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Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:50 pm**

..been tinkering...

Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2017 7:37 pm**

nice super /p frank

Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2017 7:52 pm**

She a beauty!

Fancy making another out of a tamiya Pershing I have lieing about

Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:08 pm**

Beautiful work as usual Mr Frank

is this based on a heng long tank or Tamiya? Excellent either way just curious. You have such a great talent to make beautiful work and so fast

Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:47 pm**

You bringing it down to next club meet

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:31 am**

Nice one! How does the additional turret front armor and the tubes move when the barrel elevates / depresses?

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:34 am**

Lert wrote:Nice one! How does the additional turret front armor and the tubes move when the barrel elevates / depresses?

That's a great question Mr Lert. Maybe articulated?

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 5:15 am**

The added armour was attached to the mantlet, with the hydraulic cylinders above assisting with the elevation process.

http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/05/30/how- ... -its-name/

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:13 am**

That article doesn't mention the cylinders at all.
I don't doubt you Hermann as to there purpose but I always believed , wrongly now , they were for controlling recoil.

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:30 am**

Yes Hermans correct....I think the tubes were fitted as shock absorbers to lessen the strain on the elevation gear due to the extra "bounce" created by the longer barrel...they were fitted to the prototype before the extra mantlet armour was added...

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