Award Winner Built Dragon 1/35 IDF M-51 Super Sherman Medium Tank +PE

IDF M51 Super Sherman Medium Tank. Award winner built and painted with real life heavy weathering. Beautiful IDF desert color with accurate decals and unit markings. Top building quality with outstanding details throughout whole model and very high standard accuracy on every individual part. Add brass photo-etched parts and clear parts.

Superb DS tracks with HVSS suspension and road wheel detail. Rotating turret and French CN75-50 gun elevation. Add on vehicle tools and more add on details.

Top building quality with very high standard moulding with sublime details over all. Superb accurate on each small parts. Turret features some nice details including more weld seams, casting texture panels and other surface details. All hatches and commander copula with great details both side such as latch, handle, periscope and more. Machine gun is better detailed.

The highly detailed main gun barrel gets a superbly detailed mantlet. The hull with plenty of fine detail including weld marks and more.

Finely detailed deck surface and engine grille reproducing. The road / idler wheels and drive sprockets have detail on both sides with great tooth ring details. Special on HVSS suspension with great details.

Lifelike DS track with crisply details and right sagging finish. Add on vehicle tools, tow cable and more accessories.

Buffing and polishing to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted with multicolor. Add clear paint for good finishing on decal applying. Washing to enhance the surface detail increase the appearance of depth including panels, doors, hatches, rivets, bolt head and more. Dry brushing to emphasis and highlighting texture with edge for good wear, tear and fading. Multi-color filters for blend color effects. Add non glossy paint for better finishing. Great detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches, worn and bare metal realistic simulating, flow rust and rain streaks effects, grease with staining appearing. Also smear and dirt with dust and real mud and more on real life weathering.

Final protective layer for long term collection. The American M-4 Sherman tank has seen battle with the IDF in four major conflicts, from 1948 to 1973, more than any other tank. It had also been modified and more sub-variants of it were produced more than any other tank in IDF service - from a main battle tank to engineer vehicle, self propelled gun and anti-radar missle launcher. After the end of the second world war, thousands of M-4 Sherman tanks were taken out of service by the Allied armies. That made those tanks almost the only ones available to the young state of Israel - with it`s economic struggles and the embargo on weapon sells to it by most countries.

The IDF eventually bought 35 of these, but only 14 were operational by the end of the war. Since these tanks had sabotaged guns, some were regunned with the Krup 75mm field gun.

In collaboration with France, the tanks were regunned with the M50 75mm gun ("Sherman M50") and, later, with a 105mm gun ("Sherman M51"). The Sherman saw action in the 1956 "Kadesh" operation in Sinai, against the Egyptian army (who employed it`s own version of the M-4, returreted with AMX-13 turret). In 1967, Sherman brigades were still the mainstay of the Israeli armored forces, though more modern MBT`s were in service at the time. In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Sherman tanks fought, as always, in the front lines. Fighting against Syrian and Egyptian T-55 and T-62 MBT`s with a WW2 vintage weapon, the Sherman crewmen made true the motto of the IDF`s armor corps: "Man is the steel".

No other vehicle in IDF use was modified and had so many variants based upon as the Sherman. Besides it`s use as a tank, there were engineer variants, mine plowers, rescue vehicles, gun practice moving targets, self propelled guns, mortars and MLRs, ambulance and many more. The M-50/155 Howizter is another conversion of the M-4 Sherman.

The M-50 is an Israeli indeginious self propelled gun - a French 155mm howitzer was fitted on a Sherman chassis. The item "Award Winner Built Dragon 1/35 IDF M-51 Super Sherman Medium Tank +PE" is in sale since Saturday, June 25, 2016. This item is in the category "Toys & Hobbies\Models & Kits\Military\Armor".

The seller is "dreamworkshobby" and is located in Scarborough, Ontario. This item can be shipped worldwide.

Brand: Dragon Models
MPN: Does not apply
Scale: 1:35
Type: Armor