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New Abrams M1 IP from Panda!
Darkin
Joined: July 08, 2011
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Posted: Sunday, March 11, 2018 - 07:55 PM UTC
SEDimmick
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Posted: Sunday, March 11, 2018 - 08:24 PM UTC
Wonder if they fixed any of the issues from the regular M1
retiredyank
Joined: June 29, 2009
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Posted: Sunday, March 11, 2018 - 10:01 PM UTC
The two piece barrel is kind of a step backwards...
jwest21
Joined: October 16, 2006
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Posted: Sunday, March 11, 2018 - 10:02 PM UTC
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The two piece barrel is kind of a step backwards...
The one in my M1 kit was oval in cross-section instead of round. Definitely needs improved or replaced.
tnker101
Joined: November 30, 2007
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Posted: Monday, March 12, 2018 - 12:05 AM UTC
My tank!!!!! woohooo 
Vodnik
Joined: March 26, 2003
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Posted: Monday, March 12, 2018 - 01:19 AM UTC
All the errors from the M1 kit, plus a few new ones... For example: why did they change the shape of the blow off panels to rectangular?!... They were correct shape in the M1 kit and should be exactly the same in M1IP.
Also the gunner's sight housing is wrong for most M1IPs - they had the uparmored ones installed, not the original ones from the M1, which were used only on earliest IPs.
And instructions show that side "walls" for the mantlet come from the M1 kit. This simply means that the whole new mantlet is wrong shape - correct M1IP mantlet is lower at the front than the M1 one, so side parts should not be interchangeable...
Also the gunner's sight housing is wrong for most M1IPs - they had the uparmored ones installed, not the original ones from the M1, which were used only on earliest IPs.
And instructions show that side "walls" for the mantlet come from the M1 kit. This simply means that the whole new mantlet is wrong shape - correct M1IP mantlet is lower at the front than the M1 one, so side parts should not be interchangeable...
warlock109
Joined: February 05, 2004
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Posted: Monday, March 12, 2018 - 11:37 PM UTC
Pawel, you are wrong. M1IP blow off panels were not the same as the ones on the M1.
Tankrider
Joined: October 07, 2002
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 01:57 AM UTC
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Pawel, you are wrong. M1IP blow off panels were not the same as the ones on the M1.
Jerry,
Ok, I will ask the question: if the M1IP were not the same as the M1 panels, what were they like?
- Two square ones as found on the M1A1s?
- Different shapes than the trapezoidal ones found on the M1s?
- Something completely different??
Personally, I would not bet against Pawel. He is pretty good with his research on the M1 family.
JC
HermannB
Joined: October 14, 2008
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 02:26 AM UTC
I wonder if the distance between the fumne extractor and the mantlet is shorter as it is on the real M1 IP?
Frenchy
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 03:10 AM UTC
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Pawel, you are wrong. M1IP blow off panels were not the same as the ones on the M1.
Are you sure ?
http://www.network54.com/Forum/47209/thread/1501016476/last-1501237461/View+Thread
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H.P.
Jacques
Joined: March 04, 2003
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 04:06 AM UTC
Just to stir the pot on this specific topic, has anyone ever heard of this:
What I learned from the MATES section at camp Ripley, MN in the summer of 1996.
M1IP with a M256 120mm gun. The MNANG was transitioning from M60A3TTS to M1 series, and at this time were doing transition training on OLD M1's with M68 105mm gun. I am unsure how ling the transition period was going to take.
I was trained as a 63D (Tracked vehicle recovery specialist) in the Spring of 1996 at Camp Ripley. We had to learn to drive the M1 (for recovery purposes. We only had M88A1's and were training to recover M1A2's where their combat load was greater than the rating of the M88A1...hence the development of the M88A2 AND why we were learning to drive M1's...for recovery with a tank. Whatever, it was cool and we got to drive M1's). Anyhow, the training tank we used was an OLD vehicle (but an IP with the LONG turret, getting in the drivers hatch from the outside was interesting)but it had the M256 120mm on it (we kept getting lectured on it from the mechanics and the tankers on how great that gun was compared to the 105mm).
Just wondering if anyone had heard of this before or if it was a one off. I had some pictures of it, but have not re-located them yet. (1996 was still a year for film cameras.)
What I learned from the MATES section at camp Ripley, MN in the summer of 1996.
M1IP with a M256 120mm gun. The MNANG was transitioning from M60A3TTS to M1 series, and at this time were doing transition training on OLD M1's with M68 105mm gun. I am unsure how ling the transition period was going to take.
I was trained as a 63D (Tracked vehicle recovery specialist) in the Spring of 1996 at Camp Ripley. We had to learn to drive the M1 (for recovery purposes. We only had M88A1's and were training to recover M1A2's where their combat load was greater than the rating of the M88A1...hence the development of the M88A2 AND why we were learning to drive M1's...for recovery with a tank. Whatever, it was cool and we got to drive M1's). Anyhow, the training tank we used was an OLD vehicle (but an IP with the LONG turret, getting in the drivers hatch from the outside was interesting)but it had the M256 120mm on it (we kept getting lectured on it from the mechanics and the tankers on how great that gun was compared to the 105mm).
