Hi All, subsequent to James's post here I realised there isnt any links to plans for this tank currently on the site that work...... sometime ago I found this set of plans on a russian site which I believe to be very accurate, they look good anyway...
This is the template for scratch-building a Schneider in 1/35 by Raoul Chatillon, originally published in MPM. Many thanks to lostiznaos (Gilles Thomas) for the tip-off that led to it and to Ironsides for additional material, as they say.
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Thanks for the link! Nice to see the article online. If anybody vould like to use the drawings and templates to built a CA-1, just notice that the overall dimensions are correct, but there are a lot of simplifications it could be better to correct, ie the floor sould be moved; regards Gilles(Lostiznaos)
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...If you compare the 1/72 plan on the site (top) with Steve Zaloga's 1/76 one (bottom) there is quite a difference in several of the dimensions...
Nice spotting James. If you compare the two with photos of the real thing, I would go with Mr. Zaloga's effort. The running gear is too small, and the MG position too large, on Mr. Chatillon's version.