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Tom B. (TomsStuff)
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M4A3E8 "Easy Eight" Diorama 1/72

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10 November 2024, 13:43 -

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My diorama "Trough the Westwall" will be my first try at 3D printing miniatures and possibly building a bunker. The main element will be Trumpeter´s 1/72 M4A3E8 Sherman with some nice OKB resin tracks and a mix of aftermarket, 3d printed and sculpted stowage/sandbags. Because it was my first try at resin tracks, I did not do a perfect job at fitting them and I already fixed them to the vehicle, so I have to paint the assembled model.
The overall scene will be set somewhere in early 1945 with the vehicle crawling trough some rather wet and muddy ground along an abandoned bunker or tank turret emplacement... I still have to figure out which option I will take, although I have a spare Italeri Panzer IV-turret lying around...
The figures are from .stl-files bought from CGTrader then resized, supported and printed by myself using my Photon Mono 3D printer. The first two figures came out rather nicely even though being designed for 1/25 originally 🙂 There only was a little missprint on the head of one of the GIs, so I had to resculpt a bit with Milliput.
Milliput was also used to sculpt some questionable looking sandbags on the tank. Further stowage is also being printed.
As for the terrain I decided for a destroyed bunker embedded in a slope with the tank driving in front of it. The terrain has been sculpted onto the foam using air drying clay that has been fixed with woodglue, textures will be made with acrylic pastes from AMMO/AK.
I also used my new static grass applicator to put on some grass that I will paint together with the ground. Other vegetation willl be added afterwards.

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1:72 M4A3E8 (T66 Track) (Trumpeter 07225)1:72 Tracks for M4 family, T80 (OKB Grigorov S72216)

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