Yes, I saw those too on Amazon and eBay when trying to find prices for the set yesterday.
You could build a diorama of a Sherman wading through a river?
The M577 still sits somewhere in the cupboard in my hobby room.
The thought occurred to me because I did this once with an M577 which I’d bought for the lower hull and suspension, on which I built another M113 derivative entirely. Well, that is to say: I built and painted the vehicle’s upper parts, but never did get round to building the diorama base it was supposed to go on
The mind is willing but the body is weak 
I have many on the shelf of shame.
It would be rather a waste, IMHO, to put so much effort into adding fine details to the kit and then putting six-spoke wheels on it when the real ones had five:
On the positive side, plenty of Sherman kits come with two full sets of roadwheels (or even more), so you can probably get them off someone who doesn’t need the spoked ones and simply put them in place of those you have now.
I cut plastic parts from the sprue with cutters or sometimes a knife, except if they look (or turn out to be
) very fragile, in which case I’ll use a saw.As long as they’re not glued to the model yet it shouldn’t be too difficult a job, I’d think.
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