+1 foldered with the current Achilles
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I think it’s on the sides too.
Looks like it has the seems between the plates.
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I’m not entirely convinced because it doesn’t look like the studs are flush to the surface. I wouldn’t be surprised though if it maybe did have them at some point and that’s what caused the marks because they do seem to line up with where the seams would be.
A long time ago a user of the other game measured the armour plates of a surviving unit on display in France, the plates were 18mm thick with 17mm spacing.
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https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205206479
I want roof Achilles. I also assume it has extra armour cause it’s pretty stud-less?
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Interesting, thanks for this. Given how the design of the kit is much more refined compared to Berg’s original concept, it’s not hard to imagine that they could’ve upped the thickness too but I still need to try finding a definitive answer on whether the kits that saw use were actually American or British.
Just a later-production vehicle built after they stopped applying the side studs unfortunately, but they still had them on the front so they do occasionally have the frontal applique plate as seen on Chelsea. It’s just another part of what makes it so difficult to find examples of the kit either fully or partially fitted.
The roof armour is the modification I mentioned to Spr4yz further up the thread. As far as I can work out it was done by 86th Anti-Tank Regiment, attached to XII Corps, and shows up a few times.
I’ve got the plans for it somewhere.
There’s more in the Canadian Microfilms but I seem to have misplaced the link to those pages. If I find them I’ll post them here.
Also:
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Very interesting document. Nice to see official measurements matching the Veckring M10 shared by kuromori of the applique plates being 17mm.
Also interesting that it’s dated April '44 but then there doesn’t seem to be any appearance of roof armour until much later into the campaign. I’ll have to look further into M10 use in Italy and see what shows up there to compare between units.
im fine with it but it should go to all M10/M36 varaints cause this was a design feature to add on armor and it would look way better than the dumb track links