[sg] Hover tank

> From the "I'll get around to it when I feel like it" pile I recently
 I
was wondering if anyone else has built one of these and if there were any
pictures out there of one completed.

Here's the real problem, I'm not sure which one this is. It might be a
SF25-26a, but since there's no pic on the web site I don't know for
sure. It comes in about 3 main pieces, the hover skirt (notable feature is the
propulsion jets on each rear corner), the hull (basically rectangular with a
smooth, rounded, sloped front glacis and a rounded rear with various
hatches and bits on it), and the turret (very thin approximately 1/4"
thick, with a hemisphere on the right front corner [possibly a PDS turret],
and a commander hatch on the left side in the middle). It comes with a metal
barrel for the main gun with a angle cut on the business end, and a
tri-barrel which I assume is the PDS or the commander's weapon, and two
metal hatch covers. One "feature" that was the cause of major frustration and
which will probably be remembered by anyone who put one of these
together is that the gun mantlet/mounting piece is about twice as wide
as the turret is thick. A fact I didn't appreciate until I started matching up
pieces. It's possible (and I've thought this more than once) that I'm missing
a lower turret piece, but at this point I'm going to continue on as
I've already scratch-built a lower turret half.

So if anyone knows of any pics of this tank, or can positively ID it, or has
one that they've put together I'd like to swap info.

Bill

> From the "I'll get around to it when I feel like it" pile I recently

From the description, this is NOT actually a GZG model; I think what you've
got is one of the ones that GeoHex made as one of their own products, though
the design is based on one of our Future Wars 6mm tanks. I can't recall
whether it ever had a lower turret half or not. KR did once send me an example
of it (it's around somewhere up at the workshop I think!), but the casting was
not great and it would have taken a significant amount of time to get it in a
condition where I could make moulds for it over here, so I never put it into
UK production. Maybe one day I'll dig it out and spend the time to mould it
up, if there is a demand!