Author Topic: WIP pictures of WW1ish tank (Read 19288 times)

Zafarelli · « **Reply #15 on:** March 08, 2007, 08:45:40 AM »

I have added the second sponson and the turret:

A Renegade WW1 Highlander is shown for scale.

Westfalia Chris · « **Reply #16 on:** March 08, 2007, 09:14:35 AM »

May I object? I´m afraid that the turret gun is a bit too longish. May I suggest that you use a shorter "howitzer" or "mountain-gun" style cannon for the turret, and use the sixpounder OQF for the sponsons?

Or better yet, leave the gun separate and supply a "standard" one, leaving people the choice of adding their favourite gun themselves!

Other than that, excellent work. Those rivets put me in awe.

Zafarelli · « **Reply #17 on:** March 08, 2007, 09:28:31 AM »

The gun shown is two polystyrene pipes, the smaller one (3 mm diameter) inserted into the larger, 4 mm one. I experimented with various gun versions last night, this was the last one I tried. Of course you can take the 4 mm front part off

Operator5 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 08, 2007, 11:14:01 AM »

This is just awesome! I love watching this whole piece come together. So, from now on, all your projects are going to have to be cataloged with us this way.

God may demand Lead, but he's also pretty keen on the plastics as well. :

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Zafarelli · « **Reply #19 on:** March 09, 2007, 01:32:26 PM »

I did some more work on the sponsons, and started to add the armor plates to the hull. There are still a few hundred rivets to add, not to mention the tracks and all the detail work, but I am really happy with the progress so far.

I'll display the thing at Driscoles' party tomorrow, I hope to have the sponsons and sponson guns ready by then. But I am used to long nights by now :

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And I replaced the turret gun with a smaller piece of pipe, especially for Westfalia Chris :wink:

PeteMurray · « **Reply #20 on:** March 09, 2007, 01:45:44 PM »

The smaller gun barrel looks better.

So! When will Pardulon be selling these?

Plus I'm very jealous you have your own CNC machine!

dominic · « **Reply #21 on:** March 09, 2007, 01:49:27 PM »

Nice! Can't wait to see the production model!

Zafarelli · « **Reply #22 on:** March 09, 2007, 01:50:24 PM »

Pete, I hope to get it ready in time for Salute, though at the moment I am quite confident.

Unfortunately, it is not my own machine, it belongs to a co-worker of my wife. At their office Christmas Party last year, we came to talk about what can be done with it, and this is our first try.

Mike D. Mc Brice · « **Reply #23 on:** March 09, 2007, 02:06:39 PM »

Looking forward to see how the tracks will be done.
I would not mind if the gun would be even shorter like a howitzer but that's just me. Either way looks good.

Or, even better, make 2 options for the barrel if that's possible.

dominic · « **Reply #24 on:** March 09, 2007, 02:24:45 PM »

Make a German tank commander like the one in Indiana Jones!

Grimm · « **Reply #25 on:** March 09, 2007, 04:32:14 PM »

Please don´t show me these or I will buy it !!!!!!

Wish I have my own CNC :wink:

Zafarelli · « **Reply #26 on:** March 09, 2007, 05:32:36 PM »

Mike, since the barrels of the early tanks were pretty featureless (no fancy muzzle brakes or things), I am thinking about adding various pieces of polystyrene pipe instead of casting the barrel in resin. This gives a bit more variety than one resin cast barrel, which would look the same, anyway.

Dominic, the tanker in the picture is an old GW model. Unfortunately, I can't sculpt miniatures, so the commander will have to wait. If there are any bored sculptors here, though, I am open to suggestions.

Grimm, since you ask so politely, I will gladly show it to you tomorrow. Twice, if you want :mrgreen:

Zafarelli · « **Reply #27 on:** March 11, 2007, 12:39:47 PM »

The basic shape of the track links is done:

The pieces of plastic rod on the first four links are not glued down, I just toyed around with different designs for the detail. I am not really convinced, though. Yesterday at DoOrDice, someone suggested two small pieces of T-profiles arranged in V shape on each track link. This sounds quite nice, though it will probably turn out to be my own private purgatory to arrange 240 pieces of plastic in exactly the same angle on 120 individual track links.

So, if anyone has ideas for a good-looking, yet easy to do solution, I am open for suggestions.

Edit: another picture, this time I cut the rods from the above picture in half and arranged them in said V shape.

What do you think?

matakishi · « **Reply #28 on:** March 11, 2007, 02:06:51 PM »

I like the v shapes best.

Westfalia Chris · « **Reply #29 on:** March 11, 2007, 02:46:10 PM »

That´s rather modernistic, AFAIK... IIRC, the first tank with such tracks was the Sherman in 1941/42. Don´t want to sound mean, but rivets or flat surfaces would be the best choice, if looking a bit dull - then again, adding 400+ rivets to the tracks! And you thought the hull has bad!

Or, as I suggested earlier, make a number of master tracklinks, mould these to the highest quality, and then cast the required number of tracklinks.

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