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Re: Panzer III variant

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:22 pm
by Ex_Pat_Tanker
Ok its the Panzer III with the gun from a Bison welded on

Re: Panzer III variant

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:03 pm
by guhei
It´s this one

Re: Panzer III variant

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:37 pm
by wibblywobbly
See, the Germans know their armour!  ;D

Re: Panzer III variant

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:07 am
by Matdragon
nice one!

Rob what happened to the lorry tank with trailor thing ?

Matt

Re: Panzer III variant

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:24 pm
by wibblywobbly
I was looking around, and the lorry variant doesn't look as if it was built on same hull, so I started looking a bit more and asked around on the forum, and then settled on this. What I may do (as it will all cost me virtually nothing, is to put a tow hook on the back of this one and either tow a trailer, an artillery gun, or even build a tank transporter trailer. It will be something different. Shame there is no room for a detailed interior, I did try but the RX18 and speaker have to go in the lower and the P3 is small enough as it is??

Some more pics...done the checker-plate, and it looks ok (better than it looks).

Re: Panzer III variant

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:04 pm
by vonrundstedt
Very nice, and very rare then? good work wibbly, look forward to finished result ;D

                  Regards, Luke

Re: Panzer III variant

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:19 pm
by wibblywobbly
a bit more done today....

Re: Panzer III variant

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:21 pm
by BREL
cool looking vehicle

Re: Panzer III variant

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:59 pm
by jrc
great work Rob, you're going to get me in trouble cos I see another one to do for the collection ::)

Re: Panzer III variant

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:51 pm
by wibblywobbly
Well it is a little different, though it was only intended to be a runabout when I started. I haven't actually measured anything or scaled anything, I don't have a ruler. I just looked at pics and went...hmmm..that looks about right, and cut up styrene sheets. The only 'measuring' that I did was to match left and right bits so that it remains symmetrical, and used a vernier gauge to get strips the same width all the way down. I moulded the fiddly bits out of JB Weld or Milliput.

I also managed to swap a can of Nitro Cleaner for a complete set of metal sprockets/idlers, the ball raced ones with the optional centre cap inserts.  ;)