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Old 03-24-2017, 03:04 PM
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Aaand there we are again. I had so much to do in my offline non-paper-building life that it actually took some time.
I managed to make another wheel, I filled up the gap in the Zil's deck with the berthing place for the Soyuz and I closed up the hull entirely. The front part of the lower hull was tricky, especially at the sides. It now is nice and smooth, on the photo it still is in the middle of the shaping process.

After that, I built the three ribs over the hull with some thin upright glued strips. This was quite tricky, it needed some guiding, so I glued the top part of the ribs from an extra print over the grey glue areas at the base of the ribs. I guided the thin vertical strips alongside them and that did the trick.

The propeller area at the back of the boat hull was an odd shaped pair of parts that needed some trimming and eventually looked very good.
The deck got its round concave-shaped garage for the capsule. I almost missed a part in this 'dish', and I had to cut loose the originally placed one I made earlier. Luckily it all went without any damage.

At both sides there is some kind of anti splash screen running alongside the truck. At the port side, it is collapsed to make room for the struts and pedestals of the crane section. At the co-drivers' side it still is extended.

And I also made the two cranes. They were a joy to build and the only thing to look after when building these is to keep it all straight. It easily gets torqued. The piston in the cranes was clad in a thin strip of aluminium tape.
The wheel, well, I did one before, this one went about the same way, only a lot quicker. Two down, four to go.

The suspension system for the wheels looks quite elaborate, I might take some time to figure that out. In the meantime, here's some visual material to look at and hopefully the gap between this post and the next one won't be so big.
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