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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: Rich H on March 10, 2019, 10:19:10 PM
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On behalf of a shadowy and mysterious client.... :o
Will get the later Chevy wheels and mudguards too.
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What it's supposed to look like
(http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/India-Pattern_ACs.jpg)
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Neat.
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Oooh, lovely!
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I’m currently trying to keep the wings looking ‘free’ but making sure they are supported in such a way that they stay on!
I also had to redraw the turret after I discovered my drawing was a bit off.
Hatch is a bit of a complex beast, with a separate base ring, and 2 hatches but it will allow the hatch to be modelled in any position - open/closed or somewhere in between (Seen pics of them slightly open too)
Guns will have 2 options – gun out and gun port closed. (They are handed left and right)
They are on spheres with a peg so it will allow any of the configurations to be used.
The real thing carried 2 guns normally and they could be repositioned in 15 seconds to another gun port.
This model is the M35 with solid tyres; I’ll do the pneumatic tyre version and I’ll also be making the M39 version on a 4x4 Chevy chassis.
Should then be useful in multiple theatres.
Mostly they were used for policing as they were pretty hopeless off road but bullet proof and heavily armed (Twin Vickers will do that)
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That IS a nice - and useful - little beastie. 8)
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Rivets... not too much left to go. More rivets and details still to go.
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Few more details
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I think you're missing two rivets there..
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It's not finished yet lol
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Damn you Rich - now I have to build a 1937 Japanese army just to go with that Crossley! lol
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Rich,
I think you might want to take a second look at windscreen as you've only one angle and its a double step on the one in the photograph.
Mark.
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Like that? : ;D
Some tweaks still to do but mostly there. Printer has been having a mare - several problems and resulted in a lot of fails... think I've got it now.
1/56 and 1/50
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Ooooh. shiny. I really like that. Now, how do I persuade SWMBO that I really do need a 3d printer?
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That'll do donkey, that'll do. ;) lol
Open hatches a design note I'm found of using myself. So no complaints from me.
1/50 definitely the way to go. Much easier maths too ( devide by five and move the decimal point to the left. Job done)
Mark.
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Very handsom.
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Interesting difference in size there Rich - now put some figures next to them and we can see the right scale!
Really nice model BTW
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Will do ;)
Just a 12% increase over the 1/56 but IMHO a much better match for heroic scale figs.
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Cracking job
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That's gorgeous :-* I guess I'm doing inter-war now :)
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Interesting difference in size there Rich - now put some figures next to them and we can see the right scale!
Really nice model BTW
Yes!
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As requested :D
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Terrific work 👍
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thanks Rich
Now looking at the piccies and at these
I reckon the 1/56th one is fine
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b2/35/10/b23510dbfd47119f101cf1958f9ed3fc.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/3Lu8Fjg.jpg)
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Not my call ;)
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thanks Rich
Now looking at the piccies and at these
I reckon the 1/56th one is fine
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b2/35/10/b23510dbfd47119f101cf1958f9ed3fc.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/3Lu8Fjg.jpg)
Cool images. I like the 'Chitral' lettering and I have never seen the netting at the base of the gun turret before. One wonders what that bar in the back of the second vehicle is for. For dusting rugs? ;)
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I reckon the 1/56th one is fine
RichHs call or not I agree with that.
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I'll double check the measurements just in case... I'm stuck with whatever scale the drawing claims.
Rug beating fixture mk1a. Fitted to all crossleys since 1919...
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Dunno about extracurricular rug beating or whatever the public schoolboys call it these days ....but seeing this picture I have to have a Crossley (and a Carden Loyd)
(https://preview.redd.it/0rl0rv4c27gz.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=21953fc892216e98770677e2e53f53939d1fb079)
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Those solid steel wheels must have made for a hell of a bumpy ride...
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The later ones are pneumatic
They were notorious for being rubbish offroad and rolling over
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Another vote for the 1:56 version being a better fit in this case.
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Checked the dims and, give or take a couple of mm they are both correct as per the wiki stats in all three axies. (So I didn't screw up this time ;D )
Agree that the 1/56 does look to be a more appropriate scale but the brief was specifically 1/50. I'll check...
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i can always find a good home for the 1/56th one Rich! lol
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I'll be the first to admit 1/50 doesn't work on this vehicle.
As mentioned in Your Independent thread. 28mm is really an aesthetic not a true conversion of a model scale.As you know most found 1/56 didn't sit well with the independent.
You'll find it's going to fluctuate with nearly every vehicle and every. Bare lead pose/ painted and basedfigure/ manufacturer you use in a comparison.
The reality is even the big plastic kit companies play with scale As the crew figures are often on a different scale to the vehicles simply to improve the aesthetics of the kit.
It's one of the reasons ,why I only ever class my vehicles as 28mm.
As I've mentioned before period photographs are not idea for scaling.As the angle and distance of the shot plus the unknown height of the figures ( even if you do know their height people often dip or hunch up to get everyone in the photo.)play tricks with the perspective.
They are however invaluable in showing infield expediency. Such as the true ergonomics of living and fighing in armour.Plus in this case the grenade nets around the turrets.A weak point and a source of paranoia.Also an indicator of the type of tactical assault both feared and expected in theatre.
Must say its still a nice build.
Mark.
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Agreed.
The asthetic is what matters and (In my case at least) my expectation is that tanks are big (even though they are quite small in real life).
Add in the unique wargamers perspective of high angle view and the uniqueness that is 28mm heroic figures then scale models are always going to be a compromise.