PT-76

[carlos marighela]

By the Americans? Only a handful of occasions, most notably the successful attack  on the Lang Vei Special Forces camp and the less successful one at Ben Het. The latter saw the only recorded tank v tank combat by the Americans. An M-48 destroyed one in the night action.

A number of other occasions where they were sighted and sometimes engaged by air assets.

Of course, they saw quite a lot of action against the ARVN in Cambodia, then during the 1972 Easter Offensive and again in 1975.

[Rich H]

Thanks Carlos

Things still to do:
Headlamps
Some bolts/rivets along the track guards
Snorkel
clips/blocks on the hull (mostly becaue they break up the big empty spaces!)
Check the tracks details
Spare track links

Thats it I think...

For the future:
BTR-50 version

[carlos marighela]

A BTR-50? Now we talking!

[Rich H]

It's the same hull with an roof extension. 
Shouldn't be too hard...  But not yet, I've got other (Small but fiddly) things to do first. 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Cool.

[tomrommel1]

By the Americans? Only a handful of occasions, most notably the successful attack  on the Lang Vei Special Forces camp and the less successful one at Ben Het. The latter saw the only recorded tank v tank combat by the Americans. An M-48 destroyed one in the night action.

A number of other occasions where they were sighted and sometimes engaged by air assets.

Thanks

Of course, they saw quite a lot of action against the ARVN in Cambodia, then during the 1972 Easter Offensive and again in 1975.

No clue... apparently enough to warrant making them

OK have to do some reading then.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

OK have to do some reading then.

At SELWG I found a copy of the Osprey Vanguard (and I mean Vanguard not NVG) 42 Armour of the Vietnam War which has a small section on NVA armour.

Intrigue, be advised: one of our generators just blew down the bunker door!

[Rich H]

Just the track profiles to check and spare links to make (cut/paste!) now!

Pics later.

Next project starting very soon...

[Rich H]

Done!  Print tomorrow hopefully...

[Marine0846]

Looks great.
Hope the print turns out.
Can't wait to purchase a few.

[Rich H]

Print failed and didn't have time yesterday to clean it out - I'll try again this afternoon.

[Rich H]

OK now got a turret, both guns a hatch and one track printed out.  The other track annoyingly failed.

Hull will be in one piece and will totally fill the build plate... not 100% sur it'll work as is, might need the mudguards cutting off and adding to the tracks to reduce the width.

[Rich H]

Chassis was stil printing when I left for work this morning... looked OK

[Rich H]

very full bed!





Even managed to print the forgotten centurion exhausts under it!

[carlos marighela]

Always fascinating to see the gubbins of the manufacturing end of things. Bit like looking under the hood of a modern car. You might have a vague grasp of how it works in an abstract and conceptual sense but no real idea of how it actually does work but it’s still satisfying to look under the bonnet. The blue bits in your otherwise shiny, shiny, black resin. Are those just reflections from the bed?

Anyway it looks pretty bloody good. I’m always impressed with the way you manage to print stuff with a minimum of little ridges.