SimonT - 1/35 Tamiya Sdkfz.223

[JR]

Morning Simon
All coming together and up to your usual standard. How do you bend the aluminium tube without it just kinking?
Jim

Morning Jim.
I expect some strange power is employed while chanting to the metal gods !

Excuse me Simon , I got excited at the mention of pewter, nearly as good as mentioning fire !

 

[SimonT]

Morning Jim - there is some slight kinking if you look closely. I bent it using round nose pliers, very slowly levering it as well as rolling it between the jaws. Bit hard to describe really - trying to use the jaws a bit like a pipe bender machine

John - hopefully fire will not be involved, but it had to have some pewter

 

[Jim R]

Hi Simon
I seem to remember asking somewhere about bending tube before Do you think you could do like plumbers do and fill the centre? Maybe a length of wire pushed inside. Mind you if it was too tight a fit or the bend was too sharp you'd perhaps never get it out

I expect some strange power is employed while chanting to the metal gods !

I thought something along those lines too!!

Jim

 

[SimonT]

Hi Jim - K&N do a set of bending springs but I have not had any success with them. Might be ok if you want a bend in the middle of a long length but not a short piece. Have tried wire down centre but then you are stuck with wire inside as there is no way it will pull out. The wire has to be pretty much the same as the bore otherwise it will not hold the tube walls and you will still get a kink

 

[Tim Marlow]

Have you tried filling with solder, making the bend, then melting the solder out again? It works for brass tubing, but may be difficult to fill aluminium tubing?

 

[KarlW]

I lost a bending spring bending 10mm pipe when I moved my oil tank. Started using sand from then.

 

[SimonT]

Tim - how on earth do you fill a pipe with solder?

Karl - don't think I would get much sand down it, hole is only about 1mm


glue cleaned up on the etch roof



cable added to aerial frame

guards added around semaphore turn indicators - the attachment points are rubbish and will require filler


window covers modified so that they are in the open position


turret assembled after filling the hole where the mg is meant to be rather inaccurately clipped on

 

[Jakko]

Tim - how on earth do you fill a pipe with solder?

Slide it in like any other wire, I would imagine?

 

[JR]

Slide it in like any other wire, I would imagine?

Then melt to fill the gaps ?

 

[Tim Marlow]

Hi simon
you use a solder pot at one end, warm the pipe and then fit one of these
www.amazon.co.uk/Solder-Sucker-Desoldering-Desolder-Remover/dp/B07JZF2MKD/ref=sr_1_22?adgrpid=54968804804&dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwgdX4BRB_EiwAg8O8HXYiyye1hpYiF_WLGHa_UWvp5MWOYb0eHEdh9VUsHV6dtnRa4EqLwhoC-S4QAvD_BwE&hvadid=259110253177&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1006578&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=b&hvrand=10330026042169340912&hvtargid=kwd-295762056646&hydadcr=28148_1752695&keywords=solder+sucker&qid=1595234202&sr=8-22&
at the other. The suction (it’s a Spring loaded single hand operated tool) will pull the liquid solder into the pipe. There is obviously a minimum size tube that can be accommodated, and it works best with low melt solder.

 

[Steve Jones]

Totally missed this one Mr T. Had a very enjoyable read through. These old Tammy kits are ideal for kitbashing. Liking what you have done so far. Keep it comin my friend

 

[Graeme C.]

The upgrades are looking good Simon, impressed with the exhausts, they look much better than plastic kit items.

 

[JR]

Arg still asleep then Simon, I'll come back first thing tomorrow .

 

[SimonT]

Jakko/John - I suspected that Tim had something more fiendish in mind....

....and indeed he did....

Tim - didn't even know what a solder pot was. I had to look that up. I do own a desoldering suction tool though. Bit more trouble, and cost than I want to go to though thanks. Think I will stick with using the round nose pliers considering how infrequently I need to bend tubing

Steve - it's been festering away in the background. All the parts clean up was done off site in between work on other things. I do like the 222/223 even though the Tamiya kit is rather outdated straight out the box. Hopefully it will be passable in the end
I really should get one of the Hobbyboss versions done - should be much better

Graeme - thanks. Herman must have ticked the stainless sports exhaust option At least they are the right shape now

John - morning. Update waiting for you below:



both rear mudguard boxes added c/w their etch details - numberplate back board, piano hinge on the side and the two part latch


the chassis armour plate added at the front - this was sanded down to a better thickness


turret mesh hatches added

I went with the Eduard mesh and kit frames then sanded down the frames to half thickness

The kit is the new release and comes with a set of steel mesh - no mention of it at all in the instructions - but I preferred the Eduard mesh

 

[JR]

I love the "sanded down the frame to half the thickness"

 

[Tim Marlow]

Coming on nicely Simon. I never had an electric solder pot, by the way, I just used to use a stainless steel spoon placed on the Aga hot plate.....the hard bit was the desoldering pump. 145 solder works best.......

 

[rtfoe]

The bare minimum additions looking good Simon. The antenna and exhaust are so much better with your touch.

Cheers,
Richard.

 

[SimonT]

added the door mounted storage boxes and etch mods

found that Eduard have transposed the numbers for the piano hinges on these boxes and the ones on the rear mudguards

as a result I had to trim down the ones for these door boxes as I had already used the shorter ones on the rear boxes

luckily the hinges on the rear boxes can not really be seen

also added the bracket on the side of the large bin and what appears to be a bump stop to prevent the door smashing the lower bin

I also washed the turret in my mug of tea

 

[JR]

Morning Simon, as always, amazed to see which part next you can find a way to improve--------- and successfully

Thought not sure about this washing of parts in tea, is this recommended, because I found that applying the same to the keyboard made it worse

 

[KarlW]

I always give the same advice when I hear about mishaps with mugs of tea at the bench, drink beer from the bottle instead........