VT-55 ARV 1:72

upper and lower hull

tracks

a lot of them small parts

some larger parts

Then you pay 45€ for a resin kit, these are the instructions, and the only parts resembling the parts given are the wheels and upper hull, most parts don't look like the drawing or are mounted in a complete different way... Sigh

thickness of the fenders ok on this side

but not on this side

some scraping later...

added the torsion bars.

fenders are a bit warped

pure gold in this case...

left rear was still a bit warped, but this is corrected now

Cleaning up the membranes in the wheel openings...

before(R) and after(L)

and the other side

baseplate of the working platform soldered

bottomside of the platform

almost finished the sides of the platform. Took me a while to figure out how these were mounted, but these are ingenious... one outer shell with raised detail, one inner shell with lowered detail and the railings, nicely fitting together

baseparts for the material boxes.. this is the easy part..

now I have to add a ton of these

like this... and when you take up these parts with tweezers... they are invisible...

made some progress clearing all the openings in the wheels... Over halfway...

platform almost ready

platform almost ready

platform almost ready

first box ready

first box ready

cut some (very) tiny pieces of solder

apply these to the corresponding places with a bit of flux and heat them up

minimal amount of tin where needed

apply some tin to the parts while at the fret and cut them as close to the edge as possible

add some flux, flas-ce the part in it and heat it up with the soldering iron... all done.

nice collection....

models cannot fly... unfortunately it came down as a tank...

restored, so far no holes drilled and copper bars added... hope it won't be a necessity

started dressing up and looking how the fit will be

started dressing up and looking how the fit will be

how the tracks are molded

tracks will be a real pain to clean, let alone to make em fit ....

first piece almost cleaned... 1.5h for this... still a lot to do...

Remade the support for the crane to get rid of the gaps

Better fit, crane itself is also better aligned

next problem, dozer blade in "up" position

remade the cylinder

and mounted, still needs to be cut at length

Cast cilinder removed

dry-fit

Opmerkingen

1 2 October 2019, 10:23

Bart Goesaert
managed to finish the tiny bits on the boxes... also added a small how to...

3 November 2019, 22:24

Scott Dutton
What you achieve in this scale is amazing

3 November 2019, 22:39

Bart Goesaert
Thx

4 November 2019, 06:44

Bart Goesaert
and the model took a plunge, with known result... started fixing it allready, but luckily i didn't apply the small PE and parts yet...

7 December 2019, 07:43

Thomas K.
respect! you are crazy! 😉

7 December 2019, 16:50

Bart Goesaert
I know, luckily the breaking points were rather clean... so cleaning this mess was rather straightforward. That cant be said about the tracks... these will be a major pain to clean, the outside for one half of the tracks is molded almost completely shut...

10 December 2019, 15:21

Alec K
This is quite a project Bart. The soldering alone would kill me 😄. Looks great so far. As far as tracks go, I say go for aftermarket set (please don't say it will cost more, I read how much you already paid for this kit😉 ). Cheers 👍

10 December 2019, 15:37

Bart Goesaert
Thx. The soldering went pretty fast imho... at least faster then I've thought it would be, with almost no lost parts too. I will try to save these, if it doesn't work out, maybe I'll take the tracks from my Su-122-54 in the meantime... This one has a deadline of four weeks for a groupbuild... Hope they accept naked kits...

10 December 2019, 17:04

Alec K
Well, if you have a deadline, it's a different story 👍

10 December 2019, 17:17

Bart Goesaert
threw in the towel and ordered these from ACE: [img1]