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gaslight searchlight... sounds cool...filigre... i wanted to make these smaller ones a bit more spartan looking.... no posh style and fancy silken things...you recon the front viewpoint should be oak too? hmmm have to see if this still can be done...

That circular drivers view port was quite the artistic thing.

Looking great Vik.

If you are doing a number of these like a production run and the big one is Excalibur, what about giving them all names from Arthurian legend, like Camelot, Galahed, Guinevere, etc. You could use a dragon sword grail or crown as a tank company symbol too...... Sorry i am starting on now.

i like the viewing area immensely, but with it not centred I assume there will be a gunners compartment next door to it?

Ah, he has already been getting suggestions like that Dantay, like Lancelot, Gawain, etc.

dantay... exactly in all concerns! you are stright to the point... i choose the battlegroup to be names the flamberge... a group of at least four (maybe even more) tans that count as Leman russ...each individually named after a certain knight of the round table...the symbol ideas are all cool and i have to see what i can artistically do myself...each one would be a very good fitting one!
also i planned to make a gunners compartment next to the round viewpoint...will have to see how to do that...

thanks shaso^^ i have thought a bit and the thing i lacked doing with excalibur was putting a tad effort into stbility... thus the new tank and others after him will get more and more sturdier! the viewpoint consists of sandwiched cardboardstripes to measure the size of the viewpoint... then those halfdisks to get the form...and ater that then the faceplate and then the viewpoint.... in each step i used quite a lot of PVA that further strenghtened the built! i bet this beast would now survive a full fall from the desk!

todays work went into making cookies^^ and the treadshoes i showed earlier....i have decided to do this tak with the clawtreads and thus i cut more and more out of thick cardboard in the fashion i showed before...then i tried to be really acurate about gluing them in place...the pics you see below will show you that...tho there are some minor glitches due to the strong material i now have to compensate...

if you see the sides of the treads you know what i mean....if you have any ideas how to fix those and make them blend in to a complete structure let me know!

so here are the pics:


complete one...


them beauty shots...







them fugly shots...








thanks for looking in!

vik

Thanks Shaso, I was away for a while so very briefly skimmed the last 5 pages or so.

I do watch your s too, I love the Perun and the new beastie you have going on.

Any plans to create the Potemkin?

LOL! Dantay, i was tempted, and thought the class is Bogatyr for the T-300, maybe the tank itself will have Potemkiin painted on the turret.

Hmm, vik, any way to make those claws "crimped, so that part of the shoes lay "flat" and the claws overlap the flat plates, like the WWI tanks did? (that is some chewy looking card stock there!)

Look close, you will see they have a "lifted section to each shoe allowing that overlap.



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even better shot

i decided to go for very thick cardboard for the shoes...hmmm... i think this is now to late to do...

a potemkin class tank would have to be even bigger than the perun i figure....hell i am already sold on that idea^^ a true landship....like:

just for the lulz^^


well dantay... can happen to overlook.... for my taste some blogs are way to texty^^ mine too^^lol

i saw yesterday the red lion on a coat of a singer from the royal albert hall...a proms.... looked quite good.... but i cant seem to be up to that job i think.... crown and grail tho could be more my cupa tea^^


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one day i have to get me a plastic kit of a mark V....or a tadpole even....dang^^

But the images show how crimping might shift the shoes? I hope it is not impossible. Also, may want to just have a flat surface for the bottoms, this way the eweight will look like it is making the tank sit in the ground, I may take that Akuyku and at least clip off the bottom shoe cleats.

i had thought that too to leave the shoes off on the bottom...for a sunkien in look...
do you have any ideas to crimpen the shoes i already glued and hardned?

That's amazing Vik! I am not building a tank, but you are inspiring me to not be lazy when it comes to mass-producing scratchbuilt parts!

Unfortunately I can't think of a way to save the ones you already glued vik. It's either go with those or re-do them I think.
Shame, as they look excellent otherwise.
If you re-do them, or utilise the same design again I'd suggest the flat piece you glued the shoes to should be recessed slightly, so the 'claws' are visible from the side, but the gaps are hidden.




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Hmm, might it be possible to remove the whole track section and trim a mm or two off the edge so you could recess it?

