Jakko’s Zvezda M4A2 Шерман, 1:35 scale

[Guest]

After finishing a few little details, I sprayed the model in its base colours yesterday:

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The top is Vallejo olive drab, the lower hull and suspension are their US sand, because I want the model to appear as being very dusty so a coat of a sand colour over nearly the whole bottom half of the hull is a good start.

I’m really pleased with the texture on the transmission housing and the turret: applying putty and then sanding it is a method I’ll be using in future.

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The replacement loader’s hatch also came out well, I think,

[Mini Me]

Good to see you got it in the right spot! :thumb2:

[Jim R]

Hi Jakko
Repositioning the hatch has worked well. Very thoughtfully done. Turret texture is nice, very easy to overdo it. Sounds a good idea to spray the lower parts a sandy base ready for weathering.
Jim

[Lee Drennen]

Jakko your updates look very impressive as always and the base coats of paint look nice your moving right along on this project.

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good Jakko :thumb2:

[Guest]

Thanks, guys

[Ian M]

That's coming along nicely. The turret looks great with its corrections. You put more into that turret than I do on a whole tank.
Lol

[Guest]

Thanks, though it looks like more work than it actually was, I would say. The hatch was the most difficult bit, but I spent far longer thinking about how best to do it, than building what I came up with

[Tworrs]

Very nice result Jakko.

[Jon Heptonstall]

Looks really good Jakko.Tracks are excellent.
How do you type in Cyrillic? (Really)
Jon.

[Guest]

For just a few? I use the emoji and symbols window:

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which, on a Mac, you can open from the bottom of the Edit menu, or by pressing the [ICODE]Fn[/ICODE]+[ICODE]E[/ICODE] keys. (Screenshot in Dutch because I was too lazy to quit and restart my browser in order to switch languages so I could have it in English )

If you need them more than that, installing a Cyrillic keyboard (for Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian etc.) layout is going to be more useful, then just switch to that when you need it, probably switching on the on-screen keyboard to help:

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No idea how to get the equivalents for either of the above in Windows or popular flavours of Linux desktops, but I’m sure they’ve got them Just search for something like [ICODE]onscreen keyboard Windows[/ICODE], I suppose.

On a phone or tablet, just use the second method: go into the preferences and add a keyboard for a language that uses Cyrillic.

Another alternative method is to go to something like this page to select, copy and paste the letters you need.

[Jon Heptonstall]

That's great.Thanks Jakko.
Jon.

[MAK2020]

Šerman.

Nice work Jakko!

[Guest]

Good luck getting anyone in a Germanic-language–speaking country to say Š as /ʃ/, though

[stillp]

The voiceless palato-alveolar fricative of course!
Pete