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That hull really looks like a King Tiger, albeit not so well armoured.

Andy won't be half paqinting a regiment; he'll paint one figure and copy and paste it.

Now up to a total of 158 6mm foot, plus the small quantity of cavalry, 13 6mm in all, I mentioned earlier.

http://www.looseasswargamers.org.uk/vie ... 812#p30812

The results for the first quarter of the year are...
21 x 6mm aircraft
72 x 6mm figures

Also finished a 10mm fort & 4 adobe buildings.

Hello Slug.

Iain

Hi EB

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:51 pm That hull really looks like a King Tiger, albeit not so well armoured.

Not even remotely as well armoured… There's a Leopard 1 sawn in half for instructional purposes at Shrivenham College and the armour is paper-thin by post-war standards - about the same level of protection as a Panther (the armour plate is about 50-70mm, but well-sloped).

Post-war West Germany was rather evangelical about not appearing 'offensive', so they decided to build a tank with a good gun, minimal armour-protection and using high mobility to protect itself. The French went the same way with their AMX-30.

The trouble with this theory was that it was bollocks...

An Aussie tanker said 80mm, but maybe that is a slope measurement. Yes, Mr Fisher could be excused that recipie; the huns had no excuse. I could never work out why they sold so well.

Bribery. Same reason the Alpha-Jet outsold the infinitely superior BAe Hawk.

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:52 am An Aussie tanker said 80mm, but maybe that is a slope measurement. Yes, Mr Fisher could be excused that recipie; the huns had no excuse. I could never work out why they sold so well.

It's 80mm at the point on the gun-mantlet immediately surrounding the gun. 70mm for most of the rest of the turret-front and 50-70mm for the glacis. I seem to remember that when the slope is factored in it adds up to 110mm. Early models (Leopard 1 and 1A1) were less well-armoured and had applique rubber/steel sandwich armour stuck onto the turrets (becoming the 1A1A1, as seen here - the upgraded Dutch Leopard 1-V, also seen here, had the same applique armour pack, as did the late-model Leopard 1A5). The Aussies had a version of the Leopard 1A4, which was visually identical to the Canadian Leopard C1 (1A3). That version had slightly better turret armour than the basic 1A1.