Sherman Firefly Mk Ic (Hybrid) - some questions......

[Tim Bell]

Originally Posted by Chris Preston

'Evening All,

I'm building a 1/ 16th scale Sherman Firefly Mk Ic (Hybrid) and have a couple of "detail" questions for the more knowledgeable Sherman types here.

Q.1. Did British/Commonwealth Sherman Fireflies retain the siren mounted beside the left front headlight and guard when converted into Fireflies?

Q.2. Were the Pioneer Tools mounted on the rear hull held down with leather straps and buckles, or web straps, and if leather, was the leather left in a natural colour or tinted a green?


Cheers,

Chris Preston,
Victoria, BC
Canada

1. No - these were removed

2. I am assuming webbing straps for my VC restoration... but this is assumption at this stage.. I have not got far enough to really care about tying stuff down on the outside of the hull!

Tim

[tankbarrell]

I did answer all these questions on another site but I can do so again here.

It was normal for the sirens to be removed on Commonwealth Shermans but by no means universal. Fireflies would be less likely to retain it but a quick Google for period pictures show at least some retained it.

Tool straps were originally leather, later replaced by web. I would suggest Vc and Ic would be leather and Ic Hybrid likely web but neither is wrong.

[Chris Preston]

Thanks for the replies everyone - very useful.

Cheers,

Chris Preston
Victoria, BC