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Japanese radio-controlled tank

Another novelty scratchbuilding opportunity from Modern Mechanix:

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to say which end is supposed to be the front on it. The gun in the "turret" faces to the left, but so does the exhaust on the muffler.

Pat

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Pat Flannery
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Pat Flannery wrote

There's a photo of the same vehicle on the 'experimental' page of the Japan section of the TANKS! website

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; the site owner says that he has no information about the vehicle, but does point out that the track and running gear are based on the Fordson Gun-Tractor used as a prime mover by the Japanese army.

There's a picture of the Fordson Gun-Tractor in the 'prime movers' section which shows the larger wheel at the rear, beside the driver; that makes it look that the pointy end of the radio controlled thing is the front and that both gun and exhaust point forward.

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Rik Shepherd

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