, 2017 Yeah, something chafes me about that Sherman, but I can't quite tell what. Jeeps_Guns_Tanks and EnsignExpendable 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That_Baka Posted October 5, 2017 Report Share Posted October 5, 2017 18 hours ago, EnsignExpendable said: Hey Jeeps, check out this cool photo of a Sherman Isn't it Chafee ? Atleast turret shape and hmg mountings seem simular. I yet seen similar M4 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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