ApplesauceBandit

I watched the whole thing just to spite you.
 
It's pretty much sargon talking about The Battle of Berkley for 20min, accompanied with the relevant footage.

Test server has updated again it looks like.  The only "buffs" to light tanks are the ammo capacity nerfs aren't as bad now.  Light tanks apparently don't need more view range than mediums or heavies.

Contest Idea: Wehrapocalypse now
 
You work for a model-making company, and have been instructed to come up with a new line of tank/afv models to sell to punters. Unfortunately, the market for german tanks (ie: the biggest market in the industry) is completely filled - with manufacturers making every single variant of german AFV for which any historical documentation exists, usually in at least three paint schemes. Digging desperately through the archives one night for a varient which has not already been made, you have a flash of inspiration: why not design your own?
 
The tank/afv you will present to the board must be plausibly German (or modified by Germans, captured by Germans etc), and must fit into a 1939-1946 time period. It must be recogniseably teutonic in terms of design and construction, but must use the minimum number of existing parts and components in order to make a design/trademark filing easier and prevent your competition from reusing their old moulds. The history of the tank/afv must be plausible, and must include some reason why it hasn't been discovered up until now. This means that the design should be for a 'lost' prototype, limited production type or exotic conversion of a captured design done in very small numbers.
 
The design must be appealing to punters for some reason, which must be explained in the pitch. It should also be detailed enough so that said punters can get their wehraboner one by drooling over all the technical specifications and fancy-sounding german equipment names.
 
The winner of the competition will be judged by a board of wehraboo and model experts (I'm nominating EE and Walter to start with, please provide other suggestions), with part of the prize being that someone will try to slip the winning design into wikipedia in the hopes of getting it taken up by real-life model makers. The ultimate prize here would be to buy your own model back in 1:35 scale to mount of a plinth. For this reason it would be great for each pitch to include faked documentation, design drawings, archival footage and the like for inclusion into wiki.

The shooty end of a KV-7
 

 
Stronk driving

The shooty end of a KV-7
 

 
Stronk driving

BMP-3 production at Kurganmashzavod
 

   Part of BMP-3 hull bottom.
 
More:

 

something like this
 

There are several methods you can do this with, including the one that you have shown above.
 
The method you are considering will leave several tabs that you have to remove by hand or by machine. You can make those tabs fairly small, too. It will leave you with hand finished spots on your part.
 
The second method is to take your work and drill the initial holes in it before you do any other machining. You can then take your work and bolt it down to a fixture plate, and machine the rest. This might require removing the vice from the mill table, and I don't know if people would frown upon that where you are. You might also be able to mount the fixture plate in the vice, it depends on the equipment. Also, you are then expecting those two screws to take all the side load from machining.
 
The third option is to use a work piece thick enough to clamp in the vice and still have enough material sitting proud of the jaws to machine your part. You can machine the entire part in the first set up, and then make a set of soft jaws that will contour the part for when you flip it over and face the back down to the correct thickness. The downside is that you waste more material, and it takes more time, but you will have machined every surface to exactly what you want.
 
All of these methods are fairly common practices in machine shops, and there are definitely several more that I am missing.
 
Additionally, you could get most of the checking done with a .45 pointed chamfer tool. It wouldn't cleanly terminate at your boundaries, but it would be close.

Leaving tabs is the usual method - I'd recommend finishing the surface of the buttplate and the holes before cutting the circumference, and leaving the tabs for manual removal with a hacksaw and file. If you try and remove the tabs with the mill it'll probably move, and an unrestrained part next to the endmill will end up with a nasty ding which'll ruin your finish.

Still messing around with how exactly it'll look, but I think I'll take advantage of the CNC mill we've got here at uni and make the replacement buttplate from aluminum.  Metalworking is something I'm still pretty new to, so I'm trying to figure out how I could get this done.  Due to it being elliptical in shape, a vice wouldn't hold it in place very well.  I figure what would likely work best is machining the outline of the piece out, but keeping a few tabs here and there so it's still  attached to the stock material (and thus, the vice).  Later, I could just machine those bits out and remove what's left by hand.  Wanting to just make sure this sounds plausible before I get too far into this.  Plan B is just to bolt it onto something else that I'll put in a vice since I'm drilling a couple holes in this anyways.
 
We've not got anything for knurling here, so I'll probably just give it a smooth surface or something, or perhaps just thin horizontal lines.  Below is just the tab idea mocked up in 3ds max (ignore that checkering pattern, won't be what I give it).
 

People seem to have sniffed out Comey's private twitter account.
 
