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Robert Podkoński
Watching with pleasure and interest!

Villiers de Vos
Beautiful detailed work.

gorby
I'd like to see this one built. 🙂

Bozzer
I'll jump in for this one. That's gonna be a huge build! Obviously, lots of questions, but I'd rather see you build it, than type answers on here. Good luck mate 👍

Michael .
Grabs the popcorn and settles in...

bughunter
Watching!
If I remember right I used the manual of this kit to find answers for my questions during the build of the Aerobase strip down.
Good luck and have fun with it!

Michael Kohl
I am in too

koekje1968
Thank you for the comments!
Model is now completely finished and I am going to take some pictures of the result.

Bozzer
Definitely!
And we want dimensions and the whole 9 yards! 🙂

koekje1968
Hello everyone!!!
Just some new pictures.
I took so many pictures that I am going to make a youtube video of this. As soon as this video is online on Youtube I will post here!

Bozzer
Awesome! I look forward to it 🙂

koekje1968
Full built you can see on Youube
See Youtube video: Youtube Video

Bozzer
That, sir, is a formidable build!
At 80cm wingspan, it would definitely take over, my dining table!
I was honestly expecting around 60cm?
Kudos to you, for your efforts, and a medal should be awarded to your wife, for the countless hours, you dedicated, to the entire build 👍

Bob Hall
Can't read ya Bozz, ya got a YouTube video blocking ya !🤪

Bozzer
Gotta be something going on with SM, Bob? I didn't provide a link or anything? It's a bloody awesome video though 👍

Bob Hall
Oh I know, just being funny, been an on going issue for a few weeks now, but I read that the issue is being worked on.

gorby
I think you win this weeks prize for most heavy duty modelling tool. 😄
Looks a very interesting conversion.

Lenny Li
I think that kind of set up can tool a real bogie!!

Neuling
Watching .....................

Jakko ‌
> I think you win this weeks prize for most heavy duty modelling tool. 😄

Probably, yeah 🙂 It's a metalworking lathe, so a bit overkill for just turning down the seam on those wheels, but I didn't feel like aching fingers from scraping them down with a knife — I get those even when I hold them in a modelling vice, never mind just between my fingers.

> that kind of set up can tool a real bogie!!

Having seen a disassembled Sherman bogie up close, I must say I think this one is a size too small for that 😉

Ben M
👀 fascinating vehicle.

Mr D
Looking good, weld's coming on nice 👍

Ben M
How did you hold the wheels in the lathe?

Jakko ‌
@Mr D: that's not the welds yet, it's just the filler needed to plug the gaps 🙁 I'm still debating how to add all the weld seams.

@Ben M: An M2 screw, about 2 cm long, through the hole in the wheel, with a nut to tighten it. It needs to be fairly tight else chances are the wheel will stop as soon as the chisel hits it. On Asuka two-piece wheels, you need to do this before assembling the parts, because the hole on the piece to be glued in is smaller than on the part that has the tyre moulded on it.

Ben M
Thank you, I can envision the setup. I have a small lathe and arthritis in my hands, this technique could help me a lot. Thanks!

Mr D
Regarding weld's l have seen super glue used through a fine tip, you need steady hand n move in pattern to create weld.
Sorry l was looking at the resin 🤔🤣.
Good stuff be keeping eye
On progress 👍👍

Jakko ‌
@Ben M: What also works is a modeller's vice. Clamp the wheel in that, scrape down the seam with a straight knife over a third or so of the wheel, then unclamp and turn it, and repeat. If I scrape more than about two or three wheels by hand, my fingers ache enough that I have to stop, so the vice helps a lot. But you also get a lot of plastic scrapings all over your modelling area, so this time, I figured I'd put those in someone else's hobby room instead for a change 😉

@Mr D: Hahaha! The ones on the resin were put there by Resicast 🙂 But I'll now have to make ones that look similar, or at least not out of place next to them. I'm thinking a thin string of two-part epoxy, textured with a sharp tool.

gorby
I've just seen an Uncle Nightshift vid on adding weld seams:
Youtube Video

Jakko ‌
Thanks for that.

Mr D
Good video 👍, the finish on the flat plate work looks authentic, l think it's had better rough cast look from the brush stippling before he added the putty coat.
Good idea on the weld , epoxy putty best as regular epoxy levels out again.

Jakko ‌
I've begun to add the weld seams now — see photo 23 🙂 Basically, Magic Sculp two-part epoxy putty that I mixed up a very small amount of, then took even smaller amounts from that and rolled it as thin as I could in my hand before pressing it into the join between the parts. Getting it to stick there is tricky, especially once I began texturing it with the tip of a knife — it wants to adhere to skin and steel much better than to plastic, unfortunately 🙁 But with a bit of perseverance it does eventually stick.

Pietro De Angelis
Fantastic work, congrats!

David Taylor
really coming along.

Jakko ‌
Thanks 🙂

Robert Podkoński
I see some heavy duty equipment here and a lot of elbow grease... Good job so far, Jakko! Keep it up!

Jakko ‌
Thanks, though this is fairly straightforward. The most difficult part was finding a good way to curve the splash plates, really.