Marmon Herrington CTMS-1TBI
Mexican Army WWII-era
- Scale:
- 1:35
- Status:
- Ideas
No kit, few pictures, one plan and a very-rare tank. My biggest challenge yet. The CTMS-TBI was one of the results of a continuous light tank development program by Marmon-Herrington from 1935-1942. Equipped with a 37mm main gun and three 0.30 cal MGs (one co-axial and two hull-mounted) the tank was hopelessly obsolete in regards the most advanced and powerful European designs and tactical doctrines. Most CTMS-TBI production was sold to the Netherlands but a very small number reached Latin-America, where 4-6 were operated by the Mexican Army.
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3 31 July 2015, 18:56
Mark KA fascinating and clearly a challenging project! Do you have George Bradford's scale drawing of this tank? If not, i would be happy to send you a scanned copy.
9 April 2021, 05:20
Luis AlvarezThanks Mark! Yes I do own Bradford's book. In fact, I took my templates from there. The thing is that the tracks are kind of unique.... It's been an ordeal and they had to coincide with the pitch of the handmade sprockets. I tried to sculpt them and then get resin copies, but this excedes by far my skills and the project is in my "incomplete projects" drawer now until I figure out the tracks issue.
4 May 2021, 23:32
Mark KThis does sound like an ordeal. I have to wonder whether there is a CAD/3D print solution (not that I have any technical abilities in that area).
5 May 2021, 02:13
Luis AlvarezYes, that could be a good solution! I do not own a 3D printer and the 3D printing services I tried ask me for a CAD design which I don't have or know how to do. Besides, we are talking about over 100 individual links or two very long "flexible" tracks which cost a lot more than a resin kit. Nevertheless, I recently contacted a friend of mine which owns a 3D manufacturing facility for industry and maybe he could let me play with one go his printers for a while... so I still believe!
5 May 2021, 14:21
Mark KI recently received the 3D-printed tracks that I ordered for my Hotchkiss H-39 project. They are amazing - four fully-articulated segments, so they only need to be joined twice on each side. The detail is outstanding, though they are expensive, and they will be rather fragile.
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7 May 2021, 00:50