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-almost-certainly-james-comey-s-twitter-account-1793843641

Text here links to animated version of model below of mosul dam failure

 
Another model
 
 
Video of this one
 

Theresa May signs letter to trigger Brexit
 
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39422353

Ran by my uncle's a bit ago, will have this guy waiting for me when I'm done with classes this semester.  The thing's got a full choke and my uncle seemed fairly confident that they used 2 3/4" shot with it to blast birds.  Will doublecheck with a fired shell regardless.  I'll probably replace the butt plate too since that rubber is all cracked and dry, but the gun otherwise seems just fine.
 
 

 
 
Found this handy link through google, and I feel safe saying that the 1897 I've got is indeed damascus steel.
Link for in depth site over damascus steel here
 
I did find out that double barreled 12 guage shotgun is actually damascus steel, or more specifically, the laminated steel sort (third pic).  I don't plan to ever shoot that one or the damascus 1897.  I'm wary of the condition of the double barrel regardless and if I've got two 1897s, I'd rather use the one of lesser value.
 

Uh, Mr. Ryan, you might want to re-phrase that.
 
 

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/trolls-tear-down-he-will-not-divide-us-liverpool-flag-after-just-one-day/
 
Season 4 of HWNDU is over, another win for /hwndu/.  Shia moved it to the UK because he deemed the US unsafe, but weaponized autism is a global threat.
 

 
Would these posts be better here, the Trump thread, or elsewhere?

There was a lot of stuff there to take in, but I think this is my favorite part:
 

Meant to post this last night, but the HWNDU stream was moved again, this time to some flagpole in the middle of nowhere, with only the sky and flag in frame.  /pol/ still captured the flag in roughly 24 hours, using plane traffic, stars, ambient sounds, and playing marco polo with car horns to find it.  This is weaponized autism.  It was on some private property near Greeneville, TN.


Was replaced with a MAGA hat and a "Alt-right is alright" shirt, though shia's crew took it down within about 20 minutes.
 
Greentext in spoiler

Maddow got stumped hard.  Hyped up having Trump's tax returns, only to have 2 pages of his 2005 stuff saying he made $150 million and paid $38 million in taxes.  Even CNN is saying Maddow was stupid for hyping this nothingburger up as much as she did.  It's labelled as a client copy too, so some people are theorizing it was Trump making another move in his game of 6D chess.

Obama's was 19%, MSNBC Comcast is 24%.

Maddow got stumped hard.  Hyped up having Trump's tax returns, only to have 2 pages of his 2005 stuff saying he made $150 million and paid $38 million in taxes.  Even CNN is saying Maddow was stupid for hyping this nothingburger up as much as she did.  It's labelled as a client copy too, so some people are theorizing it was Trump making another move in his game of 6D chess.

Obama's was 19%, MSNBC Comcast is 24%.

Maddow got stumped hard.  Hyped up having Trump's tax returns, only to have 2 pages of his 2005 stuff saying he made $150 million and paid $38 million in taxes.  Even CNN is saying Maddow was stupid for hyping this nothingburger up as much as she did.  It's labelled as a client copy too, so some people are theorizing it was Trump making another move in his game of 6D chess.

Obama's was 19%, MSNBC Comcast is 24%.

Maddow got stumped hard.  Hyped up having Trump's tax returns, only to have 2 pages of his 2005 stuff saying he made $150 million and paid $38 million in taxes.  Even CNN is saying Maddow was stupid for hyping this nothingburger up as much as she did.  It's labelled as a client copy too, so some people are theorizing it was Trump making another move in his game of 6D chess.

Obama's was 19%, MSNBC Comcast is 24%.

Meant to post this last night, but the HWNDU stream was moved again, this time to some flagpole in the middle of nowhere, with only the sky and flag in frame.  /pol/ still captured the flag in roughly 24 hours, using plane traffic, stars, ambient sounds, and playing marco polo with car horns to find it.  This is weaponized autism.  It was on some private property near Greeneville, TN.


Was replaced with a MAGA hat and a "Alt-right is alright" shirt, though shia's crew took it down within about 20 minutes.
 
Greentext in spoiler

Meant to post this last night, but the HWNDU stream was moved again, this time to some flagpole in the middle of nowhere, with only the sky and flag in frame.  /pol/ still captured the flag in roughly 24 hours, using plane traffic, stars, ambient sounds, and playing marco polo with car horns to find it.  This is weaponized autism.  It was on some private property near Greeneville, TN.


Was replaced with a MAGA hat and a "Alt-right is alright" shirt, though shia's crew took it down within about 20 minutes.
 
Greentext in spoiler