WWI British Tank Crew Vignette
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The ICM kit started thoughts about this project...
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I forgot to make pictures from the very start, so this is about 8 hours from the start.
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Conical shape of the cannon barrel solved - two aluminium tubes 3-4mm dia. super-glued together and then "hand-turned" using Proxxon and some files and knives...
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About 18 hours? Rivets made by punch-die tool, but I will have to tune their heads to be "rouded"...
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Yesterday, I tried to tune the rivet heads using "kornovák" (a goldsmith tool). I think that is the way it will work!
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A little step forward.
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More rivets, nuts and bolts.
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Added some details to the suspension part.
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I made some mistakes during measuring and upscaling the kit, so I needed to make new, bigger track link...
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Track link ready for cloning.
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Rivet Snow!
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Half the way...
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Rivet heads rounded...
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...and primed for further work.
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The track links are here! Look perfect. Thanks to P.B.!
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Yeah, this is much better look!
Коментари
11 November 2019, 13:06
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Interesting 🙂 I guess you might consider buying the tracks separately.
11 November 2019, 14:36
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I'm trying to buy some surplus tracks on models exchange, otherwise I will scratch one piece and make some copies... The original Takom is quite expensive for my purpose - more than 3/4 of it would go to sparebox :-[
11 November 2019, 15:18
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No, just a front part of the right side, it will be just a vignette focused mainly on the figures 🙂
11 November 2019, 15:48
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Nice figures. I have them also in the bench. If your in need for parts of the tracks I habe a very few from the Tamiya kit. You could make a copy.
12 November 2019, 20:10
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Intriguing way to model that barrel and those rivets. Creative! 👍
12 November 2019, 20:46
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Hello, thanks to one modeller from our contry, I have now three track links to clone them 🙂
19 November 2019, 09:48
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Actually, the scratching seems to be complete and I am waiting for cloned track links (I had to scratch them too, due to a mistake with upscaling the scratch)... During this time, I will start the work on the ICM figures.
14 January 2020, 13:02