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Re: Leopard 2A7V
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2024 7:28 am
by Rolf Mönke
Everything is visible again! Thank you.
Re: Leopard 2A7V
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2024 11:15 am
by Robert Tanzer
Thanks for sharing your fine work.
Re: Leopard 2A7V
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2024 8:17 pm
by Adrian Harris
Danke Günter
I have turned off the change I made and the pictures are still visible
Adrian.
Re: Leopard 2A7V
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:40 pm
by 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
Re: Leopard 2A7V
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 2:12 pm
by Günter Gäbelein
Re: Leopard 2A7V
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2024 10:54 am
by Rolf Mönke
Super!!!!!!
Re: Leopard 2A7V
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2024 1:50 pm
by Chang
Beyond my reachable imagination!!!
Re: Leopard 2A7V
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 7:32 am
by 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
Re: Leopard 2A7V
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 11:18 am
by 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 341 times
- An 1/16 scale towing cable.
- s-l400.jpg (34.25 KiB) Viewed 341 times
Best regards,
Lerh Chang