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Long Tom


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Yes, I saw the article on the site, though it is for the 1/72 Emhar tank model.  I want to do it in 1/35 as it seems comparatively simple.  But the question is, what else would have to be done on the bigger scale tank, which is of course a different kit?  Thanks.

BTW, my intention is to depict a British town war memorial tank dedication ceremony.  In the Osprey books, most of the supposed "war veteran" tanks actually weren't, and the Mark III, from what I assume, never appeared outside Britain.  It seems that it is easier to convert Emhar's Mark IV to the older version than to make it to a correct Mark IV, and for the purposes either version will do the job.



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I think that the changes necessary are the same on both scales of kit. 

I would use some good photos of Mark III tanks, and then decide on which one I wanted to build.

Here's Haslingden's Mark III. And there are quite a few others, wrongly captioned, in A J Smither's "A New Excalibur"



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I was thinking this paragraph in the article:

Next, the cab front. Mk IIIs were used for driver training and weapons were rarely fitted, especially the machine guns. Leave the forward Hotchkiss mounting off the cab front or replace it with a Lewis gun. If you want to be really picky, you can move the rivets at the top left and right of the cab a little closer to the other rivets but at this scale, it wont really be noticeable.

My Osprey book of the Mark I (and II and III) does show some nice pictures of the sides of the Mark III tank.  If I had a view of the cab front, I could do the whole thing.  But then again, I could have sworn there were short exhaust pipes sticking out of the top?



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I think that is why you have to pick one, and stick with it.

If you left the front (cab) MG off, and changed the model so the mounting actually looked like a ball mounting (they turned them sideways, so just a ball would be good), that would be correct (I think). Also, you could just leave a great big round hole in the front!

The rivets are probably noticeable in the big scale; so the top left corner, and top right corner rivets on the front of the cab, you might consider moving. The photo I linked to shows these clearly. (1st and 2nd rivet are closer to each other, than any of the others are to each other)

Exhausts did vary on the Mk IIIs; at least according to photos. Again, A New Excalibur has a surprisingly large number of photos of Mark III.

Have you seen the photos in this article? The front can be seen clearly.

HTH

 

 



-- Edited by PDA on Sunday 24th of April 2011 12:59:48 PM

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The exhausts were the same for the Mk I - Mk III, i.e. the three "inverted V" covers. The only exception to this was refitted Mk I & II supply tanks.



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Yes, the Mark III conversion does seem much easier-fewer rivets to add, no worry about roof rails, and most of all, it would add to the joke about the tank that supposedly seen combat service but didn't.



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Here's another thread, WWI Tanks in Kent, that shows the exhaust. Mark is, of course, correct, they seem to have just the "triangular" baffles.



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Thanks for the link to the kent history forum, Phil. That has cleared up another question in another thread.



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