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One I started about two years ago for the Animal Antics group build:
This has sat around unfinished since then mainly because I couldn’t find a good way to do the flail chains, which I want to be of the specific pattern this particular Crab had. A few months ago, though, someone 3D-printed me parts to make them up, based on measurements he took from the Crab at the Overloon war museum:
And tonight, I finally got round to trying to assemble them … emphasis on trying, which it was As he had printed them with holes through the pieces to take connecting pins, I bought 0.4 mm brass rod to do that with, cut some lengths and assembled what I need. Here is what about 20 minutes of work got me:
The length on the right is a cut-down piece of Resicast flail chain, as “my” Crab’s flails started with some links of that before going on to clasps, oval links and rectangular plates before terminating in a ball.
I’m not sure this is going to work. Even if I assume assembly will get easier with some practice, I’d probably still be looking at ten minutes or so per chain, times about 40, which is far more effort than I want to be putting into this … I’m starting to think a better solution would be to print up the chain as a whole (with interlocking rings etc.), then bend it into shape with some heat from a hair dryer. But that means drawing that and getting someone to print it — luckily I have a (different) friend with a 3D printer who lives not too far away … I think I may have to give him a call soon.
Jakko’s 1:35 Sherman Crab Mk. I — seeing double?
It dawned on me a while ago that my Brewster 339 doesn’t really follow the spirit of this group build: yes, it’s known as a Buffalo, but only in British service, really. Mine will be an ML-KNIL (Military Aviation of the Royal Netherlands-Indian Army) machine, though, and pilots and crews knew...
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This has sat around unfinished since then mainly because I couldn’t find a good way to do the flail chains, which I want to be of the specific pattern this particular Crab had. A few months ago, though, someone 3D-printed me parts to make them up, based on measurements he took from the Crab at the Overloon war museum:
And tonight, I finally got round to trying to assemble them … emphasis on trying, which it was As he had printed them with holes through the pieces to take connecting pins, I bought 0.4 mm brass rod to do that with, cut some lengths and assembled what I need. Here is what about 20 minutes of work got me:
The length on the right is a cut-down piece of Resicast flail chain, as “my” Crab’s flails started with some links of that before going on to clasps, oval links and rectangular plates before terminating in a ball.
I’m not sure this is going to work. Even if I assume assembly will get easier with some practice, I’d probably still be looking at ten minutes or so per chain, times about 40, which is far more effort than I want to be putting into this … I’m starting to think a better solution would be to print up the chain as a whole (with interlocking rings etc.), then bend it into shape with some heat from a hair dryer. But that means drawing that and getting someone to print it — luckily I have a (different) friend with a 3D printer who lives not too far away … I think I may have to give him a call soon.