Leopard 2A7V

[Rolf Mönke]

Everything is visible again! Thank you.

[Robert Tanzer]

Thanks for sharing your fine work.

[Adrian Harris]

Danke Günter

I have turned off the change I made and the pictures are still visible

Adrian.

[Günter Gäbelein]

Hi all,

update for today.
Some parts for drivers hatch protection






Driver compartment from backside


Some parts added to the hull




Turret base in place






checking the turret bearing (powered with 4V) https://www.panther-tanks.de/Leo2A7V/IMG_7664.MOV

to be followed

[Günter Gäbelein]

Hello,
here is my last update.
I started make the light side skirts used at mark 2A7V. CV0601 and CV0602 parts are designed new and printed in aluminum.








Next step was finishing the head lights ...










... the indicator


... and the frontside SPECTUS II sensor head. An ESP32-Cam module is implemented and the life stream is shown at the monitor in front of the driver and sent via WLAN hotspot to my smartphone




The driving motors are in place


And last but not least I started modifying the turret base for the interior.


Thats it for today, to be continued

[Rolf Mönke]

Super!!!!!!

[Chang]

Beyond my reachable imagination!!!

[Günter Gäbelein]

Hi all,
I have started to modify the turret. First of all I removed some material from the turret base for a better integration of the interior. I assume this was more than 1 kg. Furthermore, I placed some borings for the placement of the turret fron armor. In the meanwhile my 3D printer was producing some parts for gun.
Modified gun with interior parts placed at the turret base. The sliding breech mechanism is still not in place.






The ammunition storage compartment


The left hand turret inside placed to check the position of the ammunition box for the machine gun


For the gun I replaced all parts of the kit to reduce the weight. I used an aluminum tube 45mm x 2,5mm x 370mm and placed a printed part at the front and the breechblock at the rear end. The bigger tube is printed in ABS too.


The machine gun I had designed many years ago by measuring a machine gun from Dragon in order to design a bracket for the machine gun at my Wiesel TOW in 1:6 scale. Now this was a first try to reproduce the machine gun by myself. An it worked well.




Machine gun in place






Without removing the turret roof you will probably never see the machine gun
First details placed to the left side


Left hand turret side showing the additinal borings




Modifications at the right side according to the replacement of the EMES


Thats it for today, to be followed

[Chang]

This is the most detailed upgrading modelling I've ever seen. Well done Günter .

I always am thinking of adding two rear sight mirrors , a MG 3 machine gun on the turret's roof , and two correct-shape towing cables. Have you thought them too?

From an 1/16 or 1/35 scale Leopard A4.

An 1/6 scale die-cast MG-3.

1-6 MG3-1.JPG (78.68 KiB) Viewed 1793 times

An 1/16 scale towing cable.

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Best regards,
Lerh Chang

[Günter Gäbelein]

Hi all,
my last update is long time ago. First I was working on some software for the displays and then I started designing th modification for the turret. This was very time consuming ...
Here are the fistst results:

the rear turret is a complete new design made of milled and bent alu parts and some printed ABS parts


the turret will get its own power supply. The main switch is placed inside of one of the boxes


at the rear side the the ice grabbers (new designed and printd in ABS) will be placed


rear turret L/H


next I designed the new gun mantlet introduced with Leopard 2A5


the elevation servo is placed at the left side. It works with 12V and can operate 45 kg, should be enough for the gun


front view of the gun mantlet


a microcontroller is places in each of these ECUs to controll the dispalys and the PERI


the door to the ammunition compartment is operated too


view to the gunners seat


starting with the front armor for the turret


the EMES was replaced the gap is closed by printed parts


the turret battary will be placed in the air condition compartment, distribution box in place


new details placed the turret left side and on the turret roof. The loaders copula is redesigned but still not complete


additional stowage boxes at the roof




new details added to the rear turret


















Next I will provide pictures about the turret front armor

[Martin Usher]

stunning work Gunter, i have now repacked mine and sent it back to Armortek for a refund, i cant compete with this, wonderful to look at for sure.
regards
Martin.

[Christoffer Ahlfors]

Not sure how to interpret this. I just hope it's a joke. Most of us here are nowhere close to Günther's league, but have great fun with our models anyway.

[Andre Meylan]

Good morning Günter, a truckload of fine art you are performing - congratulations!

Can I please ask you a tiny detail. What material did you use to make the black step pads, is this sanding paper? I am thinking about this to make it as thin as possible but don't have a solution yet.

Best regards, André

[Günter Gäbelein]

Hi André,
yes I used 180er sanding paper. The contour is printed to a self-adhesive paper to back side of the sanding pager. Then the step pads are cutted out and the self-adhesive paper is removed before gluing the pads to the model.

[Günter Gäbelein]

This is the most detailed upgrading modelling I've ever seen. Well done Günter .

I always am thinking of adding two rear sight mirrors , a MG 3 machine gun on the turret's roof , and two correct-shape towing cables. Have you thought them too?

Leo 2 mirror-0.jpg
1-6 MG3-1.JPG
s-l400.jpg

Best regards,
Lerh Chang

Hi Chang,
I am still not certain if I place the machine gun to the loaders hatch. I plan to rework the look of towing cables however, these will then not be able to tow the tank. The mirrors will be added, at least in fold down position.