Well I have looked out the two primary donor kit for this build and there is good news and bad. The good news is, to my pleasant surprise, that the Bradley I had hidden away in the stash is already partly up-armoured - hoorah! The bad news, however, is that I don't have an Easy-Eight Sherman and therefore, will have to convert a standard M4A3. So out came the credit card and hello to AFV Club's HVSS conversion kit - I also ordered a set of AFV Club T-84 tracks to complete the transformation, although annoyingly, they didn't arrive with the rest of the order (angry email already dispatched!)
I already had an AFV Club RWS set knocking around and I'll see if I can incorporate it into the build for added nastiness. I haven't yet found the old GAU-12, I know is lurking somewhere from an old LAV-AD kit but I'm sure it will eventually turn up. The reactive armour I am going to adapt from an old M60 Blazer that is slowly decomposing in the corner.
Finally, I have been looking on-line to see if I could get my hands on a M113 Dozer Blade set (Verlinden do one) as I think it would be just about the right size for the Sherman and would give a more modern feel than the WW2 versions that are around. Unfortunately, said kit is like the proverbial rocking horse pooh. I eventually tracked down a couple of outlets in the US of A but whilst the kits themselves were fairly inexpensive ($16-18), there was no way I was going to spend almost twice as much again to cover shipping costs. I can only assume for that kind of price the delivery is teleported direct to your work bench or parachuted in from orbit. All very annoying and a bit of a waste of time - I will have to scratch build something suitable instead - all very annoying and a bit of a waste of time! If anyone out there knows of a secret supply of 1/35 scale M113 Dozer Blade kits, please give me a call!