And the first few compleated for 2024. All 3d printed targets in 72nd scale again. Only the Prototype/Cancelled projects this time.


The High Survivability Test Bed - Light. Better know to those of a certain age group as the Stingray tank from GI Joe.
Chinese 3d print off ebay again. Paint is a mix of Tamiya rattle can, Gunze and lifecolor. No decals on this one as per the sole example built, still knocking around in a museum stateside.


The VT1-2 weapons carrier. An attempt at a modern Jadgpanzer with a pair of 120mm tubes. Based on the running gear of the failed MBT-70. One of two built the other, the VT1-1 carried a pair of 105's instead of the 120's. The VT1-2 is currently on display in the Panzer museum in Munster.
Yet anothe 3d job from China. Paint work is Hataka for the most part. Decals robbed from the remains of a revell decal sheet from a leopard 2.


The M8 Buford air portable mobile gun system. aka a light tank. Intended for the 82nd airborne to replace the M551 Sheridan. In the basic config shown here it was just about air dropable from a C-130. Fine if you only want protection from splinters and small arms fire. The up armored version was to heavy to drop so would need unloading from a Herc the old fashioned way.
The project was Cancelled before any could be depolyed with the 82nd for real.
Yeap another 3d print, this time from Badger 3d productions here in the UK. AK paints for this one.


The C-RAM Centurion. This thing, or at least the trailor mounted version has seen some combat testing in Afganistan. It is rumored the truck version is high on the wish list of new toys for the Ukrainians.
Another Badger 3d productions print. Mig/Ammo for the bulk of the paint job.

I also finished off a number of real world 3d prints along with these:
British army Mastiff and Foxhound MRAP's, US Army M9 armored combat excavator, Austrailian AS21 Redback IFV and M1074 Joint Assault Bridging System. All from Badger 3d.
Also an M50 Ontos and an M56 Scorpion from various Chinese ebay traders.

That C-RAM Centurion certainly shows you what 3 D printing can do. Nice collection Martin 

Nice targets again.

Video about the M8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRTj_23qC24

And one about the M10 (which is absolutely definitely not the same thing they cancelled 25 years ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVeoI3euvQ

Looks like my no more models until I have finished the house is going out of the window . Again
Very nice builds as per Martin.

Nice 

Quote from: chrisonord on February 06, 2024, 10:30:20 AMLooks like my no more models until I have finished the house is going out of the window . Again
Very nice builds as per Martin.

Dont !!! focus on the house, that 3D stuff can drag you in and become all consuming, just ask Martin 

Work on the house so you can build more rooms to put kits and models in!

Quote from: Thorvic on February 06, 2024, 02:57:19 PM

Quote from: chrisonord on February 06, 2024, 10:30:20 AMLooks like my no more models until I have finished the house is going out of the window . Again
Very nice builds as per Martin.

Dont !!! focus on the house, that 3D stuff can drag you in and become all consuming, just ask Martin 

Haha, I am getting there, the model room is going to need a lot of shelving doing for sure.

Wondering when we'll see 3D printed houses   

Quote from: NARSES2 on February 07, 2024, 07:12:26 AMWondering when we'll see 3D printed houses   

They are working on that and there are lots of protatypes that have been built. Lots of videos on YouTube.

Gondor

Finaly found some time to finish some thing.........all be it more targets in my usual 72nd scale.
This time a D day tribute trio. Two real world, one whiffed.

4th June 1944, In a field someware in deepest darkest Kent Operation Fortitude is in full swing.

760 along with many others of its kind are doing a grand job. sitting there in that field, doing nothing apart from looking like a tank park ready for a trip across the par de Calias (as some in Berlin beleaved)
Yes, its an inflateable Sherman. It is a 3d print that came with decals from China that I found quite by chance on Ebay.com. The subject matter was quirky enougth to grab my attention and aquire an example.
Tamiya rattle can all the way. This model came with various "gun" barrels in various degrees of Droop. I went for something slightly mid range...............

Next
Mean while at an embarcation port someware in the English south west............

I'm calling this the Sherman Lobster. Of 2 troop, 1st Lothian & Border Yeomanry. 79th Armored Division (Hobarts Funnies) . These would see action in the Caen area later in the campain.
Well, if the Crab used the flail, im sure the 79th would have come up with a suitably similar name to the Crab for a mine roller.........
Again a 3d print. This time from Badger 3d creations up there in Yorkshire. Tamiya rattle can again for the paint, decals (for a Crab) from a Stardecals "British special shermans" sheet
In reality this is a Sherman M4A3 fitted with the T1E3 mine roller. A few did see action with U.S. Forces in Europe. None found their way to UK forces as far as I can tell. We relied on the Crab flails.

And lastly.
Also at an Embarcation port in the South west.

Meet Edna. A Sherman BARV of the Beach group (79th Armored) soon to go ashore at Juno beach.
Another 3d print, this time from Poland via Etsy. I have the same guys other BARV kits so I can now do a line up of all three UK BARV types. (Sherman, Centurion & Hippo)
Edna appears to be one of the few surviving and still running Sherman BARV's doing the rounds of the UK vintage vehicles rallies.. Or at least one of her sisters is marked up as her.
Again good old Tamiya rattle can for the most part and decals from the same sheet as the Lobster.........

    

Magic stuff OGL! 

I love that BARV. 

I'm loving the inflatable.