Hobarts' Funnies

[Dave Ward]

This reached the top of the queue.......................

1/72..........................

And this is the result of a 14hr+ overnight print - still in 1/72 - it will need careful clean up
The file is meant to be a resin print, but I gave it a go with FDM, and using organic supports.
I was annoyed to find that my spare reel of PLA was not grey, buy black - it makes no difference to printing, but grey looks better!
Dave

[Dave Ward]

Weasel, assembled & primed


After a lot of clearing up........................

Sherman ARK ( doesn't photo well in black PLA )
Dave

[Dave Ward]

Two more:

D8 ArmouredTractor


LVT-4 - Still have to work out which armament to fit.
This black PLA does not photograph well - I've got some grey PLA for when the black runs out.
I was looking for a Sherman DD - oddly I can't find a decent one! The best one has a collapsed flotation screen & looks OK, until you turn it round - no propellers!
Dave

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D8 ArmouredTractor

It looks like it aims to be a D6A The fairly steep cab rear fits with a D6A, the D7A had a less-steep one. Also no “collar” on the sloping deck in front of the driver’s “turret”, which means it’s not a D7A. The exhaust pipe is on the wrong side of the ridge line on the engine deck, though

These are 1:72 scale, right? If it is a D6A it should be about 8 cm long from the front of the dozer blade to the rear of the winch.

[Dave Ward]

Photos of the armoured bulldozers are few & far between, D6, D7 & D8 are quoted as the base vehicle, but no two 'dozers look the same - I've said 'D8' for my print, as that was what the original file was labelled as!
Apart from the MiniArt part armoured D7, the only other model I could find, in 1/35 was this


Sort of looks similar!
Dave

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Photos of the armoured bulldozers are few & far between

True, they’re not overly sexy vehicles to most war photographers, I guess.

D6, D7 & D8 are quoted as the base vehicle, but no two 'dozers look the same - I've said 'D8' for my print, as that was what the original file was labelled as!

It’s a common mistake, because they do look very much like The British and Canadian Armies used two armoured bulldozers types: the Caterpillar D6A and D7A, which look very similar at first glance; there was no armoured D8, except in US Navy service in the Pacific. The one in the photo you posted is a D7A: it has the air intake pipe on the sloping armour in front of the “turret” and the exhaust pipes for the starting motor (thin) and main engine (thick) on the left side of the engine deck, and a fairly steeply sloped rear to the cab.

This is a picture of a D6A at the front, with a row of D7As behind it:

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Apart from the MiniArt part armoured D7

The MiniArt 1:35 scale kits represent American armoured D7s, one with an “armored cab M2” and one with open-topped, improvised armour.

the only other model I could find, in 1/35 was this
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Sort of looks similar!

It does I have that kit (not built it yet), and it’s not bad. It’s a D7A, or at least, aims to be one — the base tractor is a D7, but the armour is slightly problematic — it has vertical sides to the cab when that’s a D6A feature, and the D7A had sloping ones instead, as shown in the boxtop illustration and the photo you posted. It also has the standard D7 bench and fuel tank inside the cab (like the Resicast model), when both the D6A and D7A had a single, elevating seat and totally different fuel and hydraulic tanks:

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This is a photo of that area from the last known surviving D6A with original features (I happen to know its owner ).

(Oh, and I only now noticed your model has sloping sides to the armour, so I guess that, as per usual, it’s a mixture of features resulting from the maker confusing the two types.)