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You're very welcome. If you get the chance to visit Bovington, please do. it's an excellent museum with dozens of great tanks. Well worth a visit.
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COR WOW MANY THANKS Dale thats the first real TIGER 1 ive ever seen will it run ? or is he just static ?
CHRIS an jen
Nice shots of probably THE iconic tank……i always think the track replacement cables look a little weedy though….
Very much a runner Chris. They have their own Bovington Tiger day where they show it off…..
dalej2014
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They do look really thin don't they? Especially given the width of those tracks. Probably a really strong alloy, or something to do with the interleaved wheel arrangement?
Is it only me or does anyone else wonder why the Wehrmacht bothered with that Camo pattern though…..you can hardly see the difference between the shades…..I did it several years ago on a 250 using Modelmaster enamels and literally couldn’t see the colour difference when I removed the masking!
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AH hi again Dale but i know this my be a stupid question but ive often herd them wheels in the tracks called road wheels so was it capable of running on these wheels with out the tracks on ?
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Of course, given that there are something like half a dozen left in all, it being the only runner is not all that strange
No. In almost all tracked vehicles (there are a few exceptions), only the drive sprockets are powered: they pull the track around the wheels, and because of this, the track in turn pulls the whole vehicle forward. The roadwheels are essentially rollers on which the hull moves over the lower part of the tracks, which is flat on the ground.
If you break both tracks, the vehicle isn’t going anywhere (except maybe down, if it happens to be on a slope
). Break one track and the vehicle can turn on the spot, by moving the other track, but that’s it.dalej2014
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There's camo paint? lol. Yeah, fairly pointless tbh.
As far as I know Chris pretty well any tank with road wheels can be towed without tracks, but the drive sprocket drives the tracks, so may not drive without them. Hope that makes sense? I could be wrong, and welcome more experienced members corrections, clarifications etc.
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OK Jakko thanks for that info but it is a bit misleading calling them rd wheels as that where my thoughts were wrong but cheers for puttin me right an DaleOf course, given that there are something like half a dozen left in all, it being the only runner is not all that strange
No. In almost all tracked vehicles (there are a few exceptions), only the drive sprockets are powered: they pull the track around the wheels, and because of this, the track in turn pulls the whole vehicle forward. The roadwheels are essentially rollers on which the hull moves over the lower part of the tracks, which is flat on the ground.
If you break both tracks, the vehicle isn’t going anywhere (except maybe down, if it happens to be on a slope
chris
Not really Chris. Your car is probably front wheel drive, but the rear wheels are still road wheels….even though they cannot drive the car.
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YEA POINT taken Tim thanks
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dalej2014
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Good point. Actually a wheely good point. I'll get my coat...
boatman
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very witty Dale hahaGood point. Actually a wheely good point. I'll get my coat...
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That jokes tyredGood point. Actually a wheely good point. I'll get my coat...
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It used to be a bit more visible:
Still not great contrast, but more than it seems to have now. (This was taken in September 2002, though not the greatest quality because I used a simple point-and-click APS camera with a flash of pretty limited power.)
There was great uproar at the time, BTW, when the tank was unveiled in this camouflage and modellers etc. all over decried it as wrong. To which Bovington’s reply was that these were the colours they found under the later British/museum overpaints …
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Interesting to see "weathering" i.e. paint fading, even under museum conditions, and the twice a year Tiger day runs.