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For my dissertation I wanted to look at the benefits of sloped armour (an excuse to look at tanks ) so I am trying to simulate a projectile impact on the hull front of a Tiger and Panther in Solidworks. I cant seem to find the full dimensions of the hull front of either tanks so if anyone can help please do.
I also will try a physical scale test so if anyone has a spare hull of either and would like to donate it to Science
Though still not sure of the best scale to reduce the scale effects.
Anyway, any help is greatly appreciated! Cheers

You can do a mock up with the proper steel on a fixed platform for destructive testing. IE-shooting APFSDS-T at it.

I can't think of anyone willing to give up a hull in any shape for destructive testing.

Regards

I wish I had the resources to do an accurate test like that! More likely to be using an air rifle to fire at a mock hull to comparitively test the results.
If previously requested info is lacking perhaps Tamiya Panther and Tiger owners out there could measure thier tanks? I gather the Tamiya tanks are more accurate at least than the HL ones
Thanks for any help

I don't know if this is what you looking for, but this is the Panthers I had found a while ago.

85mm of armor sloped at 55 degrees gave it an effective thickness of 185mm making it difficult for allied armor to penetrate

Those specs are a little off

The final model Panther Ausf G had a maximum of 80 mm on the glacis plate and 120 mm on the gun manlet

In any case, still sufficient over the tanks frontal arc to defeat AP shot from British and American 75 mm/76 mm guns at any range, and the Soviet 85 mm gun at ranges exceeding 500 m

Yeah it was 80mm frontal armour, effective thickness of 140mm for a flat trajectory shell. Even the 60mm prototype had effectively 105mm.
Anywho I need dimensions like the arrowed in the following at bottom and right;



but all of them. Looking at the front of the tank all widths and heights of each part of the hull front. Cheers for the help!