swathdiver

Hey Fellas!

I've been kicking around doing some scratchbuilt tanks since nobody makes them in 1/16 scale. Where would I get the plans for them? I've seen guys with plans for the Panther where they simply made a trace of the slab of armor and traced it right onto the material to be cut. I'd like something like that but anything is a start. Anything you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

wackywheelz

paper models? heaps can be found on P2P programs, just look for "Papermodels@Emule" or just "paper model ______ " (insert tank name). Theres tons out there!!

swathdiver

P2P??? Like Limewire? [sm=confused.gif]

wackywheelz

Shareaza!!

Kazaa was great, then Limewire, now its Shareaza

ah64

I would love to make a Ferdinand......
Think They have that in a paper model?

wackywheelz

Would an Elephant do?

(Papermodels@emule) [GPM 147] [Armor] SdKfz 184 Tiger I (Elephant).pdf - 39mb

Have attached some pics of the complete paper model in 1/25, and an example of the plans

ksoc

Here are some site I've run across

http://cardmodelshop.com/store2/prod...fb9eab23e9369e

http://www.papermodelstore.com/advan...8229a6&x=0&y=0

If you look at Merle Mohring's Elephant on our site, he started out with a paper model, and scaled it to fit an old King Tiger chassis he had. In first few photos you can see the paper pattern's camouflage still on the tank.

http://web.mac.com/ksoc/Special_Proj..._184_Ferd.html

Good luck

Wozwasnt

I bought a cheap 1/35 scale Jagdpanther and made plans from that-

heavyaslead

If you have ACAD you can make a very accurate as I did for the Zrinyi:

http://www.sead.us/Zrinyi-Eric-Views.pdf

swathdiver

I looked, no M18 Hellcats. []

ah64

SURE DOES!!!!!! Thansk Very Much WACKYWHEELS

wackywheelz

No problems mate, glad to be of assistance

pzrwest

Wozwasnt can you give me the measurement I have indicated on your drawing? I need to check an enlargement of a paper model I enlarged from a printout of the pdf tank file

wackywheelz

Whipped up a diagram of a 1/16 Jagdpanther

pzrwest

Thanks whacky

Wozwasnt

I got almost the same as Wacky's - 343.5mm

pzrwest

Well both are within reason as long as I apply the same resizeing to everything no one will notice a 2-3 mm difference

wackywheelz

pzrwest

I knew it LOL [:-] very funny whacky

Wozwasnt

If you're printing out PDF's then make sure that the plans are all in the same direction ie the front of the tank is always facing the top.

A lot of printers distort an image (usually length ways) as the paper feed isn't 100% accurate. Even top end printers can have this problem.