Waffentrager

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Waffentrager, 1:100 scale (roughly), 15mm but not really. I started playing War Thunder again a little more than a year ago and was instantly crushed by this tiny terror that had emerged in my absence. Now it's my go-to thing to roll out at up to 8.0 because of its meme potential. I couldn't find any solid models of it, so this is my best shot at creating a printable functional model for 1:100 tabletop gaming. Big thanks to TigerAce1945 and m_bergman for their models; I print a lot of those and used several for scale comparison in testing this model. Barrel is secured to the turret using four 3x1mm cylinder magnets. I use a dab of superglue to get them fitted because this design is scaled up about 15% from my original concept during testing, so the magnets might not fit snug anymore. The turret is fixed to the body in the same way. You may have to drill out the holes in the sprockets on the tracks to fit with the bosses on the body; I didn't spend much time getting the tolerance there correct for easy assembly. I know the gun is within 2% of being correct because I can compare it to existing 1:100 injection molded models by zvezda and other companies, and the barrel steps and brake are as close as I can tell to accurate. The rest of this was designed entirely off some random drawings, front side, and top views I found in a Google image search. If you think the scale is off, please let me know and I'd be happy to adjust it differently and re-upload it. I couldn't find any actual dimensions on this thing, so it's made mostly by comparing it to other tanks visually in the War Thunder menu. Let me know if there's anything I can do to make this model more accurate or overall better; I'm open to suggestions and this is my first complete model, so I'm still learning. Enjoy! Edit 1: 'Member how it says this is a work in progress? One of these was curing yesterday when I posted this originally and I noticed on assembly that the gun wasn't even close to being the correct scale. So I did some minor edits. Rest assured, it's visibly extremely close if you already printed, but the fitment of the gun and magnets should be a lot tighter and more accurate with the model as of 1/8/2020. There will likely be more edits to follow because I haven't printed the current updates yet; I just wanted to get them on here so anyone downloading gets the most recent version.