itsa_ss

how did you get the bend in the leaf spring? just bend it as the glue sets up?

Johnny

I shaped the parts for the leafspring before I glued it together.
Paper holds it's shape very well after forming it.

Johnny

I did manage to get the front axel,suspension and steering into place even if it looked kind of difficult in the beginning.





So now I'm going to start on the front wheels

Bunkerbarge

I'm sure there are less parts in the real thing!!

Johnny

A lot of parts are fun!! isn't it ? Takes a while to build though....

The front wheels was kind of a strange experience.....I could not decide how the wheels should be made out of the drawing.It seemed to me that something was missing, so I had to make some changes.....just to get it together properly.

I start with the parts to be used and the drawing.


So to try to get this together I had to make 4 extra rings...two with the same diameter as the main frame to put in center of the wheel, and two a bit smaller to put on the outside , so I had something to glue the side to...


So I made the coned centerpart.This was made of two parts turned each way.


The center of the cone.


And put into place it looks like this.


The ring that holds the cone in place.


The centercone in place


The top and the side are in place, and the curved strip is to make the upper side on the wheel.


The top structure is made of 3 different patterns to be glued on top of each other.Picky work with all that small cuts....


And we have one finished wheel.
Front and back.

Bunkerbarge

The finished item looks so amazingly realistic and I think the tread looks superb.

Johnny

Continuing with the second wheel....

The paperstrips that will be the upper part of the "rubber" are as mentioned in the last post made of 3 different strips.Each a bit smaller than the first.
The first strip.After the strip is glued around the wheel, the ends have to be bent down and glued to the side.


And the painting of every single edge.....was a very timeconsuming thing...


The second strip


And the third strip


And at last the two rings...painted and ready to be glued on each side of the tyre.


And the two tyres are done...


In between tyres I have just started to put together some chain links....


The chainwork goes very slowly.....so so far I have made pr today...8 links...

Bunkerbarge

As always, quite amazing.

The patience required for such repetetive work as this defies belief. Lovely job.

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alan2525

What are those track links made from? Are they just layers of thicker card? Did you have to cut each one out yourself with an exacto or where they laser cut?

They look amazing.

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Johnny

The tracklinks are lasercuts from DrafModel. They are also of card.
He made me some prototypes to the Sdkfz250 and for the NSU kettenkrad in 1:25 that I'm going to build after this one.
But I discovered some minor errors in the links, so I'm not sure how it's going to turn out yet.I have mailed him about the errors, and I hope he's going to solve them......The links are 3mm too narrow...so they won't fit on the drivewheels and the leading wheels....the hole for the rolls on the drivewheels are also too small....so I hope he'll fix it.