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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: Fitz on October 28, 2017, 05:03:27 AM

Title: Medium C "Hornet" (15mm)
Post by: Fitz on October 28, 2017, 05:03:27 AM

This is my 3d-printed 15mm (1:100 scale) model of the Medium C Hornet of 1919.

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-19kD0_PntbQ/WfP_cO47lUI/AAAAAAAAJKo/KKk_8RchKYkqTO-SbtOr1PDnRFOxM9liwCLcBGAs/s1600/20171028MediumCHornet.jpg)

It was a WW1 design, but didn't make it into service before the Armistice on November 11, 1918. It was intended as the replacement for the Medium A Whippet, a difficult and extremely uncomfortable vehicle to drive, with many flaws.

This model has been printed in WSF nylon, and is available for sale at http://shpws.me/OHlc (http://shpws.me/OHlc)

Title: Re: Medium C "Hornet" (15mm)
Post by: von Lucky on October 28, 2017, 06:40:53 AM

Lovely stuff.

I also like that your designs educate me in tank design, and this beauty did see some "action":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Mark_C#Operational_history

Title: Re: Medium C "Hornet" (15mm)
Post by: Fitz on October 28, 2017, 10:44:17 AM

I'd quite like to do a "male" version, which was supposed to mount a six-pounder in the hull front. However, I can't find any reliable information on how that was configured, so I'd pretty much have to make it up.

Title: Re: Medium C "Hornet" (15mm)
Post by: armchairgeneral on October 28, 2017, 01:47:27 PM

Very nice model.

The 6pdr version was never built. Copplestone Castings do it in 28mm.

http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/prod.php?prod=387