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Re: Comet hull width?
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2016 11:13 am
by tomhugill
wibblywobbly wrote:You are star!
The best I got from enlarging/scaling up pics of the Bronco 1/35 sprues was 114mm wide plus 2 x 2.5mm for the side walls, so 119mm. If you have 128mm and that is Ludwig hull then I will go with that. 119mm looks way too narrow.
The length of the side plates is 425mm using my Heath Robinson approach, and as they are already cut out they will have to do. Unless I am a million miles out.
Look forward to see how you put this together Rob! Are you doing a comet or a Cromwell?
Re: Comet hull width?
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2016 11:52 am
by wibblywobbly
I thought I would give it a go, I have a few A3 sheets of styrene lying about so I have nothing to lose. The suspension will be a challenge due to the twin wall, but hopefully I can make the arms to fit. The HL gearbox shafts line up almost perfectly with where I marked the holes.I'll use PzIII return rollers and Leopard or Bulldog road wheels, and solve the sprocket and idler problem when I get to them. Pziii tracks seem the way to go.
I went for the Comet rather than the Cromwell for no other reason than I prefer the looks, and it was the only British tank that could take on the German ones. Smaller gun but we had tungsten shells, which the Germans didn't have.
Interestingly although the A34 went into production, an A44 was designed that was wider and longer, and that was designed to take the gun, and had sloped armour, rather than the workaround jobbie that was the Comet.