Evening Crazies Out and About,
Ok, a week has gone by and I'm finally back on the ground and working on this project once again. The wing thingy fever has subsided and it's time to get serious here.... Sorry for the late replies.......
Paul - Thanks my friend. The spokes are from an etch set as you can see below. I thought about doing them with wire, but my sanity talked me out of it, plus I didn't have enough beer in the fridge....
Graeme - Great to have you here Sir and I hope you have a good time. That was a Halloween I won't forget and uhh, I don't remember too much about it either.....Something to do with JD and coke!!!
Dude 2 - I'd rather build tracks or road wheels buddy. At least they go together much better than the wheels in this kit. It gets better too. See below for a kick.......
Rick - You killin' me dude!!! That is one helluva answer and I still giggle about it. But the idea is a good one if this baby had some big bucks alu rims......
Richard - Arrrhhhh, a little rum goes along way here on the Pearl Matey....It's gonna get better before we go under again my friend......
Fernando - How's the mojo Roadrunner??? I think I've got it going in the right direction this time. Making my own wheels too!!! I have an evil plan for the sink marks, if they show....I'll call you tomorrow after work..........
So I broke out the Olga or Olfa, or whatever it's called and started to cut some circles out of 0,040 and 0,020 sheet plastic. I had followed Simon's advice and had turned the blade around so it cuts better......And it did. After a while I had these,
Two thingies that will look like tires. The set on the drill bit looks pretty good. So now you're wondering what these will end up as,
They'll end up being spoked wheels like in the pic. The finished one above is from my Steyr Stromversorgungswagen and has to be hung back on the side of it. Measuring out the etch rims, I'll cut out the discs to make them fit in the new ones for the trailer. I even have an idea to make tread on the tires.....I love the valve stems on the etch rims too. BTW
Paul, the originals were made from the spare tires from the ancient
Tamiya motorcycle kit with side car. I used a metal reamer from work to enlarge the insides of the tires to fit the etch rims in them. I think I reamed more skin off my fingers than plastic from inside the tires while turning the damn thing.....
I have also measured and re-measured the compartments for the reels and finally took the plunge and cut them out of sheet. The compartment dividers are 0,030 sheet and the long divider front to rear from 0,020 sheet. Of course the gezinta method let me down the first time and I had to make a new long divider from 0,020 sheet,
Now when put together, it fits real good and it even fit correctly on the trailer bed. Next up, will be the horizontal long compartment divider to separate the upper and lower compartments, but only on the side with the open doors.....
Still a whole bunch of stuff to do...Ok, really a whole bunch more stuff to do!!!! Thanks for looking in and all C,C and C are welcome.
Prost
Allen