Light Tank Design

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Thursday, January 20th 2011, 2:13pm

Light Tank L-12 B (Mod. 1939/40)

Crew: 4
Weight: 18,5 t
Engine: 230 PS V-8 petrol-engine
Operational Range: Offroad ~ 150 km, On-road ~ 215 km
Armament: 37 mm gun, 2x 7,92 machine guns

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6259/l12bpaint.png

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parador

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Thursday, January 20th 2011, 2:53pm

Nice drawing !!!!

Real tank or only a project in your mind

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thesmilingassassin

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Thursday, January 20th 2011, 2:56pm

Nice drawing, looks like a cross between a T-50 and a Sherman.

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Brockpaine

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Thursday, January 20th 2011, 10:59pm

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Originally posted by thesmilingassassin
Nice drawing, looks like a cross between a T-50 and a Sherman.

Indeed.

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GromoBoy

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Friday, January 21st 2011, 8:47am

RE: Light Tank Design

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Light Tank L-12 B (Mod. 1939/40)

Good design!
It seems that the proportions a bit wrong, the machine gun turret on a very small

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Originally posted by thesmilingassassin
Nice drawing, looks like a cross between a T-50 and a Sherman.

Chassis, it seems, from the T-70

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thesmilingassassin

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Friday, January 21st 2011, 12:50pm

Indeed, and it has mostly Sherman lines on the upper hull with a hint of Canadian Ram at the front and a few french styling hues as well.

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Daidalos

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Friday, January 21st 2011, 3:51pm

Thanks for your critics. The tank is a fictional design but as GromoBoy guessed, I took the running gear from a T-70 and stretched it by one bottom roller.
Concerning the hull and turret design I had a mix of LT vz.35 and Hotchkiss H35/H-39 on my mind. Altough my design is a bit larger and heavier than those mentioned vehicles.
I think you are right on the proportions, the machine gun mounted on the cupola is wuite small. As i will realese upgraded versions of this tank, i will fix this issue.

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Daidalos

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Friday, January 21st 2011, 4:24pm

L-12 C (mod. 1941)
Here is my first upgrade on this tank.
I enlarged the machinegun for the commander, and added clenched armor-plates to the front hull. The Tank features now a 50 mm maingun and a storage box at the turret rear.

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/6571/l12c1paint.png

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BruceDuncan

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Friday, January 21st 2011, 4:34pm

The addition of the storage bin at the rear of the turret and the upgrade to a larger gun brings the entire drawing into better proportion. An excellent improvement!