Jakko ‌
Not sure if it matters to you, but this is an incorrect Sherman variant for North Africa 🙂 The model basically represents a tank produced in late 1943 or 1944 (large driver's hatches, trailing return rollers, loader's hatch, wide gun shield, stowage rack on the rear hull, gun travel lock, and more) when you would need one from 1942 to be correct for a British or American tank in North Africa.

SmallScaleIndustry . Autor
Jakko, thank you for your comment, I really appreciate it. I was searching a lot, but I missed these details. I think the hull's shape tricked me. The box also contains North Africa painting suggestions, maybe the assembly is different. (I got this kit in assembled state, so don't have the chance to change. Unfortunetly, I have limited time currently, but in this case I will change the model painting for an other, but historically correct one. Do you have any suggestion where to search for good references and pictures? Thank you again. These kind of comments are welcomed! 🙂)

Jakko ‌
I think the instructions include North Africa paint schemes because the kit is old enough that it dates from when people didn't care that much about these things 🙂 The difference between early and late Shermans with a cast hull is more difficult to spot than for the welded-hull types, especially when the hatches are closed.

Your best option would be an American tank in France or Germany, in late 1944 or 1945. Only 100 of these exact tanks (cast hull with large hatches and a 75 mm gun) were actually produced, and to make it worse, most of them were converted to Duplex Drive (swimming) tanks. Some of those were then "unconverted" back to normal tanks … If you look at the third set of photos on the.shadock.free.fr/..a1_largehatches.html you can see two pictures of such a tank. But as this kit is pretty inaccurate anyway, I wouldn't care too much about that if I were you — paint it olive drab with American markings on it, and you'll basically be safe.

SmallScaleIndustry . Autor
Yes, this is an older kit. Thank you for the photos, looking similar. There are differences, but I can live with that I think. 🙂 I will spend some time to find a good looking one with markings, which looks like mine more or less, just to be as accurate as possible.

Jakko ‌
Sounds like a plan 🙂

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