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Just found this nice clip of functional Brits tanks on display in 2016. Awesome. May not be new to some, but well worth a look...and especially a listen. Those Rolls-Royce downgraded Spitfire engines make a nice deep rumble on
5.1 speakers I wonder if this sound can be captured, and input into the Clark tk60. That alone would sell the card to me..

..and if you want to see just how much exhaust gas a WW2 tank can put out, Shaun, just have a look at this one! .. Model tanks need smoke units...and the real ones require gas masks

Clark already do a centurion soundset for the tk60

Stian has done me a soundset for my cromwell

Sounds very nice quite a beast of a tank rumbling smoking and spitting out some fire too

The WW2 exhaust was a known design fault. If you take a look at the post war versions you will see that it has been totally redesigned. Not a lot of good having a tank that broadcasts its position every time the engine starts. lol.



A bit of Comet history on this one.



and of course I have one....

Great pics of the centurion - following your inspirational build I'm kind of fancying a scratch build of the centurion, maybe after the JS2 next winter.

Alwyn

Rumour has it that HL are working on one, though I will believe it when I see it.

tomhugill wrote:Stian has done me a soundset for my cromwell

Yes, he's a very talented guy. Would love to have that Merlin/Meteor sound on board; especially with a brace of decent speakers. You went with the Clark Tk60 road with your Cromwell, then? I'm leaning that way myself, as that unit seems to be fairly flexible and future proof. I can imagine there are lots of pros; but have you come up with any cons yet?

I can't see HL doing a centurion as the suspension would require quite a lot of assembly for them unless they fudge it somehow. I've just done the research on tank size and it will be a beast - 48.8cm long by 21.2cm wide. chris has a kit for it but it's out of my financial league, I downloaded his assembly pdf just to look at the complexity of the suspension. The suspension is doable with 3d printing though..... Maybe a project for the long winter nights.

Alwyn

ps I've just printed the blueprints and discovered that the KV1 track is very close to the right size for a Centurion if you remove the extra bit of plastic on both sides of the track, and the drive sprocket could be modified with a plastic insert, which just leaves the drive wheels, idlers, and return rollers which can be printed..... Hmmmm it's going to be a busy winter.