Looking for a tank, as shown below, or for bitumen spraying to mount on a 5-ton M809. I think RM used to make one and you may just have one in your stash.
If so, I’d love to hear from you.
Denimo
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H.P.
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That’s just the sort of thing I’m looking for HP. Thanks for the pic.
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You could probably use the tank from an M978 HEMTT tanker. You can buy the tank sprue from Italeri via their website.
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Great idea Gino. I’ll check it out.
Thanks.
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Using your photo to compare to:
And using cross section drawings of the HEMTT tank, I think you’ll see the HEMTT tank is too flat on the top and bottom. You may try this method, which is similar to how I do a lot of scratch building, and which I’ll show later tonight when I get home from class:
- Make a photocopy of your photo
- Enlarge/reduce it until the width of the wheel base exactly matches one of your kits
- Cut out the shape of the end of the tank
- Since the end of the tank appears to be just a tad closer to you (very scientific term here) you may need to adjust the size slightly. Possible find another photo, or better yet, dimensional data on the tank
- Using spray mount, stick your cut out tank end on a piece of .060 cardstock, then cut the shape out of the plastic
- Using that piece, make three more
- to insure they are identical, glue them together with PVA, then sand as a unit.
- Separate your profiles by soaking them in water
- Now using spacing blocks (wood works well) and space out your four profile pieces
- Wrap with .010 cardstock
Using this method you’ll get precisely what you want, and I’m sure if you search you’ll find a nice line drawing you can scale up instead of uning that photo. That’ll give you not only the exact shape but size of the tank as well.
In the end you’ll have something more accurate, probably less the the cost of shipping alone for some cardstock, and the satisfaction of having done it yourself.
There’s actually an easier and quicker method than the above one, but you have to have access to good hardwood and an 8 inch belt sander.
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Cut two of your properly sized shapes for the tank ends (see above)
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Put horizontal and vertical index marks on them in the center
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Glue these to and appropriate length piece of hardwood that you have insured has at least one perfectly square corner - at the marks to position the ends in that square corner
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Put on your eye pro and turn on your belt sander
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Carefully push your piece squarely into the belt sander, continuously monitoring your progress on both ends - you want to sand until the belt just touches your paper cutouts.
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when you’ve achieved the shape you want, you’re done. Seal the wood, attach whatever needs attaching. Paint.
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Very interesting suggestion there 18Bravo. Well beyond my skills and equipment resources though.
But, I have a very practical and skilled buddy locally
so we’ll see in time.
Thanks for the heads up about the M978 tank - good save!
Denimo
I’ll bet your buddy would do it for a dozen oat sodas.
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What I’d also like to see is 14.00 x 20 military lug tires on old school five slot wheels.
Don’t know those, be keen to see a pic.
One of my current needs is a set of 12.00-20 tires, eleven of them After my next build I’m tackling an M246 tractor/wrecker and the majority of those fielded used the bigger tire. The Hobby Link conversion set doesn’t include them, but I’ve got a Cultus guy who plans to do them for me
Still running duallies on it? MY 14.00 x 20s would be for singles.
Yes indeed. Not like on the later M925, super singles?
Non directional?
I’ll have a look tomorrow.
