Only forty? Try a rubber-tyred Tiger next time But yeah, suspensions, and especially cleaning and painting the wheels, are the least enjoyable part of armour modelling for me.Started with the 40 rubber clad road wheels (I've already done the steel ones). 4 sprue gates each and a mould line, this was going to take some time. I can't believe you armour guys do this regularly for fun
Mind on zero, gaze on infinity (that’s Dutch a bicycle racer’s proverb). Or have music on while you do this on autopilotI enjoyed that so much that I did the individual track links too.
Ah, yes. Small(ish) wheels are always even more fun because of that. With the last Sherman I built, after trying to clean up just one wheel by hand, I took the rest to my father’s lathe and just turned a little bit off the tyres to get rid of the seam for exactly the same reason. Of course, these wheels had a hole for an exile through them, which made that much easier than with the ones on your kit.Yes, I did have Steve Wright on in the background. To be fair it wasn't the monotony but the cramp in my hands that made it literally a pain.
Best to make sure of this — you may actually have more to spare, or OTOH, might need more on the model than the instructions tell you. This is more likely to be the case with separate-link tracks, though.Checked through the instructions and I only seem to need 28 of the individual links anyway!
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