M1A1HA, 9/18/23 update. Delay of Game, two week penalty!

[CODY614]

Barry you are welcome...But the the credit needs to go to you. I'm getting ideas from you like nobody's business...Mine will use alot of your techniques for the stiffening of the lower hull. Keep going!

[BarryC]

Barry you are welcome...But the the credit needs to go to you. I'm getting ideas from you like nobody's business...Mine will use alot of your techniques for the stiffening of the lower hull. Keep going!

Cody,

Looking at the photos you posted; on the Tamiya kit does the armor span the full width of the main hull; it looks like it does. As you can see in the shots I posted of the RFM kit their rendering does not except where it attaches at the front. I have tried to determine from your prototype photo looking underneath and forward but I can not tell if it does or not.

I have my framing structured to allow for a finish piece to run the length front to back that will bring it flush with the hull sides but not sure now; any thoughts?

Thanks,
Barry

[CODY614]

Barry...
I think this will help?
1/35th scale...

[BarryC]

Finally something that is starting to look like the Belly Armor. Had a little trouble in I forgot my geometry when laying out and cutting the two forward pieces. The cuts needed to follow the "red" line not the "black" as noted on the photo.

Here are couple of shots showing the progress today.





The plan is to get the right side trimmed in tomorrow.

Thanks for looking,
Barry

[BarryC]

Belly Armor, update 4-10-16

As planned….for a change, I did get the main section of the Belly Armor trimmer and shaped. I also drilled the new mount screw locations through the lead weight stack-up and the false floor. With the addition of the lock washer the .5” screw length worked out great without having to shorten the length.

I began work on the forward sloped piece getting as far as the center and outboard sloped pieces and the forward end cap. Next comes the interior longitudinal and lateral/horizontal blocking. I plan at least two additional longitudinal pieces per side, either side of center and an upper and lower lateral/horizontal pieces then the decking. There will be two mounting screws through the lower lateral/horizontal one either side.



I cut the forward pieces of the main decking short by .020” to allow for the decking on the forward piece to overlap onto the main section at the forward most “rafter”.



TAFN,
Barry

[BarryC]

Barry...
I think this will help?
1/35th scale...

Cody, here is the data on the RFM kit.

Barry

[CODY614]

Barry...
I went digging into some other pic's I had found. Here are a couple more that kind of show it coming out to the very edge of the hull.

[BarryC]

Barry...
I went digging into some other pic's I had found. Here are a couple more that kind of show it coming out to the very edge of the hull.

Great pics Cody!

Looks like the RFM kit is inaccurate with respect to the Belly Armor width, now I know how to proceed. In the second photo it appears that there is an outer "rail" that attaches to the armor then "lugs" on the rail attach to the hull side.

I have to ask; where are you getting these photos, are they from an available publication?

Thanks!
Barry

[CODY614]

http://www.primeportal.net/tanks/jeff_d ... hp?Page=22

Don't get lost...Lot's of stuff there...

[BarryC]

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