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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Airfix 1/76 Sherman Crab Tank (by Kerem Özkır)

Hello dear friends

Mines are an insidious and dangerous weapon. Various devices have been developed to clear mines. One of them is the apparatus used in the Sherman tank.

The mine flail consists of a number of heavy chains ending in fist-sized steel balls (flails) that are attached to a horizontal, rapidly rotating rotor mounted on two arms in front of the vehicle. The rotor's rotation makes the flails spin wildly and violently pound the ground. The force of a flail strike above a buried mine mimics the weight of a person or vehicle and causes the mine to detonate, but in a safe manner that does little damage to the flails or the vehicle.

Kerem Özkır modeled the Airfix Sherman Crab tank. He used real chains for mine clearance chains..

Very nice model, congratulations man.

Erhan..

Building...

completed model..

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Airfix 1/76 Sherman Crab tank / final & "miniafv special award" (by Erman Özer)

Hello dear modeler,

We are with "miniafv" special award ..

As miniafv team, we wanted to give Miniafv Special Award at Plastic Battle Armor Modeling show. The first time was in 2016, (9th Plasticbattle Armor Modeling Show/2016) Every year will be this award.

And model...
The first part was published last week ... It's a great work on this old Sherman.:https://miniafv.....-176-sherman-crab-tank-first-page.html

And the final...
Congratulations Erman Özer !!!
.
Erhan..

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Airfix 1/76 Sherman Crab tank "first page" (by Erman Özer)

Hello dear friends,

Today comes a new contributor, his name is Erman Özer. I met him first in Ankara (9th Plasticbattle Armor Modeling Show 2016) and his Sherman took "Miniafv special award" .

Now coming construction stages...
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Erhan...

some reference photos