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MM Armor Contest R-17
My entry for this one will be the classic WWI tank, the Renault R-17. I plan on heavily modifying this one with rivets, paint and any detail I can come up with!
Chris |
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Great choice Chris, a very interesting subject. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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Sounds like an interesting build - improving the suspension would be a real achievement - I haven't seen an FT-17 model which does justice to the original suspension.
Regards, Charlie |
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Great choice! - looking forward to this build
Tim |
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I see you are proceeding on several fronts, Chris.
This is among the most historic and widely-used of tanks. Good choice. Don |
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I was going to start on my SU-2 for the Aviation section of this competition, but I'm having really horrible problems with cleaning up my scans.
So in the meantime, I'm getting a start on the FT. The frame is very simple and I thought it wise to add a good number of supports to stiffen it up a bit. This kit isn't the "skinning the box" assembly that most of the later kits seem to be, it's just a skin on frame. The #110 paper I'm using is definitely thinner than the blotter paper of the original kit, so I'm expecting a few slight misfits as a result. As I'm planning on painting this model, I'm hoping I can simply trim any excess off the edges. I've been looking at color schemes for the FT-17 (or R-17) and while I really like some of the bolder WWI camo schemes, I'm tempted to finish this one in a WWII scheme; either the Morrocan Vichey French colors or the German captured colors (simple dark gray). MY wife is from the Isle of Jersey and on a visit there I got to stick my head up into one of the FT turrets that had been used as a pillbox fortification on an old Napoleonic fort there. So I think I may be leaning toward the gray, just for personal reasons.. I also need to print out a couple extras of a few of the pages so I can layer a few of the details. I still haven't figured out how the tracks on this one go together, so if anyone's built this and can give me a pointer or two, I'd appreciate it!:o I suspect I'll need to glue the tracks down on at least another layer of paper to get a decent thickness out of them; has anyone done this before? Chris |
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The model it appear to be the Renault R-31 or FT-31 from the World War II Poland army. It is the modernized FT-17 with iron leading wheels with pie piece segments versus wood from the First World War. There is the Russian Renault that is similar.
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Interesting info, thank you! As the FT-17s used in Jersey were part of a group of tanks reconditioned by the Germans, I'm not sure if or how they would have been updated. More research is called for! I'll see what I can find out about the Jersey tanks and decide whether it's really worth it, but I think I'd like to go that route if I can.
Chris |
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Looks like you are off to a good start. Personally I think dark grey would be great, that's what I'm thinking for the Stuart as well. I really don't care if there ever was a dark grey Stuart I just like the colour for tanks.
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The Germans certainly remanufactured French armour as various SP Guns in France so it seems reasonable that they would have used the ex-French army maintenance facilities to recondition FT-17s. FT-17s were also used by the Luftwaffe as airfield security vehicles in France and Holland. Regards, Charlie |
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