Dave,
Hi plastic fans.
Here is the up date on the T40s
Plenty of small etch, and I managed not to loose any ( apron working well .) Ive been using some flexi CA by VMS.
I cleaned the back of the etch, just a slight abrade with a needle file, a slight dap of CA. and low and behold it fell off. So much for the advert saying it sticks well . I retried, of course I had to remove the ca from the model, you will still see quite a bit.
Some times it worked , spot on, not a fast grab, so if you move slightly then that's it back to square one.
Reverted back to my cheapo Tool Station CA, love this , quick spray with the accelerator, job done. Using some cheap plastic applicators, they clog up a little, but just clean off the end and start again.
There were some quite small parts in the kit, Allen Dewire had told me about these and how Hobby Boss will break a part down into far too many subsections. Several times I had to join very thin plates to the hull, then try to glue a towing eye, would have been better to do that in one part.
Two options for the turret fire power, I chose the METAL barrel over the larger machine gun. There was a plastic barrel, why anyone would want to fit that when the metal one was in the kit ?
Not a bad little kit, anyone with more experience would most likely sail through this. I did like the PE, some interesting bends, as in the light s, handed as well , but I managed this with out the jig .I even sanded lightly the end pins and to my amazement the pins went in to the pe brkts !!!
Just have to do a little clean up, I had the option to leave the hatches up, but didn't want to attempt in interior.So left the drivers hatch just open .Left off the tow rope, very nice piece of copper wire, but no towing eyes, strange thing to supply half finished. Ive left the pe brkts on the wing, and will use an Eureka XXL set with the StS65.
Also I had added a fuel drum, now converted to a water carrier to the back of the St 65, and will be hanging a bucket from the tap .
To me this was some serious bling
, that bar section, above the three to the right of the engine grill was the thinnest part I have ever managed to remove with my saw with out snapping ..
Now you can hardly see it !.
Shows how big the St65 was compared to this little tank. No problem in pulling this.!
Tap !. I can see some clean up required on both of them before the paint.
Talking of, painting this will have to be done in between doing the dio. That way when I have to let something dry I can fall back on to the painting and the weathering.
Thanks for looking in. Comments welcome !
John .