Just wondering if anyone had heard of this before or if it was a one off. I had some pictures of it, but have not re-located them yet. (1996 was still a year for film cameras.)
panamadan
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 05:46 AM UTC
IPs had three blow out panels-slept on them many a time.
Dan
Dan
Abbie939
Joined: February 10, 2007
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 06:08 AM UTC
Well I was all over a M1 IP in Topeka KS. And took a tape measure to the panels, and they were trapezoidal. I think I shared them with you John years ago.
Removed by original poster on 03/14/18 - 05:20:07 (GMT).
avenue
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 10:20 AM UTC
there are already to many M-1 kits,the only variant is missing is the original prototype.
Vodnik
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 10:22 AM UTC
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Well I was all over a M1 IP in Topeka KS. And took a tape measure to the panels, and they were trapezoidal. I think I shared them with you John years ago.
Unfortunately that tank was a small turret upgraded M1, not a true, long turret, M1IP, so those who believe that panels were different between the types, won't accept that as a proof.
The problem with large turret M1IPs is that as far as I know very few of them are available in museums or as gate guards. The Army kept most of them in storage for future use or conversions. So most tanks available for measurements are PVs, XM1s or small turret M1s (including those upgraded to "almost IP" configuration, like the one in Topeka).
Vodnik
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 10:40 AM UTC
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Pawel, you are wrong. M1IP blow off panels were not the same as the ones on the M1.
They were the same shape. Maybe they differed in some details, but they were the same shape.
knewton
Joined: June 19, 2013
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 01:11 PM UTC
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there are already to[o] many M-1 kits,the only variant is missing is the original prototype.
If you want kits of prototypes, how about the 140mm CATTB, please?! And, can there really be too many kits?
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Tankrider
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 07:03 PM UTC
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Quoted TextWell I was all over a M1 IP in Topeka KS. And took a tape measure to the panels, and they were trapezoidal. I think I shared them with you John years ago.
Unfortunately that tank was a small turret upgraded M1, not a true, long turret, M1IP, so those who believe that panels were different between the types, won't accept that as a proof.
The problem with large turret M1IPs is that as far as I know very few of them are available in museums or as gate guards. The Army kept most of them in storage for future use or conversions. So most tanks available for measurements are PVs, XM1s or small turret M1s (including those upgraded to "almost IP" configuration, like the one in Topeka).
Those almost 900 M1IPs became M1A2s/M1A2SEPs in the mid 90's - mid 2000's. If you look closely at pictures of the SEPs, you can see some key indicators that they are rebuilt/upgraded M1s.
John
Vodnik
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 09:23 PM UTC
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Those almost 900 M1IPs became M1A2s/M1A2SEPs in the mid 90's - mid 2000's. If you look closely at pictures of the SEPs, you can see some key indicators that they are rebuilt/upgraded M1s.
John
Yep, I know that. As you know Dragon SEP kit comes with correct early M1 hull features, like straight headlight guards and front fenders without embossed stiffeners
aleluya
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Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 09:41 PM UTC
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Quoted TextPawel, you are wrong. M1IP blow off panels were not the same as the ones on the M1.
They were the same shape. Maybe they differed in some details, but they were the same shape.
any photo evidence?
system
Joined: November 24, 2008
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Posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 - 12:49 PM UTC
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Quoted TextPawel, you are wrong. M1IP blow off panels were not the same as the ones on the M1.
Are you sure ?
http://www.network54.com/Forum/47209/thread/1501016476/last-1501237461/View+Thread
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H.P.
Not sure I'd trust these drawings. Didn't the IPM1 also have a longer mantlet front-to-back than the M1 (similar to the M1A1/A2) to compensate for the extra turret armour? Hard to tell, but it looks like Panda moved the whole gun mount forward but kept the short mantlet just like Tamiya did on their original very inaccurate M1A1 kit.
Vodnik
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Posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 - 01:12 PM UTC
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Quoted TextQuoted TextPawel, you are wrong. M1IP blow off panels were not the same as the ones on the M1.
They were the same shape. Maybe they differed in some details, but they were the same shape.
any photo evidence?
Any photo evidence to the contrary?
To be honest it is difficult to clearly prove it using photos. As I mentioned before it is hard to find any long turreted M1IP today to take photos and measurements. All clear "modern" photos and measurements were taken from small turreted M1s and they prove without any doubts that those tanks had trapezoid shape panels. But even though we can be certain of the shape of those panels, they still look rectangular in most photos... It is caused by the fact that the difference of length of both ends of panels was quite small and when photos were taken from various angles, the perspective makes that difference almost disappear.
So for long turret M1IPs we have to rely on far from perfect "period" photos. All I have in my collection were taken from various odd angles, or show just part of the panel... But by comparing those imperfect images of IP panels with good photos of original trapezoid M1 panels, I came to the conclusion - one that I'm fully convinced to - that IP panels were identical to original M1 ones.
Vodnik
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Posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 - 01:15 PM UTC
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Not sure I'd trust these drawings.
Indeed those drawings from the Hunnicutt's "Abrams" book are not entirely reliable
Unlike most drawings in other Hunnicutt's books, which were based on official drawings and blueprints, those for Abrams for obvious reasons could not have been based on such reliable references, as they were (and probably still are) considered confidential.
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