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Show and Tell / Tamiya Gepard(Cheetah) SPAAG
« on: September 18, 2018, 09:54:47 AM »
Time for another project that has been sitting too long under my workbench..
It started all when i wanted to buy a Tamiya Gepard for a colleague of mine..
Before i knew it the seller asked me to build a full option model for him..!
The Tamiya Gepard is known as the Cheetah PRTL in the Netherlands and the owners served on one of these when he was in the army..
Here a picture of one of the models and it's box:
And the model itselves:
This is going to be quite some conversion as we have a lot of stuff that has to move controlled by the Openpanzer! Think about:
- Folding the rear radar up and down
- Start rotating the rear radar
- Let the front radar follow the turret
- Driving, shooting, etc. etc.
For the observant reader, i said "one of the models" because i could not resist buying three of them for myselves...
It started all when i wanted to buy a Tamiya Gepard for a colleague of mine..
Before i knew it the seller asked me to build a full option model for him..!
The Tamiya Gepard is known as the Cheetah PRTL in the Netherlands and the owners served on one of these when he was in the army..
Here a picture of one of the models and it's box:
And the model itselves:
This is going to be quite some conversion as we have a lot of stuff that has to move controlled by the Openpanzer! Think about:
- Folding the rear radar up and down
- Start rotating the rear radar
- Let the front radar follow the turret
- Driving, shooting, etc. etc.
For the observant reader, i said "one of the models" because i could not resist buying three of them for myselves...