New civil service exams and new updates for: Panzer III and M4A1 Sherman (new project) - March 18, 2023
Hello everyone. It's me Antony, back with another Blog here to start 2023.
For today, I'm going to announce I'm going to resume my studies for an upcoming civil service exam, scheduled on May of 7th. For that, I'll slow down my activities related to Blender and other things.
What about that exam you performed on January 15?
The results were announced, but I guess I'd be at the end of the queue as I got the necessary score to qualify, as usual, half of the exam.
There was another exam I performed these days for school organizer agent. Fortunately I could performed it online and I managed to get a good score, with only three missed questions. And on Thursday, I went to the Board of Education (on Portuguese is Diretoria de Ensino) after they announced the calling for the agent vacancies. Sadly there was one vacancy for the town I live and most of the vacancies are for some schools too far away. As always, influence from my family as they say it could be too costly. (Yeah, Old Man might give me some job opportunities, although some of them are too far away and he would argue with my family about it. I really wanted anything, even if I want to leave my own town, my own country and my own family. Please, don't mind me.)
Now that the job contract at the public health center has ended, I'm going to have all the time to study, do my personal things like Blender, Unity, literary works and finding a new job in the meantime. I'm still waiting to be called to work as attendant at the public health center or as a teacher by the Government's selective process I assigned for a while. Both are great in case I'd receive some payment for my services and skills.
Putting my personal news aside, let's go to the important thing here in this Blog. For today, For today, I'm going to bring new images of the Panzer III Ausf. J1.
So far, looks good. I added the Maybach engine exhaustion outlets, the tracks, the middle chassis ring, the shock absorber and the rear lights. There's also some plates on the rear section of the middle chassis. I guess it's associated to the engine access ports.
While I was working on the Panzer III, I noticed the Blender 3.4.1 was crashing and taking a while to respond at some moments, especially when I use the Snap tools and adjust some vertices / edges / faces or the location / rotation / scale. In response to that, I migrated the project to the 2.93.5 while I uninstall the 3.4.1 to return with the 3.3.1.
I plan to add the front lights, but I'd do something different for them. Other components to add are the minor parts for the suspension system, the hatches for the driver and engine, the wires and minor changes on the top plates for the wheels and tracks.
Before I conclude this Blog, there's one last thing to show you. And again, my habit of starting new projects while I have 'thousands' of undergoing projects to conclude is quite interesting. While I have mostly German tanks, I decided to start a new one but for the Americans.
The tank of choice is the M4 Sherman. I started it in Blender 2.93.5 version. In case you want to know it, here's a brief story. The M4 was named by the British after the American General William Tecumseh Sherman. Before the United States entered World War 2, most of their armored vehicles were M2 Light Tank and the M2 Medium Tank - both obsolete due to its 37 mm cannons, a very high silhouette and light armor plating. After the fall of France in 1940, American engineers were assigned to develop a new tank, capable of housing a 75 mm gun. The first tank to carry this weapon was the M3 Lee - designed as an interim tank while the engineers studied to develop a proper turret to house the 75 mm gun on its successor. The T6 prototype was completed on 2 September 1941. The hull and turret from the initial models consisted of a single steel casting component. As the war progressed, new models used welded plates as the need to reinforce its armor protection to face modern German tanks like the Panzer IV Ausf G and H, StuG III, Panther and the dreadful Tiger I and Tiger II. In addition, different engines, track suspension systems and weapons retrofitted the M4 Sherman into different variants, highlighting the M4A1, M4A3E2 "Jumbo", M4A3, M4A3E8 "Easy Eight", M4A4 and the British Sherman Firefly - carrying the more powerful 76.2mm Ordnance QF 17-pounder. Other variants included the M4 Sherman Crocodile: the flame-thrower version of the M4A3, the M1 dozer blade and the Sherman Crab equipped with flail for clearing enemy mine fields, the M32 Tank Recovery Vehicle, the 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 - nicknamed Priest by the British, the 3-inch GMC (Gun Motor Carriage) M10 and the 90 mm GMC M36 'Jackson' Tank Destroyers, the amphibian Sherman DD (Duplex drive) and the T34 Calliope (M4 Sherman equipped with rocket launchers like a Soviet Katyusha). The M4 was widely used in several WW2 campaigns, from North Africa to the Mediterranean, Italy, from D-Day to Germany and the Pacific Theater. After WW2, the M4 Sherman remained in American service until 1957, but the lack of sufficient numbers of modern armored vehicles made the M4 to see action in the modern era after the Korean War. Aside from the American and the British Commonwealth (England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and British Colonies), the Soviet Union, the Republic of China, Brazil and France also operated the M4 Sherman. In Post-WW2, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Israel and other NATO nations received the M4 tanks.
The model selected was the M4A1 Sherman. I'll show you the first images of it.
Alright. The first images of the M4A1. During the development, I noticed the hull and the turret might requires some rework. Due to the drawings angle, some things didn't came out nice. Still, I'm trying and trying until everything looks good.
One thing I noticed when it comes to the Sherman variants, the M4A1 had a turret and a hull of steel-cast while the M4 and M4A2, M4A3E2 'Jumbo' and M4A3E8 'Easy Eight' adopted welded steel plates to build it. With this in mind, I plan to include some Nodes to simulate the machined steel texture.
The wheels and the suspension system are good, unless I plan to add more details. It will receive the leaf spring based on the photos I have of the M4 Sherman. Other things to add are the shaft to connect it to the chassis; and the front wheel. The tracks are also planned to be added, yet I'll do that with the original model from the M3 Half-track after some adjustments.
Other components to add are the Browning .50 caliber machine gun and the Browning M1919 barrels, the antenna, the engine exhaustion outlet, the decals, the hatches, the tools and others. I may do something similar to the Panzer IV and Panzer III, like the variants with different cannons. But this topic will be covered abroad in the future.
Well, that's it for now my friends. I hope you enjoy this Blog. In case I have some spare time to enjoy, I'll be working on other things aside from Blender projects and my personal things. Until the time comes, you will be surprised to see them. See you next time.
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