cruiser tanks you got to love them

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cruiser tanks you got to love them

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Hi there

As I said before I real like British tanks.
This also means im almost not allowed to build german tanks ;)

Because ill probably be building more than one I just decided to make one topic for them all.

The first two will be a cromwell with the f type hull(for a customer) and the tank I like the most the A30 challenger

So lets start with the Challenger.

First some pictures of the real one.
This is to one ill be building.
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Lucky for me I live in Holland and we have the only remaining complete one @)

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The early muzzle break ill be copping
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They even allowed me to climb on top of it to make some pictures @)
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Now lets start on the build.
I first made all the drawings for the hull in Inventor to see if it would work and be able to make more than one tank.
After that I started cutting the parts.

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slowly building up the hull

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First try on the turret
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Reprinted the turret.
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First gun assembly.
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The track tensioners of the panther fit perfect between the two hull plates.
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Printed the suspension arms and put some brass bushings in them to make them last longer.
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Road wheels also have bearings.
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Tensioner wheel also printed.
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And a lot of fitting parts and stuff later.
This is how far she is don now.
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The cromwell build is the same in a lot of ways but is always just a bit behind on the Challenger.

The shorter cromwell hull
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Made some normandie calls for both of them.

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One of the 4 turrets I printed for her.
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The final striped down turret im going to be juicing.
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Testing the complete look
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And finaly a side by side picture.
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Hope you can make some sense of it all.

Greetings tim
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Fantastic build Tim, great fabrication and printing. :clap: :clap: :clap:

I'll be following this with great interest! :thumbup:

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Beautiful models.
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Great work Tim :clap: I too love the look of the cruisers, I'm currently building the Cromwell from ludwigs, can't wait to get it running :D shapeways do some really nice detail bits for these tanks which look great and saves a lot of fiddly scratch building :thumbup:

Cheers, Lee.
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Brilliant work, I will follow this with a keen interest! :thumbup:
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Thank you all for the great comments :thumbup:
Model Builder 4 wrote:Great work Tim :clap: I too love the look of the cruisers, I'm currently building the Cromwell from ludwigs, can't wait to get it running :D shapeways do some really nice detail bits for these tanks which look great and saves a lot of fiddly scratch building :thumbup:

Cheers, Lee.


Have you don the suspension jet?


Well I have a little update for all of you.

The inner hull with the suspension mounted.
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The outer hull will just go around it and will keep the suspension in place and also gives me easy axes for maintenances.
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Getting this all working took a few hours but the result is there.
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Family picture.
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Just to bad i didn't have the dozer handy for the picture.

Greetings tim
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Fantastic work! I love how they both look.
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I love these they are just outstanding
Tanks alot.... :wave:
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Hi Tim, I bought the metal suspension arm's from ludwigs along with the springs, I havnt fitted the springs in their final position yet as I want see how the tank sits first with all the electronics and bits inside :thumbup:

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Model Builder 4 wrote:Hi Tim, I bought the metal suspension arm's from ludwigs along with the springs, I havnt fitted the springs in their final position yet as I want see how the tank sits first with all the electronics and bits inside :thumbup:

Cheers, Lee.
I took the design from the standard plastic once and 3d printed them and they work great.
I drill the hole for the mounting the spring 32mm from the bottom of the tank and directly above the axel.

Realising I'm a bit behind on the updates i thought lets give you some more pictures.

I stated by making the exhoust just look a bit more realistic.

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And then to make sure you would not see it :haha:
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Then i thought It might be handy for the crew if the were actually able to see something.
So I started work on the periscopes. with a tiny bit of modifications they look the part.

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I just don't know why they put these on the tank. I know from experience that you really cant see a thing out of them and they are way to complicated.
Also the Russians copied the British design.
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You might have notices that the tank is starting to look more and more steampunk because of all the brass I'm trying to juice.
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Hope they still move when they are done
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The rear of the tank started to look a bit empty so I dit a tiny bit of work on it.
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And a family picture to end this post (still missing one family member but I cant get that one back)
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Greetings Tim
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