Fixing Turrets so you can turn them but they can't fall off



When I play in games, either the tank turrets often come off when you touch them, and get lost in their boxes, or they don't move at all because the owner has glued them solid. Which is a shame.

So this is what I do for plastic and metal tanks, so the turret can be used without coming off:

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Anyone else do anything similar?

nah.turning turrets is for children

That's me!

Anyway, in any game where tanks are more vulnerable from side and rear hits but where there's some sort or reaction fire (I mean where you can shoot moving targets during your opponent's turn....as long as they're within a 45 degree arc or summat) then turret direction is a tactical decision, which adds to the game, I reckon. If you're playing Shermans going down the road to Arnham, or M4's passing villages on the way to Baghdad, it's also historically accurate. Don't you remember the Jeremy Clerkson programme where he pits his Range Rover against a tank? If a tank's trying to take a pot shot at a fast soft skin, you need it.



Anyway, they just look neat when you can turn them. It's aesthetic. Visual variety. There's something beautiful and very athletic-looking about a Valentine with it's turret at 45 degrees, just as there's something alien and very aggressive-looking about a Chally on point duty with its turret at 90 degrees.............oooooooh, I can feel a frisson just thinking about it.

And when you turn the turret you can make a whirring sound.

and the fall of shot can be seen!

by whom?

why the tank commander of course!

is there really a little person inside these tanks , amazing?

You could charge a premium on the paint job, K.
Particularly if the driver shouts in a tiny German comic-opera accent.

....and a nice percussive 'crump' as the enemy takes a hit of course......
I did try imagining all my tanks were StuGs or Jagdpanthers like most people....
('but Sir, the turrret won't turn' - 'Don't worry Tommy, we'll just swivel the tracks')
but the whirring got the better of me

it gets the better of everybody