Afternoon all .
Here at Race Towers the battle continues, sorry to say although I rate this kit highly there are some parts that I just cannot do. The kit is far better than I am as a modeller.
Although there are some missed No's on sprues, which is so simple to proof read in the beginning for Thunder as you can spend time looking for the parts, esp when looking at the sprue in question you see the parts have already being used. Then you question if you have used the wrong parts some where else.
I think the main problem is the size of some of the parts for me, , less than a mm think and 6mm long, and of course very thin. For example some u bolts.
Now these go above D15 and fit over the end of the shafts.
Well I tried to fit, looked worse when Id finished so cut them off. I remember on the S61 I actually made them out of wire, but have decided not to bother.
Nice sub assembly of the foot plate.
Bit out of focus , that's a a rather too close up of the fitted plate. The small hole at the centre of the photo was so tight a
Diamond file was used to open it, now not many parts had to be cleaned up, but with such small locating pins problems soon came to light .
The front idler wheel caused a lot of trouble .
Part C36 being the problem, those pins I could hardly see and there was no feel as you attempted to fit . Once glued on the slot the stepped part was supposed to slide onto the frame.
Well they just didn't , the gap was too small , in the end I hacked them and half the outer rim of the wheel and just glued the wheel in place.
As for the tracks................................ great ! loved them. OH NO YOU DIDN'T I HEAR YOU SHOUT, OH YES I DID.
Made up from 3 parts, I glued the right hand part on first, had to drill 5 holes including one in one of the right hand part.
Once all the drilling was done it was a matter of gluing all the right hand parts with the hole and when fully dry the left hand fitted easily into the pin hole and then into the two holes in the plate. So good was this that you good feel and hear a click as the pins engaged.
Ok not the cleanest look track but they are together.
It ends up looking like this.
Yes there's a good gap, try as I may it just didn't want to join up , even with CA. Will I use filler, no can't be arsed !!!! sorry.
Still have that twist, and nothing I can do the get it any better.
I messed up the front PE name to the rad, the PE should have also gone around the fuel tank, but they showed that going on after the tank was fitted, no way could I get the PE round when it was fitted. There is supposed to be some cross angled parts running from top left to bottom right and vise versa. Just too much for me, so might fit some plastic strip of the same angle if the sixe is near.
I've left off several other bit which will be fitted when the tracks are on. Oh the rad fan was completely out of alignment if fitted onto the engine, so stuck it on the the centre of the rad, need to insert a section of wire.
Not too dejected, tried to do more than I'm capable of, better suited to wreaks and buildings I think .
Comments by al means. Just want to get it finished, hope there are enough track parts with moving the wheel, and get on with the dio .
John.