Killick64-
My personal "nightmare" involves finding the correct markings for KT #104, of the 1. Kompanie, s.SS.PzAbt 501, in the Ardennes. In all "actual" photos I have seen I cannot make out ANY markings, neither national crosses OR numbers, so how a tank was "identified" beats me
Maybe they worked on the HEYU identification principle....One tank commander would yell at another "Hey you! What tank is that you're in?"
After all the research and searching I did trying to find an accurate tank to emulate, and it was not done right! <sigh> Well, I am going to leave it the way it is (except for adding the top turret star)- it is too late to try and repaint the lettering in yellow without white showing and then weathering the letters with dirt and such. I think I'll redo the whole tank one day, and then I'll do it as asn army tank with white lettering and all that. And I'll probably go with a Korean War M26 variant- there are far more pics to go by.
If you need some assistance with painting your Pershing, Killick, let me know. After all we are both about to suffer thru another Winnipeg winter.