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Diamond trucks
keo
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Nordjylland, Denmark
Joined: January 30, 2006
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Posted: Friday, May 11, 2007 - 03:00 PM UTC
I need a little help with the Diamond truck please. I’ve recently bought Fonderie Miniature’s Diamond T980/981 M20 Tank transporter to make a Danish Tank transporter with a Centurion tank on it.
Going through my research on it however, I’ve noticed that the Danish Army used a Diamond truck for towing heavy artillery as well. According to my references it was a Diamond 4T M975A. Can anybody help me with further references on this version? Do any books exist on the Diamond truck? Are there any scale drawing showing the differences?
I am particularly interested as to the extend of any rebuild from a T980/981 to a M975A version like, is the frames of the chassis going to be changed? Does it take more than changing the mud guards and making a new steel body at the end?
Frenchy
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Rhone, France
Joined: December 02, 2002
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Posted: Friday, May 11, 2007 - 04:26 PM UTC
Wespe models has released a 1/48th scale kit labelled as "Diamond T975A" :

you can compare it to the picture of a T-975 :


The T-975 chassis is longer than the T980/981chassis (8.35 m vs 7.10 m)..
I've found some specs about the T-975 HERE

HTH

Frenchy
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