Back to the roots

[Ray Dunakin]

Nice work. The printed parts look sharp!

[Peter_T1958]

Thank you all for your kind comments!

The bad news is you forgot to order some parts. The good news is it will take months to clean up the beautiful prints that just arrived; you won't lose any time. -- Russ

Russ, you are spot on with your forecast: Indeed, I needed about half a month to clean up the major parts for just one side! But at least it's starting to look like a tank. There is not much left of the original kit parts.



All remaining fenders are just to support the weight of all additional parts (i.e. toolboxes, exhaust system, tool rack). Later they will be covered with PE parts to catch the look of thin sheet metal. For this I usually first draw templates from paper as may be seen here.

[Peter_T1958]

With regard to Bill's telegraph apparatus I must confess that I would not be (never been ) able to assemble such tiny parts. That's one more reason I try to print as much as possible in resin printing.
And «my» printer in Romania has improved once again with this one single piece on the left, the fairly thick rear armour with the attached delicate frames and, on the right, with this extremely fragile shutters (they are used to deflect hot exhaust air).



And it fits like a glove!



It's a pity, of course, but this will barely be visible at the finished model!