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vollketten


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I made a 3d model of this rather obscure design based off the blueprints which are a little confusing and the drawings of it from the old landships site.

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Please forgive the little A number and name.

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Without the trailing wheels http://i.imgur.com/LktDQ99.png 

and with http://i.imgur.com/C9bE7vC.png 

I'm unclear on the actual means of attaching the wheels to the hull as its not shown in the plans I have 

Considering this got as a far as a proper drawing I'm finding it hard to find anything decent on it like engine, armour, projected performance or why those side plates seem to stick out so far. 

If anyone has any info or pointers I'd appreciate it and make those changes because I plan to amend this to the Flottila Leader next



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Good work! The reason why the drawings on the old Landships site, which I made, are confusing is because the original Fosters drawings I based them on are also vague and confusing. They have none of the detail of the later Fosters drawings.

The Flotilla Leader is literally a sketch made in coloured pencils on graph paper, with handwritten notes.

The Battle Tank, which you've reconstructed, does exist as a Fosters drawing, with many dimensions on it, but little fine detail. It is very schematic.

Below you can see scans of the originals, which are intentionally massively smaller and vastly less usable than the versions I have as one of the conditions of my being able to use them as reference material for the article I originally wrote was not to publish them in detail, either in print or on the web. I feel, however, that displaying them here greatly reduced and watermarked should be within the spirit of the agreement.

Flotilla Leader web red watermarked copy.jpgFBT for web reduced watermarked copy.jpg



-- Edited by Roger Todd on Friday 31st of March 2017 11:02:45 AM

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hmmm, excellent thank you Roger. The more I stared at them I wanted to draw those weird overhanging side plates to be hinged somehow to fold in or they just catch on everything. Drawing 105V was the one on which I based the drawing although that blue/white copy has a little more details than mine had which makes the movement of the back wheels a lot more obvious.
that flotilla leader image is great thank you. That frontal armour is very heavy for the era so I'll get to work and do that one next.
I forgot to include this projection of the Battletank sorry. Hopefully someone will find it useful for modelling.
i.imgur.com/drszJVp.png

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Wow!! This is the first time I have seen, or heard about, this strange vehicle. Thank you both for publishing it here.

Grant

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Granty101 wrote:

Wow!! This is the first time I have seen, or heard about, this strange vehicle. Thank you both for publishing it here.

Grant

 You can read the complete article here:

http://www.landships.info/landships/tank_articles.html?load=tank_articles/Flying_Elephant.html



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Roger Todd wrote:
Granty101 wrote:

Wow!! This is the first time I have seen, or heard about, this strange vehicle. Thank you both for publishing it here.

Grant

 You can read the complete article here:

http://www.landships.info/landships/tank_articles.html?load=tank_articles/Flying_Elephant.html

Cheers Roger. I have heard of the Flying Elephant, but know nothing about the original Fosters design illustrated here.

 

Grant



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