I've been asking a lot of question concerning Otazel
I started with the Takom Mk 1 Male and converting this kit into Ozatel on the Gaza beach..
what I've done so far: -a lot of research -damage on the RH side of the tank -replaced the kit cab with the MR resin cab -tried to recreate the curved RH track -made the roof studs -made the stowage supports on the roof -modified the "sponson cart" to the one on the picture -made the sandshield on the fwd trackhorns
Ive only the two photographs as reference which leaves a lot to guess and it's far from finished .
But if you have any comments or see things wrong ,please feel free to post.
greetz
Ronald
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really nice model of Otazel!
The Mk.I tank builds are really starting to come out now...Although, so far I have seen quite a few Gaza tanks being modeled, but so far no models of tanks from the Somme 1916.
Which material did you use for the angle irons for the stowage frame?
Did you notice that you also need to mount an exhaust pipe on Otazel?
Take a close look at the first picture you posted, the exhaust is clearly visible.
But it does not seem to be wrapped like I did with my Tiger.
The Exhaust improvements made to the MK1 in Gaza have actually solved a little mystery for me. On the MKII at Bovington is a few holes that I have struggled to make sense of. I guessed that it had an exhaust upgrade at some point but at the time it didn't explain some extra holes that didn't seem to do anything.
I have attached a photo of the roof of the MKII and and you will see that they cut down the rear triangular smoke deflected to make a rest for the new exhaust. Immediately behind the rest is two hole is the square exhaust holder plate, these are also to be found in another one in front. These holes I am now pretty sure were drilled all the way into the tank so that a U-Bolt could be fitted to hold the new exhaust on to the rest.
It's amazing how many times you can look at a photo and not see the evidence in front of you. This is part of what I love about researching these early tanks.
I completely missed out on the exhaust.....( I studied these picture about a zillion times )........ shame on me !!!
I thought they only did remove the smoke deflectors
So I have to put the exhaust on .
The stowage frame is made of pieces of Evergreen plastic strips (angled shaped)
By the way, I did make a Somme MK1 Male with steering wheel and grenade deflector (C-19 Clan Leslie)
But I'm not happy with the paint so far.
If you like I will post a picture of it ....
I fixed the exhaust muffler and pipe (thanks again for the remark) , did some work on the sponson cart and the wheatering of the tracks.
Also included a picture of my Mk1 Male (Somme 1916) (with selfmade grenade roof) I planning to make C-19 Clan Leslie, but as you can see the camo sceme is far from correct, so I am going to redo this .
I also got two Mk IV 's (male & female)on the workbench , one is going to be C-47 Conqueror and the other one (Male) I haven't decided yet, but it's going to be a "knocked out" version for sure.....
