Hi,
I;ve started work on trying to build a 1/35 scale model of a "what if" idea that I had. Right now I'm still playing around with some ideas, but the image below shows kind of what I am thinking.
The thought is to take a commercially available turret and main gun and put it onto a tracked vehicle hull that has some degree of amphibious capability.
Right now I am looking at usinga 3D model that I downloaded off the internet of something called a Cockerill 3105 turret. Although the Cockerill 3105 turret is desined for weapons up to 105mm, from some of the stuff that I have read on the internet it can also accomodate a 90mm gun. As such, I am thinking of fitting with a rifled Cockerill 90mm Mk 8 gun which, as I understand it, can fire a range of ammunition including an Armor Piercing, Fin stabilized, Discarding Sabot round, a High Explosive Plastic round, a smoke round, and a barrel launched anti-tank missile called the "Falarick".
Right now I am using the current 3D turret model as a place holder, and I hope to use it and other info off the internet to put together something that I might be able to 3D print at a 1/35 scale for my model.
Later I want to look at adding propellers or waterjets on the back end of the vehicle and some sort of ramp forward.
Regards
Pat
