Evening Fellow Rocketeers,
Another small update is in order as yesterday was a holiday (Maria Himmelfahrt) here in the Fatherland. Today, I had a long drive all over southern Germany, so there was no table time as I am beat!!! So,
Greg - Thank you buddy as you keep me so motivated to keep going. I'm glad you like it...
Danny - Thanks and that is half of my problem. I see something new in the ref pictures and I have to add it. It's a disease I think. I hope to have this finished before you start your massive U boot project, fingers crossed!!!
Stevie - Thanks too my friend, but the weather took a turn and it is again hot as hell. Today it was just 36° C at 1530 with tomorrow being even warmer. Same holds true for the weekend too!!!
Yesterday I spent a lot of time at the table and again, it seems like you don't get anything done. For example, I remade the storage box under the right side and it finally looks right (I hope). I might redo the latches with etch as they look shabby in plastic. I then played with some etch chains for the caps on the back of the switch cabinet. I just need to trim, bend them and CA them in place. I also need to add the last oval plug on the bottom right of it...
I then moved on to the battery storage cabinet and added the gage and a switch knob. Yea, it ain't a whole lot, but getting the gage circle drilled out and keeping it round was a real PITA!!! There is also a box(?) on the left side of the switch cabinet and attached to the right side of the battery cabinet too. It has a little roof on it and was made from part of a 38T fuel tank and sheet plastic...
Sorry for the blurry pic folks. Last up was not as bad a I had thought it would be (so far). I made the base latches for the battery cabinet. According to my photos there were two (or more) slightly different cabinets. One had 16 latches and another cabinet shows only 14 latches. Seeing as I only had 14 pieces of etch for them, I went for the latter. Each piece is about 1.5mm big and needs to have 2 bends in it for the latch handle. Only one actually pinged off and after 10 minutes on the hands and knees, I found the little puppy under the table. They look like this...
Dang, another blurry pic. I used the iPad and I guess it doesn't do macro so good. The little wing nut looking end goes on the door and the latch handles will be attached to the bent pieces. At least it should look pretty good in the end (yea, right)……..I just don't have enough of the same etch pieces to make the handles, but I have a master plan to do it. Here is how they look in reality...
And here is what the little box on the 2 cabinets looks like. Just under the roof on the right side. As you can see, it has it's own little roof too...
That's all for now folks. The whole project is pretty straight forward as far as kits are concerned. With the resin wheels, the 2 Hanomags and the Italeri Opel blitz tankwagen are OOB builds. The Meillerwagen needs plumbing for brakes and fueling as well as resin tires which I'll get in October. The LOX trailer is pretty much OOB too as is the Opel T-Stoff tanker. This baby had to be scratched from almost the ground up, so I went with it first to get it out of my hair along with the pump trailer which is up next.
Ok, enough Blah-Blah for now. I do hope to get a lot further over the weekend. Please stay tuned to this station for more
boring exciting updates. Have a great evening and stay cool everyone!!!
Prost
Allen