Thanks for all the kind words, colleagues! My friend Joe Brown of Starship Modeler asked about he flight capability - I did consider
adding a couple rows of thrusters to the belly, but decided that then I'd have to pose it taking off, and I balked at sculpting the exhaust for a dozen small rocket engines...
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Weaver - the Japanese were intrigued by the Germans' use of PzKw IIIs with the stump 75s as 'escort' tanks for the tigers. The
sponson guns were dismountable, then towed into action by a pair of motorcycle/trailer combinations which exited from the rear of the pontoons, all to provide quick, handy and appallingly vulnerable anti-infantry support for the GohTen.
The filght capacity was considered in the design, as the early version of the 'Zero Cannon' mounted in the drill was simply a
pump for a stream of liquid oxygen, but the engineers came back saying you could have the freeze ray or the flight ( estimated to be a hop of about 200m to an altitude of 15m ) but not both.
