T1, T1E1 and T1E2 Cunningham!

Six pieces and three Cunningham variants!

Ford 3-Ton Ready for print!

Its ready for print. By the way I added some details on tracks.

Ford 3-Ton M1918

Just finished another US light tank of WW1 and Interwar period. This time its Ford 3-Ton M1918 light tankette.

Design on the 3-ton tank started in mid-1918, before which American tank forces had been largely equipped with British or French examples. The 3-Ton was a two man tank designed so that American forces could use another tank besides the Renault FT in battle, and was in fact designed around the FT but as a cheaper alternative. Its two Model T ford engines were controlled from the driver- seated at the front- with a gunner beside him who had control of a 7.62mm machine gun on a limited-traverse mount. The initial production run of the 3-ton was of fifteen vehicles, one of these was sent to France for testing. A contract for 15,000 of these vehicles was awarded; however, the U.S tank corps felt it did not meet the requirements they wanted. The contract for the 15,000 tanks was ended by the Armistice, leaving only the fifteen original vehicles produced.

CHAAARGE!

T1 Cunningham ready for print :)

Made some final touches to the model, so it can be printed and assembled :)

15mm T1 Cunningham FINISHED!

ITS FINISHED! 

T1 and Litle Willie size comparison. T1 is 3,8cm long and Willie is 5,87cm long

CHARGE!

Started working on 15mm LK-II

I started working on 15mm scale LK-II tank. I just finished base hull and will be adding details soon. There is LOTS and LOTS of work to do. On photo above you can see finished 15mm Little Willie, 80% finished T1 Cunningham (I will add tracks soon) and very raw LK-II. LK-II have same size as Renault FT-17, similar weapon and armor, but much faster (14-18 km/h against 7 km/h)

Finished model will look like this:

T1 Cunningham progress report - part2,5

10 minutes of modeling and hull is done! I plan to finish tracks tomorrow morning. For this picture I included early T1 hull and turret with single gun and also separate T1E1 turret wit short gun and machine gun.

PS. Tomorrow I will also remodel all radiators on both vehicles. I tried to make radiators a bit cartoony, so it will look good in 15mm (model is only 3,8 cm long), but I changed my mind, because the look so bad..