Claymore's AH AFVs: Take 2

[Claymore]

Very nice 

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   

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

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! 

[Claymore]

Oh very nice ! A 30's purposeful Box 

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

Thanks BT, much appreciated. 

[Claymore]

Nice mix of bits   (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.

[Claymore]

Belgian T38 'Ambiorix' Update:

...and once again, the simple application of a coat of primer makes all the difference and, hopefully, shows off the T38 Ambiorix (as it is now officially called) as a unified vehicle for the first time.

To mark this auspicious occasion and to give a little bit in the way of scale perspective, I hand over to The Stig from Top Gear and his little furry companion who some say is Verne Troyer's werewolf doppelganger or that his breath is so fetid that it can melt plastic... All we know is, he's called The Stiglet!



T38 Ambiorix (47mm Model 1931 L/33.6):








T38 bis Ambiorix (47mm Model 1931 L/42):

[apophenia]

That looks gorgeous under a coat of primer 

Can't smell The Stiglet's breath from here but he looks more like he's considering a wee on those roadwheels 

Hope that the knee gremlins are still on vacation 

[Jeffry Fontaine]

The tank looks huge without the Stig figure standing next to it.  With the Stig it looks so tiny. 

[Claymore]

That looks gorgeous under a coat of primer 

Can't smell The Stiglet's breath from here but he looks more like he's considering a wee on those roadwheels 

Hope that the knee gremlins are still on vacation 

Thanks mate.  Yup, as they say, ‘as guilty as a puppy sat next to a pile of poo!’

Knee mending nicely, thanks! 

The tank looks huge without the Stig figure standing next to it.  With the Stig it looks so tiny.

Yup, line the Somua S35 it resembles, the T38 is not a large vehicle. 

[Old Wombat]

She looks fabulous under primer! 

The hull form is hitting me with distinct M4 Sherman vibes, too. 

The Stig & Stiglet* really do add a sense of proportion, one of the reasons I always try to find a way to fit at least one crewman to my builds. 

Good name, too, btw. 







[*: From the Tamiya "Modern U.S. Military Equipment Set" - I have quite a few of those little doggies floating around the place.]

[Claymore]

Thanks mate! 

[Frank3k]

This looks like the French answer to the Sherman. Great build so far (as usual)

[Claymore]

This looks like the French answer to the Sherman. Great build so far (as usual)

…but quite a bit smaller. 

Many thanks my friend!