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I think you could probably teach the builders of the real bridge a thing or two!

Cool project, and a great start!

Perfect details. Are the long parts also sandblasted? If so, how do you do that?

Bernhard

We should form a support group...

Compared to this, my models are crude toys. -- Russ

The next steps will follow, so there are a few small parts again today.

In some places, I won't be able to use the finishing cutter to round off the second side of the rivet head when it is installed.
In contrast to the wire pins normally used as rivet replacements, I have fitted some angles and U-profiles with 1.0mm rivets (head diameter 1.3mm - shank 1.0mm). I accepted the different diameters of the head and the opposite side. On the one hand, the corners are hardly visible later and on the other hand, the slightly larger head diameter provides a little more security against falling out when soldering the neighboring parts when assembling the many individual pieces.

Small Pertinax gauges were again used for the vertical and parallel alignment.

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Four of these rivets were soldered into the 6.5mm x 6.5mm nickel silver sheet. My existing rivets were a little too long at 6.0mm, so I had to shorten them first.

I used a 2.0mm thick aluminum angle from the leftover box. The excessively long rivets were inserted into eight 1.0mm holes drilled and shortened on the underside with a side cutter. I then sanded the whole unit smooth on a 400 grit sandpaper, holding the small rivet heads in place with a piece of wood (in the following picture, the piece of wood is pushed to one side to show the rivet heads).

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I then wound the small nickel silver plate with the four shortened rivets...

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(Excerpt from the catalog: https://www.gebr-ott-gmbh.com/werkzeuge-maschinen/)


...a 0.5mm brass sheet with corresponding holes served as a spacer when working with the finishing burr.

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The first of two parts is ready to fit.

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The two support beams are connected to the two lateral portal beam tower sides with the aid of eight straight and eight beveled small L-profiles.

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These were also fitted with the 1.0 mm rivets and soldered in two corresponding Pertinax gauges.

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The rivets of the L-profile still need to be shortened and rounded off.

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Ah yes, of course I know the village. A typical scene from a Swiss army refresher course. I've experienced it a few times in a similar form.

Bernhard

Thanks, Russ and Bernhard!

I have several kits of that tank in 1/35 scale, and it would have been much easier to build one of them. But I wanted it in 1/25 scale, Why? I don't know - maybe because it's just bigger!

@Berhard: Schönholzerswilen. And that photo with the elderly woman isn't a coincidence. The idea to present the model one day with that lady in front of it, that thought has hounted me all the time. Would be a great contrast. But then I should find at least a similar 3D figure...

We will see!

Thin to suit.

Glycerine is pretty easy to get.  I think I got a small bottle from the supermarket, although I have around half of a 5 litre bottle I'd give away if you collected.  One of the 3Dprint resins I used to use needed to be cured under glycerine.

Lawrence

Russ:

Thanks for the offer.

With the help of the BBB I have their phone number.  Apparently they work out of a hobby shop which from the pictures looks as if it is an an industrial park.I intend to call them. 

As an aside, it appears that the Chinese provider who made their ON3 flex track has stolen their dies for it. Sort of like the problem Atlas had with them some time back.