Ford-Liberty M1920A1

[moif]

Hello chaps. Due to reality putting all my various projects on hold for a long while, its been quite some time since I had anything to show, but over Christmas I spent some time knocking together a new model of a fictional tankette; I call it the Ford-Liberty M1920A1 and its meant to be secret American evolution of the Ford 3 ton tank for alt-history games. The last two images show the tank finished, next to a previous model.

[moif]

And here are four more images showing the model the day before it was finished. These give a slightly better idea of the hull. The model is 70mm long. 34mm wide and 26mm tall, not including the radio antenae. It took nine days to build, and is made of styrene and milliput.

[commissarmoody]

I am a fan. Is this going to go into production?

[Marine0846]

Like it a lot.
What kind of gun does it have?

[commissarmoody]

Looks like a Browning 30.cal water cooled MG. Could see maybe having a 37mm in its place, or a flame thrower.

[Andym]

WOW! 

I'm sure you get asked this all the time, how do you do your rivets?

[Arlequín]

Another fan here, but how you could you have an interest in the Interwar Era and not like them? Your vehicles always look like they could have existed.

 

[moif]

Thanks guys

commissarmoody.
No its just a model. I've tried to replicate my models using resin but its very expensive since I have to buy all the materials from abroad and so far I've not had the time or the success needed to maintain the project.

Marine0846
As commissarmoody said, its a meant to be a .30 machine gun, just as in the original Ford 3 ton tank. I would like to build a few more of these tankettes so I can have a platoon of them, and I may add a bigger gun to some of the models, possibly even a 20mm autocannon to make a baby tank destroyer like the Poles did with their TKS!

Andym
There are two different types on this model. The big ones are bought on plates (see link below), sliced off with a scalpel and glued on with polystyrene cement. The smaller ones are 0.5mm sytrene rod that I slice like a sausage to make tiny little disks which are then picked up with the tip of my scalpel, gently dipped into a drop of polystyrene cement then placed onto the model. This takes practice and a deal patience since only about a third of the rivets make it. As often as not they drop off the scalpel upon contact with the polystyrene cement.

http://www.meng-model.com/index2ss.php?id=205

[commissarmoody]

Well keep us posted. And keep track of how much the construction cost is. If your feeling up to it after your done making your own. I might like to order some.

[Eric the Shed]

fantastic...I'd buy them

[Vanvlak]

Brilliant - very nice little design 

[Mr.Marx]

commissarmoody.
No its just a model. I've tried to replicate my models using resin but its very expensive since I have to buy all the materials from abroad and so far I've not had the time or the success needed to maintain the project.

How can you not be casting these? They're fantastic!

[Beast of Bukhara]

moif

We here in Bukhara are always looking to buy the latest agricultural
machinery to increase the cotton yield an important part of our economic growth.

We have always been very pleased to receive American products, such ingenuity !

We would be happy to place an order if the opportunity were to given to us. 

YS

Beast of Bukhara

[Chuckaroobob]

It's a thing of beauty!

[moif]

Thanks guys. I'll post some more images soon. I have other models under way also. Just need to find the time to get on with them.