And now for something a little different

By Patrick H. Dillman (Patrick) on Friday, March 02, 2018 - 02:58 pm: Edit

Would this be in the larger scale with separate tanks and IFV's? Love the idea!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 02, 2018 - 03:41 pm: Edit

This is for 1/285.

By Steve Cain (Stevecain) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 03:51 am: Edit

I like the majority of this; but the barrel seems off. What about something more the size of the Pz III Ausf. N with the thicker short barrel?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 06:34 am: Edit

This is what the published art says it looks like.

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 09:51 am: Edit

Has it ever been defined what kind of weapon the main gun is? I don't recall. But if the main gun is a phaser or disruptor there's no particular reason why it need to have a long barrel. On the other hand, if it fired a kinetic energy penetrator, comparable to a 20th/21st century sabot round, I would expect a long barrel. On the... umm... other other hand, if it's a projectile weapon but it fires high explosive, and something analogous to a shaped-charge warhead for anti-armor work, raw projectile velocity isn't as important so, again, it wouldn't necessarily need a long barrel. That's why I was wondering if the type of weapon has ever been explicitly defined.

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 10:53 am: Edit

100 pounds of tungsten with an impulse motor on the back - just a bright white line between the tank and the crater where the target used to be.

Given the crater-making ability of a standard phaser rifle on maximum power, anything worthy of putting on an armored vehicle is going to be ludicrously obnoxious. More of a landscape rearrangement tool rather than a precision weapon - direct fire weapon through the hill, as it were.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 04:10 pm: Edit

It has been defined as an energy weapon. The 3d art is based on the orthos I did a decade or more ago in GURPS KLINGONS. They aren't going to change.

By Randy Blair (Randyblair) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 04:46 pm: Edit

How does the tank get off the shuttle when it lands?

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 05:17 pm: Edit

It's a hover tank, so I doubt unloading is much of an issue. Just a brief adjustment to the counter-gravity hover height.

By Steve Cain (Stevecain) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 06:02 pm: Edit

SVC- That's fine. The GPD Klingon just seemed a little more massive in thickness; but that could just be the grayscale.

By Steve Cain (Stevecain) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 06:14 pm: Edit

Will- PD mentions monkey models for export that might not be so fancy. Also, there are things said various places about other motive systems for vehicles. *IF* tracks and alike were to impact a model of armored vehicle is still less defined.

Randy- tanks have been doing the 'get off train' or 'get off truck trailer' since WWI. It happens...there are videos out there. Usually they are the ones that include a colossal blunder.

By Steve Cain (Stevecain) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 06:18 pm: Edit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBvad57_BEs

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 09:36 pm: Edit

Everything air-droppable at least once.

(insert LAPES video here)

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 09:38 pm: Edit

What about lighter than air balloons?

By Jeffrey George Anderson (Jeff) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 10:30 pm: Edit

Perhaps a dumb idea, but I'd still like to toss it out there...

How is the tank locked in place on the shuttle? I mean, I was thinking about the pins that're used to lock stacked containers on intermodal trains (and on container ships), but with the hundreds of Gees that the shuttles pull, flying in at nearly the speed of light, unless there were some way for the inertial dampers on the shuttle to protect the tank crew, they'd be chunky salsa by the time they landed.

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 11:05 pm: Edit

I like these, I will have to get back into 1/285th scale.

All good

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 12:38 am: Edit

The Star Fleet Technical Manual introduced the concept of "magnatomic adhesion strips". Between those and control of gravity, there's no way the tank is going anywhere until the shuttle's pilots want it to.

IIRC, the HTS shuttle is described as having a fold-up enclosure to allow it to transport personnel in the rear area, when needed. Given that, it's certainly able to wrap its structural integrity field/inertial dampeners influence around anything in that volume.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 01:24 am: Edit

Zip ties made of exotic future materials.

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 09:30 am: Edit

Duct tape.

By Nick Blank (Nickgb) on Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 05:44 pm: Edit

Shuttles (like ships) have inertial dampers for passengers and cargo, so it may be pulling hundreds of Gs, but the contents don't feel it.