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T26E4 Super Pershing Icon set 1.0
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Hello everyone. My next set of icons on my way towards the US heavy tanks is the T26E4 or more commonly known as the Super Pershing. I modeled the early pilot vehicle, the vehicle that was sent to Europe that the field shops added extra armor, and the later model that had a new internal recoil mechanism. Enjoy!
Here is a preview of the set: https://s26.postimg.cc/twawa0c7d/T32_Heavy_Tanks.jpg |
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Great set! :)
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Thanks Monty!
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Since you're doing other US tanks, here's one:
T33 Flamethrower tank. 600 were going to be built from I don't know, very late 1945 to 1946. But with VJ day, the order was killed. |
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Thank you cronos!
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Interesting subject for sure Mark. I know they built 3 T33 pilot vehicles from modified M4A3E2s. Shouldn't be too difficult to create those for you.
But, if I do that I will need to do the POA-CWS-H5. They produced 70 of these from 75mm and 105mm armed Shermans. Although I have only seen 105mm POA-CWS-H5s. |
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Do you have any plans to do the T20 series medium tank prototypes?
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I had not planned on those. I do not believe those ever got deployed even for testing, did they? "Usually" I try to stick to those actually used unless someone asks for them for a mod or something. But, if asked nicely and references provided, I may slip out some unusual from time to time. For example, I built the German Ratte for someone years ago. Lol
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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...ighlight=icons Sorry, I let me World of Tanks T20 interfere with that question. Lol |
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Thank you for your reply. I was thinking of the T20-T25 prototypes. The T23
was put into limited production (250 built), but none were ever put into service. |
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But, to answer your original question. I was not planning on doing those. I'll do a bit of research and see if it makes my list. Are you wanting those for a mod or scenario or something?
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No, just thinking about adding them to my U.S. OB file.
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Do you know which of the T20 series you are looking for? They are numerous.
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Primarily the T23. It's the only one that was put into limited production.
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Added to my list, but I have others I would like to do first. So please be patient with me.
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I know you probably hate me about now, but I just remembered ANOTHER flame tank prototype. :doh: :p But this should be easy to do; it's basically a M26 Pershing with a greeble added to the turret.
Development of the T35 began October 1945; most likely because the "coaxial" flamethrower T33 Sherman was now obsolete as a gun tank in the immediate post war environment against what was projected in the next couple of years, so a project was started to make a Pershing version of the T33 as the T35. |
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:haha: Nah, don't hate ya.
I'll consider putting it on my list Mark. My next subject is going to be William's request for the T23. While I am in my Hunnicut Pershing book I'll dig around and see if there is anything on your T35. :potion: |
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Actually, there's nothing in Hunnicutt's book on the T35.
Most of the information is from documents in the National Archives. |
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Can you find any other pictures or drawings of the T35 flame Pershing then? That is the only picture I have found of that thing.
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Here's the information on it from one such document:
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Consideration was given to use a cast armor blister in the left front corner of the turret to house the flame gun. |
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The wooden mock up is on the right side instead of the left. "If" I were to create it, which side would I put the "cast armor pod" on, where would I put the "jettisonable armored fuel tank"? Back of turret, back deck, or rear of the hull with a relocated exhaust port? A lot of what ifs.
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I recently found a booklet on flame weapons issued 2 June 1945 that shed some light on the Flamethrowing Pershing and why it had so many options considered -- internal gun, external pack; trailer, etc.
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Providing the pressurant needed spherical pressurizant tanks; which could be accommodated in the Sherman easily, thanks to the Sherman having sponsons to shove things into to get them out of the way so that the spheres could be accomodated. The more modern Pershing and the other heavy tanks (T29/T30) were built around "space engineering" concepts which abolished the sponsons; so putting flamethrowers in them with a useable amount of fuel required development of a pump-fed system. |
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Interesting for sure, so with speculation, the operable Pershing Flame tank would be very similar to the standard Pershing. Just like the M48 Flame tank, the M67. So in theory, a shortened main gun barrel or flame thrower in place of the bow machine gun should do the trick for an icon. Thoughts on that?
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