Vickers Independent M.K. I. ca. 1930

[Gerald43]

Hello,
I have bought a model sheet from the 30s.
Now I will build one, from A3 to A4 reduced copy of which.
if someone will buy the sheet should here you get it

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on the photo I hold the model bow in my hand which the original is that I have bought.



The report comes from the summer of 2010
Sorry for my English. I have a lot to do with Google Translator.

[Gerald43]

So the first parts are cut

[Gerald43]

The tub was surprisingly easy to build and fit. Unfortunately it turned out that the chains are a little too short.




and here is the base (well, a chain drive is missing)

[Gerald43]

The first gun tower is finished. Coming third only Again, it is not necessarily match exactly (either the lid and the base of the tower a little too big or the wall of the tower a little too short) and by the pressure of the laser copier it comes to unsightly wrinkles in the edges. Also I find the area a bit too powerful gun for the small tower ... See for yourself and the area to which the tower is the tower, not quite hidden

[Gerald43]

Actually, before the gun would be the tower of the main tower turn been, and I get it now. Overall, the tower of three parts plus the two parts for the gun which is all flat and even here is not to build Rotating (at least if you, like me, it is in this case, comply with the bow holds).

[Gerald43]

The main strand of the parts fit back together wonderfully. Apply only when the tub I had some problems bringing the tower to within the marked circle (I did not succeed) A scaffold made of cardboard in the tub would have certainly helped as (but was not in the instructions)

[Gerald43]

Now the driver tower is up. Somehow the too high or too low, the main tower. In any case, the gun is now in the driver's tower. When the tower was built to rotate he would be no longer rotate. Geometry would also have been easier if the driver tower (13) before the main tower (7) to install, but I wanted to build even after the order. This has left a trace of the glue on the pictures but looks worse than it really is, and is also covered by the gun towers. (only the flaking of the color of the laser printer bothers me a little of who should actually laser printer for that?)

[Gerald43]

So now, all five towers was on the tank, the fit of the 4 MG towers not say how special.

[Gerald43]

now I am approaching the end. The last three parts are cut out.

[Gerald43]

finished!
So that was a model from the time of our fathers and grandfathers was still drawn without a computer. I hope it was something interesting. Thank you for your attention.