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....wow. That's some mighty tight slicing there, bro. This is turning into a real show to watch! Your approach should look fantastic.. if you survive all that tiny cutting!
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Great precision at a small scale!
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Cutting out those pesky little pieces continues. In an ongoing joke here, everyone at some
point tells me "don't sneeze". Well, it finally happened. A sudden onset of sneezing. Happened so fast I couldn't turn. And there you go. I did find all but 7 of those track enhancements. And, contrary to popular belief, building small scale does not make you go blind....
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Show off........
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Now I know why armor modelers build at such a slow pace. Considering I have to remove 256
slivers from the track runs, then make 6 cuts on each of 128 track "cleats", then glue those 128 parts to the treads. How do ya'll keep from slashing your wrists in this tedium, just so you can bleed on the parts and have a viable excuse not to continue? I have a new found admiration for the tank builders here. Work does still continue, and I really feel the results will be worth what I am learning in this little trip. Hopefully, will have some photographic updates in a few days.
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All the "cleats" have been done! Glueing has started. What a slow process! Thankfully, I
am teaching my sons some modelling techniques for a couple of plastic builds for an Oct contest, that will allow some of my tips and tricks to carry on to the next generation.
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I admire your patience, Ray. It's exactly this repeditive and mundane cutting that keeps me from more advanced armor kits. Can't wait to see the fruit of all your labor. I'll be it's going to look superb.
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Just parts
Here is what I've gotten to. The first pic is the pile of
pieces to be glued on. The second pic is how the new thinner parts look before any of the paint/weathering is done to the track.
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Ray,
And I thought that my PB4Y in 1/200 was "punishment" enough. Armor treads with details in 1/87 scale. The Austrian company that makes this stuff in plastic "ROCO" didn't go that far! Good luck on your endeavors. |
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Finally!
The tracks are done. Now I can move on to finishing the roadwheels and drive sprockets. Hopefully I will have those almost finished by the end of the week. Then the main armor parts.
After notching, cutting out, and glueing all the little pieces, I used a dark gray pastel chalk all over the treads to give some shadow depth in the corners. Then I took a very light rust colored chalk powder and brushed that between the "cleats", rubbed it in a little, then removed most of that color. The last color applied was a VERY light dabbing of SNJ silver polish powder on the high parts of the cleats. This gives the appearance, maybe not completely accurate, but the appearance of a used track.
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