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Kesa Tiho
Silly looking truck 👍

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat, of course!

Spanjaard
first row available? great, ready for the scratch master class 🙂
and a bit of fun too, of course 😉

gorby
Welcome to the build mates.
Kesa: Sillier the better for me. I go out of my way to find odd things to build. 🙂

David Taylor
Back in.

gorby
👍 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
I love the armoured cars and Gorbs' projects - I have to watch this too 👍

gorby
Welcome Lukasz. I hope the end result won't disappoint. 🙂

CaptGPF
I often winder how you choose your next topic for scratch builds! The subject matter is always something different or interesting - and the builds just phenomenal! Taking a seat to see the next creation!

Greg Baker
Oh, this is cool. I scratch-built an armoured car too - nothing this intense though - so I'm super-keen to see this one shape up.

gorby
Thanks both. 👍
Capt: for this one I went looking for something Norwegian, because that was the subject of the GB for Jens. It had to be something I'd be able to scratch build (as I was too tight to open my wallet to buy something. 😄 ). Normally it's because I just stumble on an interesting picture. 🙂

John Hughes
Another case of Norway nul points?

Alec K
Splendid, I am in 👍

gorby
😄 😄
Glad you could both join in. 🙂

gorby
New photos start from number 13
Build stage is now complete, just need to get the crayons out to colour it in. 😉

Jennifer Franklin
Foilowing 👀

Palo M
Welcome! Top quality kit so far.

Mick Burdett
What kit is it Palo?

Palo M
Made by Meng

Mick Burdett
Are you using workable tracks with kit?

Jakko ‌
> A bit worried about the tracks, that looks like a lot of work.

I just took a look at the instructions, and they seem OK. Use the jig that Meng gives you to ensure the links are lined up correctly and insert the pins like the instructions tell you, and I suspect it will be fairly painless. At least you won't have to glue a whole bunch of parts together for each link.

My tip would be to do this in stages while you're working on the rest of the model: a bit now, a bit later, etc. If you wait until the rest of the model is finished and "have to" do the whole track at once, you'll probably get bored senseless 🙂

Palo M
Mick - yes, using the tracks that were in the kit.

Jakko - that sounds like a reasonable idea. I'm quite far along the construction of the lower hull, will build some links of the tracks.

Jakko ‌
The way I normally do this is to put links together until I get bored with the job, then put them aside again and continue later 🙂 I would also advise to first clean up all the links and put them in a container, rather than cleaning up some and putting them together, then cleaning up some more, etc.

Ben M
I have to do one now and again because they are so nice.

Palo M
Exactly right, Ben! It comes together almost by itself, I feel like an observer in the construction 🙂 .

Ben M
The new tamiya stuff is very precise. When I built the Matilda ii, I would have difficulty taking parts apart after dry fitting so I could glue them. I was amazed.

Finn
Following

Jennifer Franklin
me too

Dietmar Bogatzki
taking a seat

Landlubber Mike
Thanks guys! Hope I make it worth your while!

Nicolas
Following

Neil
Me too 👍

Landlubber Mike
Welcome aboard Nicolas and Neil! Thanks for your interest.

Lochsa River
have to sit in...this is in the stash...I was looking at it yesterday...

Lochsa River
A tip...others who built this kit had trouble around the cockpit....

Guy Rump
Following! 👍

Carlo
Nice, a flying boat. Hope this(or Sword) kit gets re-issued one day soon..

Alec K
Taking a seat.

Landlubber Mike
Thanks for following guys. Lochsa, you're right about the canopy. There are fit issues in general with this kit - most of which aren't too difficult to deal with - but the canopy is a bit of a mess. I'm not really looking forward to that part of the build.

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here too!

Landlubber Mike
Thanks for joining Robert!

Michael Kohl
Didn't know the subject, like the projekt, love to follow.

Landlubber Mike
Thanks Michael - glad to have you along!

Ben M
💺

Zbynek Honzik
Taking a seat!

Landlubber Mike
Thanks Ben and Zbynek, welcome aboard! Thanks for looking in!

Alec K
Nice detailing and progress 👍

Transall NG
A nice and strong landing gear !

Landlubber Mike
Thanks guys! Transall, it seems a lot stronger than the kit parts which were made from pretty thin plastic.

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful work, congrats!

Landlubber Mike
Thank you Pietro! Still a long way to go. In the middle of priming the fuselage and having gap and other problems popping up. This is the build that never seems to end 🙁

gorby
Amazing work on the landing gear.

Landlubber Mike
Thanks Gorby! This was my first time trying to scratch build landing gear. Took me probably 20 hours 🙁 I ended up using Albion Alloys brass tubing for a lot of it, along with music wire, copper wire, plastic tubing, and other materials. I've bumped it a few times already and it is very stable so fingers crossed it makes it to the finish line!