My 1/16 Tank Collection

 It's been a while but after lockdowns and a move I've had no time for tanking. Having unpacked and sorted out all my tanks (and the weather was nice) I decided it'll be a good time for a photo op.

These are the ones I've done up / built-

Tamiya 1/16 King Tiger

Picked up a Tamiya KT for under £300 -

1/16 Panther G (Build)

Now I finished my Pz IV it's time to get started on the Pz V.

Picked up cheap 2nd hand Panther G some time ago and bought the taigen Panther hull from forgebeartanks.com

1/16 PzKpfw II Ausf F (Build)

Almost finished my Pz I so I've been printing out the parts for my next project-

Thats the bulk of the printing done, just a few bits like the manlet, exhausts and tracks left to do.

1/16 Heng Long Pz III

Painted this up a few years ago-

1/16 M3 Grant Turret

Not a complete build but I  thought I'd share it here.

A couple of days ago someone on RCU asked for a Grant turret so I thought I'd have a go (I wanted one for my Lee anyway)

Anyway a few nights playing on the PC and a days printing this is the result.

Render-

1/16 Pz Kpfw I AusfB (build)

I know I said no more new projects until I finished some of the ones I've already started but I almost got a good deal on a Panther. That got me thinking, with a Panther I'd have all the German Panzers that went into production during WWII apart from two (PzI and Pz II).

I went away last weekend  (couldn't do any modelling) so armed with my laptop, George Bradford's "German Early War AFV's", a ruler and Google image search, I got to work on the first production Panzer. As this was going to be my first all printed tank it seemed a good idea to start on something small and easy. Over the last week in between printing parts for other people I managed to do this-

1/16 Tiger 1

Some time ago I picked up a cheap non S & S Heng Long Tiger 1.

1/16 T26E1-1 Super Pershing

 This is my take on the Super Pershing.

1/16 IDF M50 (Build)

I've been making parts for a couple of guys who are building IDF M50/51's. I thought these tanks are based on the HVSS Shermans and as I have no spare Tam hulls I didn't think about making one. But then I came across this pic-

M50 with VVSS. So with some of my test/waste parts I set about building my own IDF tank-

Pz IIIn Videos

A couple of videos of my PZIIIn out for a spin-

 

1/16 Super Pershing. (Build)

I picked up a non S+S HL M26 (Snow Leopard) and have decided to build a Super Pershing.

1/16 Tiger 1

This is my first 1/16 tank (almost 10 years old). It's a heavily modified Heng Long, metal gears, wheels and tracks.  I beefed up the suspension to take the extra load. It was one of the early non S&S tanks with molded on tools. I tried to make it a kind of Berlin Tiger (ie. beat up and on its last legs.)

1/16 RC M7 Priest

Finished painting my 1/16 RC M7 Priest-

Based on a Heng Long M4 Sherman lower hull.

1/16 Three piece transmisson cover for the M3 / M4 based tanks.

So I decided to do a simple chop and swop three piece transmission for the M3 and M4 based tanks (M10, M7 etc)

Three piece transmission in nine pieces

US 1/16 scale WWII era tank filler caps.

These are test prints I made for my Hybrid Firefly but they can be used on any  Heng Long, Mato and Tamiya M4 Sherman (variant).

WSN 1/16 T-34 Build

I've posted a few videos of my T-34 so here's the build-

So to start-

I filled in each of the suspension arms to make them stiffer then bolted the to the chassis which has been strengthened with plasticard (I'm using plasticard because I'm trying to keep the weight down).

1/16 T34 video

I took my T-34 for a spin-

1/16 M7 Priest Build (Completed)

 I've been working on a 3d printed M7 Priest conversion to go on a Heng Long M4 Sherman lower hull. I'm using a 1/35 Revell M7 to scale up from as well as loads of images and diagrams I've found on the net.

This is going to be a rough build (0.2mm at high speed) just so I can work out all the sizes.

So far I have got the basic hull done (due to the limited size of my print bed the top hull will be in three parts)-

1/16 RC King Tiger video.

I took my KT for a spin-