Stridswagn 103 S-Tank without main gun

[Gingie]

Maybe a little fennel mast mounted sight or one stolen from here:

[Story]

Why not either a

1) drone control station

or

2) drone jamming station

See also https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/07/28/new-israeli-tank-features-xbox-controllers-ai-honed-by-starcraft-ii-doom/

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Maybe a little fennel mast mounted sight or one stolen from here:

Why not either a

1) drone control station

or

2) drone jamming station

See also https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/07/28/new-israeli-tank-features-xbox-controllers-ai-honed-by-starcraft-ii-doom/

No!  Mission creep is a cancer! 

[Kerick]

A great place to find homes for orphan parts!

[apophenia]

Maybe a little fennel mast mounted sight or one stolen from here:

Hmmm. One of those looks familiar 

[Claymore]

No!  Mission creep is a cancer! 

It surely is! Selection and maintenance of the aim is fundamental to success. 

[Story]

Maybe a little fennel mast mounted sight or one stolen from here:

Why not either a

1) drone control station

or

2) drone jamming station

See also https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/07/28/new-israeli-tank-features-xbox-controllers-ai-honed-by-starcraft-ii-doom/

No!  Mission creep is a cancer! 

I meant as it's primary mission. Carry on, tho.

[Kerick]

In today’s world a scouting vehicle with a mast sight would be very logical. The TOW humvees spent most of their time in overwatch positions.

[GTX_Admin]

Some repeat/overlap of ideas from this thread

[Kerick]

I now have a plan for my M41 Walker Bulldog assault gun. Instead of the StuG 3 casement I was thinking of I’ll use a Strv 103 front end with the 105 gun.

[Frank3k]

You'll probably still need a casemate for the gun - the M41 is just under 6m long and the S-103 is 9 meters.




The gun on an M41 would have its barrel hanging out in a different zip code.

[Story]

If they can wrap a plane around a 30mm Gatling then they can wrap a tank around a cannon. 

Or why not fit the S-tank with a GAU-8/A and use the weapon's exhaust gasses to power a blower on the engine, Mad Max style? 

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Not much accomplished this past weekend on the S-Wagn.  I finished sanding the rear hull plate to remove all remaining surface features and discovered that by doing so that I managed to reduce the overall dimensions by about one millimeter which in turn has created a very tiny gap along the top edge of the rear hull.  I should be able to obscure this gap eventually with something but it currently sticks out like the proverbial "sore thumb" to remind me of how easy it can be to really cock things up. 

The shiny spot at the bottom is where the liquid cement bled through and caught my thumb while I was attaching the part.  Fortunately no finger print, just the liquid cement scar to clean up later. 

[Jeffry Fontaine]

One more WIP image to add this morning.

I had been trying to find something suitable to place over the hole for the main gun barrel.  My searches up to now for the ideal covering for that bothersome hole had not been successful.  That all changed this morning while I was digging through my stash of miscellaneous bits and pieces.  Years ago while stationed in Germany I had purchased an HO scale ROCO Mini-Tanks tread way bridge kit that included pontoons and the roadway sections.  A neat little kit but definitely not in my area of interest aside from being a source of parts.  I gave the pontoon parts away years ago and kept the tread way parts.  Until this morning the parts had no purpose.  I did a quick fit check and found the tread way parts to be ideal in width and long enough to not be in the way at either end.  I just finished cementing the piece in place and I am happy with how it looks with the tread pattern providing a surface feature over that area of the hull. 

[Old Wombat]

Certainly looks better than plain ol' styrene sheet!

[Ramba]

The cover looks great.

[Frank3k]

That cover does look good! Like it was intended to be there by design.

For the gap, you could glue a strip of styrene at the bottom. Or an Evergreen (or equivalent) L channel to make it easier to cover the gap.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

The "L" Channel suggestion would be ideal if I had some of that particular material on hand.  Will have to see if I can craft something to fill the open spaces at the top and bottom for continuity purposes.  I was just happy to have found the bridge part to fill the majority of the space.  If I had found that earlier I would have gone with it first instead of slapping a piece of scrap plastic on the underside and filling the cavity with Squadron green putty brown goo that did work but was rather unsightly when cured. 

Also it was rather early this morning when I was working on the S-Wagn.  I could not sleep, was tossing and turning for several hours and opted to get up instead of just laying in bed being miserable, that was around 0130 my time here.  So this was a long day.  I only just crashed 1000 and actually got about three hours sleep so back up at 1330 and now trying to rehydrate.  A great way to start the week off.  Not!   

[raafif]

I had been trying to find something suitable to place over the hole for the main gun barrel.  Years ago while stationed in Germany I had purchased an HO scale ROCO Mini-Tanks tread way bridge kit that included pontoons and the roadway sections

Used these & other HO/OO railway bits too

[apophenia]

Sleepless nights suck, Jeff!  But ... you did get a really nice gap-solution out of the deal 

The "L" Channel suggestion would be ideal if I had some of that particular material on hand.  Will have to see if I can craft something to fill the open spaces at the top and bottom for continuity purposes...

Could scrap styrene be shaped to resemble those shot-deflecting ridges to either side? I'm thinking those could cover the gaps while seeming to have some function.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Not having any of the Evergreen structural plastic available, I used some of the regular Evergreen plastic strips at the top and bottom as suggested.  While not as sharp looking as I would prefer, it will pass the casual first look test. 

[Buzzbomb]

Nothing to see here  That worked out great

[Kerick]

If anyone asks it’s the skid plate for traction when the troop climb up the vehicle from the front.

[Gingie]

No!  Mission creep is a cancer! 

"Mission creep! Mission creep! Mission Creep!!"

[Jeffry Fontaine]

If anyone asks it’s the skid plate for traction when the troop climb up the vehicle from the front.

Most definitely!