Great progress Vik , the new tank treads look really effective , i also like the sunken look, as i can imagine it in the deep mud up to its knees ;-) ( if it had any )

The idea fro the knights of the round table as names is appropriate for these armored knights of the realm. what names have you decided on ?

thanks dstein!

at monkey... i fear i will have to cover the not so nice looking sides of the treads...dunno how but i will make an attempt at that tomorrow...to remove the tracks or the "belt" or any such things would result i think in the destruction... i shoveld my own grave by aplying again and agian PVA on the system.... this makes it one piece now i think....well we live and we learn...

at neil...
for now dantay had suggested the black knight for this tank... i dunno if i choose this yet or another one... i can think of making as much as the prominent ones of the table rounde for the tankslist...so there will be a gawain, lancelot and so on...


i wish the game would allow bases for vehicles.... then this could be properly based and i wouldn´t have to think about that^^

Sounds like a new addition to the wall or armor of the track section to cover the sides of the shoes it is then, (I see more rivets on the way!)

Well, while it is permissible to place a tank on a base of sorts, much times the terrain would likely hamper your movements as the base gets caught on terrain.

Well, while it is permissible to place a tank on a base of sorts, much times the terrain would likely hamper your movements as the base gets caught on terrain.

yup your right, but even cause your right doe´sn´t mean i can be wrong^^ and feel bad about it^^

i think widening the outer armor of the tracks is the way to go... IF i am able to get it as thin so that it doesnt get too much covering the treads now this is a whole new thing^^ and this will ultimatly show if rivets are needed...hmmm

Smallish rivets?

I think shaso's thinking of a strip that extends over some of the existing armour, and vik's thinking of adding a thin strip flush with the old armour to extend the current armour just enough to cover the bottom of the shoes?

And I think that's a badly worded sentence.

I was thinking flush with the base plate as well, but maybe a small strip, s few scant millimeters in height to hel Vik's plight.

i think the first version is much more doable than just covering the accusing area....hmmm.... i knew when logging in today for a check a good idea would be there to read and prosper form^^

at shaso... i am already using smallest rivets.... until i am ableto get my paws on a smaller holepunch it is 2mm that is my smallest size...there are of course smaller ones around...but i haven´t got one^^

at monkey

And I think that's a badly worded sentence.

thats understandable to me and thus allowed... also i think my spelling style has much(ly^^) degraded in the last weeks.... like someone is putting a spell on me^^

Ah, the pics didn't let me see just how small the puncher could go. Imagine a one MM punch! that would be smallish!

That would drive me crazy...oh yeah...

i am currently chasing after such a device... found one via ebay.... but i would like to have it in my hand before buying one... i once bought me a holepunch and that was crappy as hell... it bend itself instead of cutting the card.... now that is what i call NOT a bargain^^

today was marked by the packing of some stuff for our starting small trip off to some needed battery recharging.... yes we will be heading a bit into the hills of good old germany with kids and stuff and hopefully will be having a good time...


so not much work done, but this is my attempt to compensate the errors of the sides caused by the shoes of the treads....


used simpel string to cover it up....two rows of that will cover it nicely i think and the end and beginning will get hidden under a treadcover plate...see perfect ending^^ and to hopefully satisfy any contra arguments.... i plan on making these stringcovers to be brassen...see nice idea....non?^^

vik


oh and dstein... sometimes i find riveting with such mall bitz quite relaxing.... i have coined the phrase rivet -zen^^

Rivet-zen! LOL! great bit there Vik! glad to see you have things in hand there, and I also am letting you know of the massive picture dump i planted on my thread for you guys to follow.

seen it already...commented right away^^.... also left a quick note about my trip tomorrow there...

what do you think about the stringcover?

A banding of brass so fits your concepts Vik, absolutely brilliant!
A Capital idea as they would ay in Victorian, (or in your case, Viktorian) times. You also came out with a way to have Leman russes w/o buying the kits!

yep... thats me inventing new ways to have without getting^^

Is awesome still.


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must get going, there is a apoc game to watch with lunch.

good luck to you and






cheers my friends, till fryday (lol)


vik

Have a safe trip Vik!