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Blewvane · #41 ● 03-22-2011, 10:44 AM

Blewvane · #42 ● 03-22-2011, 10:48 AM

Blewvane · #43 ● 03-22-2011, 10:52 AM

Blewvane · #44 ● 03-22-2011, 11:01 AM

1/16 scale Tiger

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Blewvane · #45 ● 03-28-2011, 07:51 AM

Australian Sentinel :- The Sentinel tank was a cruiser tank designed in Australia in World War II in response to the war in Europe, and to the threat of Japan expanding the war to the Pacific or even a feared Japanese invasion of Australia. It was the first tank to be built with a hull cast as a single piece, and the only tank to be produced in quantity in Australia. The few (66) Sentinels that were built never saw action as Australia's Armoured Divisions had been equipped by that time with British and American tanks.
Here's the Wiki link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_tank
Here's another link. http://www.mheaust.com.au/Aust/Resea...sentinel13.htm

güttsfükk · #46 ● 03-31-2011, 07:43 AM

cant remember if i posted this link here before....

http://cgi.ebay.ca/WWII-Stuart-M5A1-...item2a0e41543a

rottenflesh · #47 ● 03-31-2011, 09:48 AM

Take a guess.

rottenflesh · #48 ● 03-31-2011, 09:49 AM

Here's another.

Blewvane · #49 ● 04-01-2011, 01:09 PM

First one has me stuffed but the second one is a Brazillian EE T1 Osorio MBT.

rottenflesh · #50 ● 04-03-2011, 12:08 AM

The Bernardini MB-3 Tamoyo was the product of one of the most unlikely tank projects in history - an attempt to develop a main battle tank out of the chassis of a light tank. It was essentially an offshoot of Bernardini's earlier 1970s modernization of Brazil's M41 Walker Bulldog light tank fleet to the M41C Caxias standard. Apparently, Bernardini felt that they could take the project much further than the upgrades specified by the Brazilian government, and decided to develop an M41-based tank that was much better-suited to a 1980s battlefield.

First designated "X-30", the program was established in 1978. The first MB-3 Tamoyo prototype was completed in 1982, and was armed only with a 76-mm gun, but the following 9 prototypes built in 1983 through 1985 had 90-mm guns (the 11th and last prototype had a 105-mm gun). The hull was significantly redesigned over the M41, and the turret was essentially all-new, resulting in a tank that looked almost nothing like what it was derived from.

Though the Brazilian government was highly impressed by the Tamoyo, and performed trials of it throughout the 1980s, as did Paraguay and Peru. It is worth mentioning that soon after another Brazilian MBT - the EE-T1 Osorio, developed by Engesa, has been introduced. However, the sudden onrush of cheap, second-hand tanks starting in the late 1980s (some of which were literally given away, at shipment cost only) ultimately doomed this venture. With the option to purchase hundreds of M60A3 TTS Main Battle Tanks (and Leopard 1A5s soon after), the Tamoyo didn't stand a chance. Bernardini continued it's marketing campaign for M41 conversions into MB-3 Tamoyo into at least 1993, but ultimately no buyers came forward, and the project was abandoned.

the MB-3 Tamoyo

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