Tamiya 1/35 US Medium Tank M4A3E8 Sherman “Easy Eight” Build Thread!! (June 2025)

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12 minutes ago, FullArmor said:

I've never built a Sherman. I might try this myself. I'm looking forward to following this build.🙂

Tamiya’s 1/35 Easy Eight kit is a joy to build. I usually find Tamiya’s rubber tracks pretty accurate and easy to use however the E8 kit tracks are a bit fiddly.

Over all it’s an amazing armor kit!!

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11 hours ago, FullArmor said:

I've never built a Sherman. I might try this myself. I'm looking forward to following this build.🙂

It’s a really well engineered kit and I think you’d enjoy building it.

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I can see cast marks around the driver and co-drivers hatches but the rest of the upper hull doesn’t show any. I believe the upper hulls were cast so I’ll have to do further research.

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Except for the “target stars” this is my planned camouflage scheme.

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So I’m really liking this technique.
I’m quite pleased with the results and it’s simple to do. Definitely a skill set keeper!

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OMG I’ve been sleep ordering again!!!!
Oh well I guess I’ll keep and build it!!!😢

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Ralph…..Ralph……wake up Ralph…..you’re sleep ordering again!!! Wait this is a hard to find kit plus with your Amazon credit you’ll only pay $22.99!!! Oh okay go back to sleep!!!