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I have too many M113 spares, but of course never all I need for something like this I think I’ll paint all the grass on the base, it looks too much like static grass at the moment, but aside from that I’m quite happy with it.
I also did more work on the suspension. The best picture I could find of it is in the operator’s manual:
This shows some kind of plate through which the torsion bar for that side passes, and that for the other side anchors into. I used my RP Toolz cutter to chop ten lengths of strip and then had to find a way to cut two corners off each. Eventually, I settled on improper use of that same cutter:
Which gave me:
I glued these to the longitudinal bars on the hull sides, drilled a hole through and then added a piece of plastic tube and two rivet heads that I made with a punch and die set:
After that I had more fun cutting lengths of 1 mm brass rod and filing all the ends flat, so I can have this:
I also did more work on the suspension. The best picture I could find of it is in the operator’s manual:
This shows some kind of plate through which the torsion bar for that side passes, and that for the other side anchors into. I used my RP Toolz cutter to chop ten lengths of strip and then had to find a way to cut two corners off each. Eventually, I settled on improper use of that same cutter:
Which gave me:
I glued these to the longitudinal bars on the hull sides, drilled a hole through and then added a piece of plastic tube and two rivet heads that I made with a punch and die set:
After that I had more fun cutting lengths of 1 mm brass rod and filing all the ends flat, so I can have this: