Author Topic: Claymore's AH AFVs: Take 2  (Read 668484 times)

Offline Claymore

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Re: Claymore's AH AFVs: Take 2
« Reply #1125 on: Yesterday at 05:53:35 AM »
Very nice  :smiley:

Your enlarged turret is a vast improvement on the S35's APX 1 CE. But the new turret really does keep the feel of the original!

I'm curious ... what was the source of the suspension, sprockets, etc.? (The roadwheels remind me of a PzKw IV.)

Good to see that you've gone with a ground version of the Mitrailleuse d'Avion Browning. On the original artwork, the AI seems to have conflated that 13.2 FN with the box-magazined Hotchkiss M1929   ;D

Hopefully, all of the detail you are including will distract those knee gremlins  :smiley:

Thanks mate.

The wheels the AI selected look like they were selected from a Panzer III but when I scaled the whole thing, they were too big.  However, a spare set I had from a Panzer IV were perfect as were the tracks.  The suspension arms and the torsion bar housings are home grown, the drive sprockets were from the spares box - a Leopard I I think - but very heavily rebuilt, and the idlers are from a Panther.

You’re right the AI was obviously having machine gun envy issues when it came up with that magazine fed monstrosity so I wisely decided to keep it tea and go with a standard HMG.

Knee gremlins currently on vacation!  :smiley:
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Offline Claymore

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Re: Claymore's AH AFVs: Take 2
« Reply #1126 on: Yesterday at 05:54:34 AM »
Oh very nice ! A 30's purposeful Box  :smiley:

Looking great already and certainly the mix of techniques is working very well

Thanks BT, much appreciated.  :smiley:
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Offline raafif

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Re: Claymore's AH AFVs: Take 2
« Reply #1127 on: Yesterday at 07:15:14 AM »
Nice mix of bits :smiley:  (idler is Pz-IV with KingTiger hub ?)
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Offline Claymore

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Re: Claymore's AH AFVs: Take 2
« Reply #1128 on: Yesterday at 08:47:33 AM »
Nice mix of bits :smiley:  (idler is Pz-IV with KingTiger hub ?)

Thanks mate.  The idlers came from the spares box as a single item - pretty sure they used to belong to a Panther.
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