It was helpful because lots and lots of this tanks was transported by ships as a land-lease to USSR and as reinforcement to US army. And to minimize the amount of parts sticking out and potentially be damaged or damaging to people this protective case was made. Though I think the primary idea behind this part was to protect .30cal hmg from rain and mud while not in battle

Never understand why they didn't make the turret just wider.

@@LokkieF I dunno, tbh

@@LokkieF would have meant a major design change, which would have needed approval up and down the chain of several large army bureaucracies. Had they done that the M24 would have been in production before the change was approved! This way it was as easy as slapping on some sheet metal and be done with it. Not sure where it was done, but wouldn't be surprised if they were shipped from the factory without it fitted but with the precut pieces of steel in the tank, and then had it bolted or welded on in an army depot, making it at least on paper a "field modification" and therefore much easier to get approval for. Yes, the US Army bureaucracy was as bad during WW2 as it is today.

exactly lol

Didn’t that appear on the Chieftan’s Channel.

@@user-wf2lm3vi7o it wasn't fitted on every M5. Probably depends on which plant built it, which army depot stored it prior to shipping overseas, and which unit was getting it.

Patience..

Takoms FT-17

On this particular kit you can't really make it moveable. Classy molded the main horizontal suspension arms together. On the real tank. they operate independently and one or the other can go up and down under spring tension. But, in the kit, they can just pivot back and forth like a see saw, and the range of motion is minimal at best. Just about 2mm.

I am building the kit now. It is basically accurate but most of the detail is really soft and not very well rendered. Much of it is underscale, too, like all of the welds. Things like bolt heads that should be hex shaped are just round gumdrops and Classy has mis interpreted some raised bolts and made them countersunk, and some internal screws are represented as external bolts. Ovarall it has the detail of a 1980s Italeri kit just blown up to 1/16. For example, the Browning .30s are just one piece each and you have to drill out all of the holes in the cooling jackets !

@@davidnickels3325 Ohhhh my... I will have to think twice if I still wanna commit to building one. I mean, probably correcting all of it will require the same amount of time it'll take to build three or four 1/35 scale models. So many kits... so little time. Thanks anyway, David! Will follow your build with great interest!

You and 47 other people. 8-D

Found the same, way more seams than I’ve found with other 1/35 Takom kits. Quality control, like the 2 halves weren’t joined properly, but everything has seams. Also suprised by the appearance of so much flash, since it’s a new release. Some sprue’s are good and some bad, hit and miss. Fit issues too. Much slower build.

Spaced armour

Some weird shaped armor then I guess

There is no such thing as "to many models" :)

@@randomnickify Right is right but time isn't infinite :D

Armour to protect a machine gun?

Enough with the Shermans...

Just buy a Heng Long M4A3, disassemble and reassemble.

@@PieAndChips It's not the same thing.

@@Octabust you could always fork out for a Tamiya

kalvie mutapi alpine miniature does some very nice figures. Casting is perfect in them. Not too idiotically expensive.