I know it may be a very very long shot, but does anybody have any pics or references of some of the two or three Kpz. 70 prototypes armed with the Rheinmetall 120mm gun?
All I could find are pics of the protoypes "mixed" by Dragon in their Black... kit.

I did not expect to, but got one of these through a friend, and I'm playing with the idea to build it as a what-if operational vehicle armed with the Rheinmetall gun instead of the missile one.
Kind of a "pre-Leopard" vehicle.

Apart from the lack of references, other concern I have is if the gun mantle width "as is" for for the missile gun would be enough to accomodate the trunnions for the 120mm gun.
Don't want to do major surgery to the base kit, but the mantle width looks a bit "narrow" to me, if you get what I mean..
Anyway, thanks for your help guys