Well the TVA was looking at different timelines. Seems that like they were trying to do what Brian is doing with a different timeline. A TV-8 seems pretty on the nose for that. I saw but probably like you didn’t give it a second thought.
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LOL imagine using the TVA to get into whole new time lines where things like the TV 8 were the MBT of the time …
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The premise of Loki, the TV Series, is that there are many universes with their own timelines and events happen in one that don’t happen in others. Sometimes something happens in a time line that shouldn’t have occurred (usually because someone does something they shouldn’t have).
There is an organisation that is tasked with policing the timelines, and they will ‘prune’ the anomaly from the timeline to put it back on course - sometimes pruning th person too. Matter can’t be destroyed, and it can’t be allowed to continue corrupting time, so it is transferred to ‘The Void at the end of time’'- “Where every instance of existence collides at the same point and simply stops”
What is depicted in the pictures is a TV-8 that was ‘built’, but shouldn’t have been, so it has been sent to ‘The Void’.
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By God Peter, that sounds like a challenge to anyone’s attention span - certainly mine! A far cry form the Loki I knew when studying Norse mythology as a kid.
I just thought the pics of the TV-8 almost added a certain authenticity to mine as it were - I know that sound a bit moronic - and is - but it was just nice to see someone else’s efforts.
Thanks for the explanation - I might need a lie down(!)
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I meant to acknowledge that I noticed that there was evidence of my installation of the searchlight, which I forgot to remove - careless puttying/glue etc; I made a note to sand them down but forget.
I can’t be arsed to repaint so I’ll have to go for obscuration - probably greenery as though something had caught in the searchlight whilst the turret was traversing in wooded territory perhaps. Very galling but I obviously got side-tracked somewhere along the line.
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Hi Boots
Just wondering about the positioning of the pioneer rack, seems way too high up to access - without a ladder?
Might be better placed on the hull?
Mal
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If it were on the chassis component of the vehicle - which is actually where the designer put it - it would get so covered in filth I feel it would be unusable; no track-guards on this beast. I re-positioned it after considerable thought - the crew - all within the turret can access it easily enough. To then disembark - with whatever tool they required - they would simply lower themselves to the ground using the handhold/steps incorporated into the side of the turret (which are not readily identifiable I admit, in these two pics).
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True but if they all got down, then realised they’d forgotten something…
Maybe mount under the bustle?
Another thought - a loop of rope hanging down from those handholds to help surmount the beast?
Mal
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Malcolm, I think you might be overthinking this as much as I did earlier (scroll back a bit)! I certainly got wrapped around the axle a fair bit, that’s for sure.
If it’s underneath the bustle, it is still relatively inaccessible, also the water-jet is in the way. Plus, with no track-guards, the underneath of the turret is still going to get clagged up with mud and dirt.
I am building this as though it were a prototype (the real thing as it were, never got beyond a wooden mock-up) that has been through its paces - with perhaps a half-dozen others - for, say, a couple of years stateside, with some mods and improvements (clearly no track-guards!), and shipped to Europe for further testing and deployment on an exercise. I hope this all sounds sort of logical(!)
Anyway, that’s where I am.
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I’d expect one guy to dismount, and another to toss him the relevant tool from the rack! (Loader on the ground getting muddy, TC clean on turret top dropping the tool?..) Getting stuff back up is more tricky, but do-able.
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If Soldier A has left a tool behind that he needs, then Soldier B, his comrade-in-arms, will remind him of the fact that he is a somewhat lesser mortal; Soldier A, suitably re-motivated, will then re- ascend the tank, identify the tool he errantly left behind, and subsequently descend from the tank with said tool, ready to undertake whatever task he has been given.
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Now, it would be funny to name the tank “Loki”?..
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Now that is inspirational: chalked say, on the turret? Hmmm. Now you’ve got me thinking!
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Random idea:
Hide the tools in a closed box mounted under the rear turret overhang?
In front of the waterjet inlet. It’s easier to wash off the chemical warfare stuff
or radioactive fallout from a closed box than from a tool rack with clasps et.c.
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Oh yeah! Chalked on the side of the turret… That would be cool. 
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If one is reduced to undertaking decontamination procedures, then worrying about an open box of tools versus a closed box of tools, I feel, is academic. The bleach slurry will be applied generously in any case, everywhere, and any tools open to the elements will receive more than a passing splash, and emerge crystal-clean! Yeah, right.
As an after-note, on one exercise when we had to practice same, the bleach slurry practically destroyed the paintwork, and dissolved fabric ie straps. I mean, talk about the cure being worse than the disease…!
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