M41 Assault Gun

[Rick Lowe]

 

[Wardukw]

Ken's right about the liberty ships and so is your Uncle matey .
With the massive need for these ships and the mental speeds in which they were built ...bad workmanship or just under trained personnel there was definitely going to be problems.
There's many stories of these ships breaking in half in rough water ..hell sometimes even in very mild seas that happened but that's war time for ya .
When you do see the welding done correctly on a sunken ship that has been torpedoed...pretty much everytime the steel around the welds is torn or cracked but the weld remains 

[Rick Lowe]

Interesting. 

[Wardukw]

Interesting. 

Yep   

[kerick]

Just found this morning some sort of base from something from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. It's square with sides at 45 degrees. Something to mess around with for ideas.

[Wardukw]

45 degree is a good angle for armour on the front of a vehicle..on the sides it would make the roof height quite low on a tank as small as the M41...it's also a narrow machine too .
The sides would be better at 60 degrees..more room in the fighting area for the crew.

[kerick]

45 degree is a good angle for armour on the front of a vehicle..on the sides it would make the roof height quite low on a tank as small as the M41...it's also a narrow machine too .
The sides would be better at 60 degrees..more room in the fighting area for the crew.

It extends over the tracks now so I might widen it to cover the tracks completely. I found some cool photos about how to mount the M48 cupola.

[Rick Lowe]

Pics, we need Pics! 

[kerick]

Time for a photo dump.
Here's the chopped up hull.



Hull parts glued back together to make one six wheeler and one four wheeler.



The four wheeler may get armed with a TOW or some other system.



Here is the front and rear upper hull parts. I've since cut the top grills off and will use those for exhaust grills M60 style.

I widened the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea base to fit over the fenders. I may square off the back once I figure out how long it needs to be.





Here's the M48 cupola set on top. WOW, that's fugly!





That thing is just huge! Using that might be a crime against humanity............
Or it might be fun........

Big problems yet are building out the fenders, putting together the new engine deck, mounting the gun barrel and deciding whether to use ERA panels or not.

[Rick Lowe]

WOW, that's fugly!

But with an Attitude - so all good!

Looking good so far! 

[kerick]

I stumbled upon a prototype light tank called the T92 that used two of what appeared to be M48 cupolas. A regular one on the right side and a mirror image one on the left side. Twice as fugly! No wonder it got canceled.

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar/US/76mm-gun-tank-t92/





Actually it couldn't be an M48 cupola as the M48 hadn't been built yet but the family resemblance was clearly there.

[Wardukw]

Fugly is the word ...love it 😀

Ken when it comes to the ERA you'll only need that if this is a relatively modern vehicle...pre  1987 vehicles wouldn't have it .

[Jakko]

The cupolas on the T92 are not quite the same as on the M48, but they're clearly related. Your M41 variants are looking cool

[kerick]

Fugly is the word ...love it 😀

Ken when it comes to the ERA you'll only need that if this is a relatively modern vehicle...pre  1987 vehicles wouldn't have it .

I'm going to use some welded on armor plate in a few spots and that's all. And side skirts. I'll need those to hide were the tracks are joined as they will be a little short now.

[Wardukw]

Fugly is the word ...love it 😀

Ken when it comes to the ERA you'll only need that if this is a relatively modern vehicle...pre  1987 vehicles wouldn't have it .

I'm going to use some welded on armor plate in a few spots and that's all. And side skirts. I'll need those to hide were the tracks are joined as they will be a little short now.

Good ...a simple but effective way to go and it's the two birds with one shovel trick 😉 😀
ERA is also alot of work when you have to custom mount it ...ya just never seem to have ERA which fits scratch built models properly