Good afternoon gang.
The Devon hoard have left the building, long drive back 5-1/2 hrs. Been great seeing them, and no damage sustained to any models. A great present for Christine to see them all .
Did a bit during the week added some detailing since the last post. The engine was mounted into the frame, not a straight fwd job as no real instructions given, it is a matter of lining up the radiator , the top engine cover and the drivers end. Althought I had double checked the engine height several times, , but it will only sit in the frame in one place I still had to remove the top of the airfilter at an angle. All seems to fit and looks right to me .
Using the Tankograd book and the walk round given by RZ models i've really enjoyed my self peering through 2,5 & 3.5 lenses attempting to do the detailing. Used wire that came with the kit for some and some of mine as well .
Stand by Cpl Jones the PEWTER was brought out from the safe and an arm made for a control lever.
Pweter on the right hand side to the left of the rad. As for the rod I had to use thin
Evergreen Strip, and even put a nut head on the lower section of the arm..
The main pipework from the engine to the injector on the lower outside part in white took several hrs. Shown by those black lookinh pipes. Also have some power cables from the starter on the other side of the engine. I wanted to show some leavers on the bottom right. There were some PE parts in the kit, but I felt the bent wire would look the better size. Trying to CA the wire to the some very thin points drove me to cut them off , and drill them out. Far better , the wire ends popped into the holes , a drop of CA , job dome.
To the side of the drivers fuel tank at the rear is supposed to be 2 PE box' s that fit into the angle side, well completely out of my depth I've had to admit defeat. Looking at the instructions the show the completed boxes, but for the life of me I can't understand the bending. There are lines showing where a bend goes , but some of the bends are also put the other way. I tried both of them and called it a day. When the cab is on I shall make some up from plastic sheet. ! Some things I just don't get.
The rad front was not too bad, had 2 goes at bending, looks a bit knocked about, more in keeping no doubt.
Lastly the driver, after several hrs of searching including checking out Steve's findings I came up with
At the moment the guy holding the control leavers is having some advanced surgery , I'm using another leg from one of the other seated figures , with a bit of fettling the two legs have fitted, will have to use odd arms a well to look right as the arms of the first driver are wrong in reaching the leavers for steerage.
Back to normal tomorrow ( yes Si I know I'm not normal myself ) so will get a move on with the drive train .
Thanks for looking in, comments welcome, good , bad , indifferent , or plain rude.
John .