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  • #154951
    Avatar photoWhirlwind
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    I have quite a variety of 6mm,1/285 and 1/300 Shermans from different manufacturers.  Can anyone tell the differences between them (or perhaps knows the difference without seeing)?

    e.g.? (sorry they are all a bit battered – I am about to start renovating them!)

    More of them here.

    #154958
    Avatar photoDM
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    The one on the left looks like a Heroics and Ros Firefly. The two on the right look like Heroics as well

    #154959
    Avatar photoMartinR
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    The two huge tanks on the left are GHQ and Baccus (you can see how the Baccus stuff is actually around 1/250). No idea about the one which look like a Tiger, but the next two are H&R. The rightmost one on your blog photo is the HR Firefly, or at least, it looks like my old HR Fireflies, there maybe newer sculpts now.

    Absolutely nothing looks like my old Lancashire Shermans, lead blobs with pins for gun barrels.

    "Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" - Helmuth von Moltke

    #154961
    Avatar photoWhirlwind
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    Thanks both.

    I’ll stick on the extra photos here to save people going to the blog:

     

    Martin – could the one on the right of photos 1,2 & 3 be Lancashire? It looks a bit cruder than the rest

    #154982
    Avatar photoJohn D Salt
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    Lancashire? Or Leicester?

    All the best,

    John.

    #155107
    Avatar photoWhirlwind
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    Ah Leicester, of course.

    #155610
    Avatar photoDavid Mawer
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    Good luck with that Whirlwind. You are not alone!

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