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My name is Jason Lehrer, currently doing my masters degree at the University of Western Ontario. I've been modeling
on and off since the age of ten, jumping from ships to tanks and back for quite some time. I never really got into modeling
seriously until a year and a half ago and have been hooked ever since. I'm continually striving to improve my results
and am always open to new suggestions and techniques, which is primarily why I joined the club.
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This is the AFV Club M115 8 inch howitzer kit, built using the Eduard Long Tom photoetch update and Hobbyfan Long Tom
gun crews 1 and 2. PSP wheels replaced the modern tread pattern the AFV club kit comes with and the ammunition is also
a separate AFV Club kit as well. This summer I even got to climb on one of these when I went to visit Aberdeen Proving
Grounds.
This is the Academy M10 GMC kit, which builds up phenomonally nicely. The only additions to this kit came from
my spares box and a set of correct tracks from an old tamiya sherman kit. The rolled up camoflage netting as well as
most of the rest of the stowage is scratchbuilt, which looks infinitely better than most resin casts. All painting was
done with Tamiya acrylics and weathered with oil paints and pastels. The cow, beauty that she is, came from the Verlinden
'cows' set.
For the past few months I've been working on a bizarre diorama idea I had one day while staring at the old Sherman sitting
in the park near my house, wondering what it looked like back during WW2. Certainly then it didn't have the garish gloss
dark green paint, nor the gloss black-painted tracks...
And thus this diorama idea was born. On the left is an
M4A3 Sherman operating in the ardennes during the battle of the bulge. It has been hit on the right side of the turret,
severing one crew member's arm. He's being pulled out of the tank by the commander as they bail out, infantry attempting
to provide cover fire so the tankers have time to get out.
On the right is the tank 50+ years later. Much of
the suspension has been cobbled together from other tanks, the tracks have been replaced with whatever was available that
would fit, and plaques adorn its front and side. A little girl stares up at her grandfather, who himself is missing
the same arm as the wounded tanker on the other side (the same tanker 50+ years later?). The single shot penetrating
the turret is visible, though it's been painted over. She askes "Grandpa, what did you do during the war?"
This is the Tamiya's Leopard 2A5 kit.
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