If it was a “real” combat decontamination, I fear it would be mere busy-work while Fate took its course…
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Yeah, but look what it sparked…
The loop of rope - make it a toggle rope
Mal
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Indeed.
But I was thinking about engineers in a design office somewhere having bright ideas that turn out to be bad ideas or just not worth the effort (bang for buck) once they get tested by real troops.
Few engineers/designers have actual user experience in the field they are “engineering” in.
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The Medium Mk A Whippet was built without track covers, but even with only two or three years of experience with tanks - by anyone - they learned.
I can’t imagine that this, forty years later, would make it into metal without them.
KL
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Well,
it didn’t.
On the other hand, IF it had made it into metal it would be a fair assumption that
there would have been track covers after some re-learned experience.
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That’s exactly what I meant. I can’t imagine that this “artist’s conception” would’ve ever gotten to the point of being realized as a physical object, even as a mock-up, without them. It would not take field trials to reveal their necessity.
The Soviet Obj 279 did not have track guards per se either, but the hull was much closer to the tracks and except for the suspension set-up it was pretty much a conventional arrangement.
KL
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Sometimes my modelling days go like this:
As it happens, this is taken from my modelling mate Pete Smith’s blog; today we drew stumps from the modelling benches and decided to visit the Tank Museum at Bovington. After around an hour’s drive in torrential rain, we had a very enjoyable couple of hours. The link to his blog is here for those interested enough (or bored); the only new exhibit we identified was a Type 59. Note that Pete is in the middle of a build of a ISU-152:
Needless to say, looking at tanks all morning is thirsty work, so on the way back we stopped at Pimperne:
Suitably refreshed, back to the TV-8.
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Nice!
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Nice, but really odd look to it - as expected.
What I didn’t expect is the geometric pattern revealed in the first 2 pics. Would that be due to the resin used or replicating something similar to the dimples found on the M41 turret, due to the armour rolling process?
Mal
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Thanks
Hadn’t seen that
Mal
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I am of course, guilty of double-tapping but it occurred to me that not all AFV fans would necessarily visit a Campaign thread, hence my doubling up.
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That looks great.
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Thanks Ralph; just awaiting some extra markings now, then hopefully I can get it wrapped up.
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Before you seal everything, have you might consider replacing the registration number with one that would be appropriate for a tank, such as 30190264. (This is well past the last “real” tank number and would be appropriate for the 1960 +/- era.)
KL
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Thanks Kurt; I was always going to have to use what I could from the spares box; the original I tried to apply was from an M109 kit, but disintegrated, and then I found the ones in place from an old M113 kit. I was after an effect, and arguably have one, albeit inaccurate. I’m sure that makes me a bad modeller, but thanks for the sentiment and help.
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Progress of sorts; the decals I’d ordered for the yellow numbers turned up but were very difficult to apply - extremely thin and fragile. There might have to be a bit more weathering on this model than I’d planned:
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Looking really good. Nice job so far.
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with the gloss and the shine on it you can see the rings from the 3D priniting it gives the lkook that it was carved out of a piece of wood very interesting build
a conversation piece
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