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Well done Tim!. It has the old Verlinden style finished look about her. Lovely tonal work on the side panels. A very nice crisp finish to a very lovely looking model.
Many thanks Steve. Appreciate the kind commentsWell done Tim!. It has the old Verlinden style finished look about her. Lovely tonal work on the side panels. A very nice crisp finish to a very lovely looking model.
Cheers Bob. She’s a bit like a Stug that suffering from “toomanybarrellitis”.Very nice build Tim, lovely job!!
Thanks Mick. Very kind of you.Nice one Tim, that's a great build and finish
Cheers Paul. Track building using the tape and Contacta method (as shown by John R I think) was actually quite simple. It helped that these were link and length, so I didn’t have to put together every single link, but like everything, it pays to think through the job several times and solve problems in your head before you do it.Just caught up with this, Tim. Lovely job! The paint looks great, the track building looks terrifyingly fiddly and laborious! I'd agree that including a figure would've been a great addition, but knowing your skills in that department he might totally eclipse the rugged beauty (!) of that bizarre bit of machinery!
I'm creeping towards finishing my own miniature army, and thinking about what to do next, so it's interesting to see where the painting experience I've gained from that exercise might translate across to other related disciplines. This thread shows it can be done (although I appreciate you've got tons more experience in these related fields than I have).
As an aside, looking at those tow cable screw tensioners - what were they thinking? There MUST have been a reason for using something more complicated and costly than simple clips or hooks for mounting them, mustn't there?
Could it be that, if the final bit of slack in the cables wasn't taken up by a screw tensioner, then stuffing the beast in gear and lurching suddenly backwards might snap something? If not that, then what? (Disclaimer - I have ABSOLUTELY ZERO expertise in any of this heavy metal stuff, real or modelled!)
Paul
Certainly is a near perfect method of doing tracks, after all the headache I had attempting them before , this method is a breeze .Cheers Paul. Track building using the tape and Contacta method (as shown by John R I think) was actually quite simple. It helped that these were link and length, so I didn’t have to put together every single link, but like everything, it pays to think through the job several times and solve problems in your head before you do it.
As to what you do after your army, you could do another army, or think about what you actually liked best while doing the current one, and do something that builds on that. Larger scale figure, or perhaps a bust, maybe a simple scene to build on your excellent base work, or something completely different like a ship or truck? That’s the best thing about this hobby, at the start it’s all bare plastic and imagination.
Regarding the cables, I really don’t know. The only thing I can think of is that they were already available so that’s what they used. They can’t exert tension, the cable is not even taught, and they are simply too weak to use as tow points. John R might know, but I don’t LOL.
I don’t know either, but Soviet tanks are not my speciality. It also comes across as an unnecessarily complicated solution to me, but what I do know is that the KV is riddled with unnecessarily complicated solutions due to the unique circumstances of its design. There was a very good series of articles about it in Military Modelling 15–20 or so years ago that included a full development history, whose principal ingredients appear to have been ambition, engineering students, envy and politics … That could explain those fastenersAs to those fitting for the tow cables , like you Tim I have no idea !
Perhaps Jakko might have an idea .
Politics hasn’t changed much then AllenGreat info Jakko!!! It's all about rivalry, prestige and Bumskie politics from back then and to trying keep Stalin happy without paying with your life..........
I think Pete's onto something and the binders could have been used to bring the tracks together to drive the last track bolt in place. Sort of like the track jacks we had for our M-113's when we changed track shoes and such.....
Prost
Allen
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