Post by El Caracho on Jan 10, 2018 17:31:14 GMT
Here's my Cobi MOC rendition of a British Valentine Mk-I tank:
The Valentine tank was one of the WW2 tanks produced in relevant numbers, but is not yet available from Cobi as an official set, so I decided to build a MOC to complete my collection of WW2 tanks.
The frontal visor slit is "brick-build"
I made the custom decals by printing them with a laser printer on adhesive transparent and white foil, and then cut them out with a cutter knife
(Unfortunately the printer cannot print white on tranparent foil).
The end of the exhaust pipe is one of the model's best features :-)
I had to scrap at least the following sets for parts to build this MOC:
2x 3011 "Matilda II" or 2477 "Tiger 131" for the 4 3x3 quarter circle bricks for the turret
1x 3002 "Cromwell" for the 8 tan gears
1x 2339 "Kübelwagen" or 24093 "Jeep Willys MB North Africa 1943" for the 4 larger road wheels
Either 1x 2451 "Panzer III", 2465 "StuG III", 2482 "StuG IV", 2508 "Panzer IV" or 2509 "Jagdpanzer IV" for the 8 smaller road wheels
My goal was to use the 3x3 quarter circle bricks for all 4 corners of the turret, even at the front, so I had to find a way to
still mount a gun barrel to the turret and fit minifigures inside the turret:
I had to use the "single stud on demand" part on some of the wheel pins to get the correct distance for the road wheels (because the needed 1-stud-wide plates with wheels pins of correct lenght and distance do not exist yet)
Here's how I mounted the suspension for the road wheels (I used these small "ring" pieces on the pins for the upper small track rollers, so the suspension parts don't block the rotation of these rollers):
I wanted to build the most accurate shape of the back hull, so the slanted side panels for the rear hull are mounted quite sophistically, although on the finished model you almost won't notice them :-(
I wanted the frontal armour plates to be lower than the mudguards and the frontal gears as far to the front as possible, so I had to find a way to slant the frontal armour plates as close as possible to the mounting of the frontal gears.
Ok, that's about everything that comes to my mind describing this MOC ... enjoy
The Valentine tank was one of the WW2 tanks produced in relevant numbers, but is not yet available from Cobi as an official set, so I decided to build a MOC to complete my collection of WW2 tanks.
The frontal visor slit is "brick-build"
I made the custom decals by printing them with a laser printer on adhesive transparent and white foil, and then cut them out with a cutter knife
(Unfortunately the printer cannot print white on tranparent foil).
The end of the exhaust pipe is one of the model's best features :-)
I had to scrap at least the following sets for parts to build this MOC:
2x 3011 "Matilda II" or 2477 "Tiger 131" for the 4 3x3 quarter circle bricks for the turret
1x 3002 "Cromwell" for the 8 tan gears
1x 2339 "Kübelwagen" or 24093 "Jeep Willys MB North Africa 1943" for the 4 larger road wheels
Either 1x 2451 "Panzer III", 2465 "StuG III", 2482 "StuG IV", 2508 "Panzer IV" or 2509 "Jagdpanzer IV" for the 8 smaller road wheels
My goal was to use the 3x3 quarter circle bricks for all 4 corners of the turret, even at the front, so I had to find a way to
still mount a gun barrel to the turret and fit minifigures inside the turret:
I had to use the "single stud on demand" part on some of the wheel pins to get the correct distance for the road wheels (because the needed 1-stud-wide plates with wheels pins of correct lenght and distance do not exist yet)
Here's how I mounted the suspension for the road wheels (I used these small "ring" pieces on the pins for the upper small track rollers, so the suspension parts don't block the rotation of these rollers):
I wanted to build the most accurate shape of the back hull, so the slanted side panels for the rear hull are mounted quite sophistically, although on the finished model you almost won't notice them :-(
I wanted the frontal armour plates to be lower than the mudguards and the frontal gears as far to the front as possible, so I had to find a way to slant the frontal armour plates as close as possible to the mounting of the frontal gears.
Ok, that's about everything that comes to my mind describing this MOC ... enjoy
