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.
Lucky for me I live in Holland and we have the only remaining complete one
The early muzzle break ill be copping
They even allowed me to climb on top of it to make some pictures
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.
slowly building up the hull
First try on the turret
Reprinted the turret.
First gun assembly.
The track tensioners of the panther fit perfect between the two hull plates.
Printed the suspension arms and put some brass bushings in them to make them last longer.
Road wheels also have bearings.
Tensioner wheel also printed.
And a lot of fitting parts and stuff later.
This is how far she is don now.
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
Made some normandie calls for both of them.
One of the 4 turrets I printed for her.
The final striped down turret im going to be juicing.
Testing the complete look
And finaly a side by side picture.
Hope you can make some sense of it all.
Greetings tim
shapeways do some really nice detail bits for these tanks which look great and saves a lot of fiddly scratch building 
