So... Would anyone want to try their hand at scratch-building or kit-bashing an ATL multi-variant version of the Romfell armoured car ?Any news on the Austro-Hungarian Romfell ? Or my weird ATL derivatives of it ?
The perfect tank for Elbonia.
The "Super Semple" or "Super Bob Semple" was a further development of the famous "Bob Semple tank". Trying to upgrade it's firepower and mobility, and eyeing the TOG project, the new version was created by building a new hull of increased height, width and lengh. A new engine was installed and a turret "borrowed" from the australian Sentinel tank program. Unable to created a full-lengh track system, the final solution was to sligthly lengthen the original tracks and then use two sets per side. The new model now had a mass of over 30 tons and required 10 men to operate, being armed with a 6dpr gun and 7 machine guns.
On it's first mobility test, the tank managed to move only 15km in one hour, before the transmission broke down and the engine overheated. While trying out repairs, it was decided to test the turret and the main gun. The first 3 shots, firing forward, appeared to go well, despite causing considerable vibration to the whole tank. However, when firing with the turret traversed 90º to the side, 2 shots were enough to cause structural damage to the turret mount and the entire tank structure around it. The tests were stopped, the programm being latter terminated.
To be honest, I'm mostly just impressed that the thing made it to the testing area at all.
Well, at least it was influential enough to be the ancestor of the mammoth tank.
The "Super Semple" or "Super Bob Semple" was a further development of the famous "Bob Semple tank". Trying to upgrade it's firepower and mobility, and eyeing the TOG project, the new version was created by building a new hull of increased height, width and lengh. A new engine was installed and a turret "borrowed" from the australian Sentinel tank program. Unable to created a full-lengh track system, the final solution was to sligthly lengthen the original tracks and then use two sets per side. The new model now had a mass of over 30 tons and required 10 men to operate, being armed with a 6dpr gun and 7 machine guns.
On it's first mobility test, the tank managed to move only 15km in one hour, before the transmission broke down and the engine overheated. While trying out repairs, it was decided to test the turret and the main gun. The first 3 shots, firing forward, appeared to go well, despite causing considerable vibration to the whole tank. However, when firing with the turret traversed 90º to the side, 2 shots were enough to cause structural damage to the turret mount and the entire tank structure around it. The tests were stopped, the programm being latter terminated.
It needs more turrets. Yes, we really do want the A1E1 Semple Independent.
The "Super Semple" or "Super Bob Semple" was a further development of the famous "Bob Semple tank". Trying to upgrade it's firepower and mobility, and eyeing the TOG project, the new version was created by building a new hull of increased height, width and lengh. A new engine was installed and a turret "borrowed" from the australian Sentinel tank program. Unable to created a full-lengh track system, the final solution was to sligthly lengthen the original tracks and then use two sets per side. The new model now had a mass of over 30 tons and required 10 men to operate, being armed with a 6dpr gun and 7 machine guns.
On it's first mobility test, the tank managed to move only 15km in one hour, before the transmission broke down and the engine overheated. While trying out repairs, it was decided to test the turret and the main gun. The first 3 shots, firing forward, appeared to go well, despite causing considerable vibration to the whole tank. However, when firing with the turret traversed 90º to the side, 2 shots were enough to cause structural damage to the turret mount and the entire tank structure around it. The tests were stopped, the programm being latter terminated.
It was carried by a tank transporter
I actually started work on something like that, but the more I did the more ridiculous it became so I just gave up...
Based on an old Australia joke. An American GI boasts about his home state of Texas, "It's so large it takes a train three days to cross it!" To which an Australian digger listening replies, "Yeah, we got trains that slow as well..."
Not bad, but missing an RWS with an MG/grenade launcher, smoke dispensers, and maybe Trophy-like APS. Oh, and the SAM system can be a dual type, like the Pantsir, with one or two cannons.
WOW! A Leclerc turret and a Crotale NG turret grafted on... something! Niiiice!
Based on an old Australia joke. An American GI boasts about his home state of Texas, "It's so large it takes a train three days to cross it!" To which an Australian digger listening replies, "Yeah, we got trains that slow as well..."
That is freaking nutty but I can see someone being crazy enough to try
Thanks! Looks like there's also a deviant page of the same artist... and wwwwat are those mini turrets on the Abrams...
Yep. I'm pretty sure I've seen those mini turrets but where... some prototype or canceled program...
