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Need help/advice to sratchbuild T1 Cunningham
spongya
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Posted: Friday, March 08, 2013 - 06:01 AM UTC
It's one of my favorite tanks in WoT, and it does look kind of cool. Like stove with attitude. (The two lamps are like googly eyes.)

Anyhow, there's no kits of it available to my knowledge, so I'd like to build one. I have not been able to find scale drawings, but I think it's a fairly simple tank, so it should not really be a problem. The basic shape I can probably do using plastic sheets, but I have no clue how to do the suspension, tracks, the roadwheels and the turret. Never done scratchbuilding before.

Anyone any suggestion of plastic wheels or anything I could use?



(The same issue with the TOG2...)
turtle65
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Posted: Friday, March 08, 2013 - 01:15 PM UTC

You can find a set of 1/35th plans in George Bradfords book:
AFV Plans 1914-1938 Armoured Fighting Vehicles,
Pg 35 has a USA 1926 T1E2 Light Tank, fitted with high-velocity semi-automatic 37mm gun and .30 cal MG.
Not being a turret-head modeller I'll let others chime-in regarding building the track gear etc.
HTH
spongya
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Posted: Saturday, March 09, 2013 - 01:17 PM UTC
Thank you. I'll try to find the book
Delta42
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Posted: Saturday, March 09, 2013 - 01:31 PM UTC
If you are interested, Commander Models has a T1E2.

http://ironshipwrights.com/armor/T1E2.html

spongya
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Posted: Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 07:46 AM UTC
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:)

Thank you.

It's really annoying that it's very hard to find obscure subjects in models; even if they exist, a simple google search might not bring them up.

80 bucks is a bit too much, but as soon as I get my degree and a decend job it's ON.

Much appreciated.
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