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Been slowly cutting up & trial assembling the turret.
It is a tricky assembly but it is starting to look like a turret. The ring assembly is stepped but I cannot see anything telling me which way round the "step" goes (260, 261/S12) I assume it is low end to the front but I think I have to finish both assemblies before trying to put them together. Camo alignment match is a bit ambiguous. I translated the instruction page (OCR+Gooooglish) which some may find useful as there a couple of tips that which could be used generically (eg wheel mounting order) Quote:
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Thanks to DJE's tips I managed to make my circles a bit more circular.
I have to say tho, the compass cutter does not appear to be a tovarich of armor production for the Paper Proletariat. Maybe this is cos it was made in an Axis country! :P Next I need to get the smaller hub rings done, then I can start actually building the 10 main road wheels. |
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Managed to force the turret into shape. Not a great fit & a fair bit of sanding to create sloped edge joins was necessary.
Even so it looks OK & will hopefully be able to be further improved. |
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Haven't had chance to do any more assembly.
A little more cutting & a late decision to acquire a 2nd circle cutter took precedence. I have only about 10 circles left to cut out but I liked the look of the ratchet & realized that might actually help make the cuts more stable. It turns out that a wrist will only twist so far. The new toy has just arrived & it has yet to be tried out. It has a plastic sponge backed disk included. This has a + cut into it. Looks like I can make a circle cut without making the center pin hole. I did some OCR & Gooooooglish on this, kind of self-explanatory - just as well as the translations of some parts were worse than the Kanji. Still it should help some non-Japanese speakers Last edited by hirondelle; 04-12-2017 at 05:05 AM. |
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Looks good. I like my current OLFA circle cutter, but this one appears to have some useful features. Unfortunately, none of the U.S. OLFA distributers carry it. Will continue to search.
The latest work on the tank is excellent. Don |
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Many thanks. Just ordered mine the same way.
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You made good progress, the turret is nicely done. I too was a little perplex about this cardboard part when I studied this model.
Compass cutter, a mandatory tool when doing armour . Btw guys, you know you can get those from many Polish paper shop were we buy our model Spare blade too... I even import my glue from them
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Don - enjoy
pjabraham - it had to said dje - As you know from the parts of the turret ring [261 + S-12] the 'break' in the ring is 180 degrees opposed. This made me think I could apply this idea elsewhere. The author doesn't like to give us too many clues . I think tire construction & the conical faces for each wheel must employ this method to give a strong bond with no butt-joins. (You probably know this but it was new for me to see this possibility available for so many parts.) One of my reasons for this tank build is the fact that paper doesn't like curved cuts, so I felt I should get practice with circles. Same thing with tracks - lots of work on these required & altho it is daunting I must try it! I did buy some glue from Poland with my last order as I wanted to compare it. I have since decided I would first use it on something simple. This time I will use what I'm familiar with - already a tough learning curve without new glue behavior. I have been adding to my pile of wheel parts, which with the edge coloring is quite time consuming. I want to get all the bits ready for these 10 road wheel pairs before starting assembly. The center boss is made with a petal dome, the finished item shown on GPMs site doesn't show this. It has flat circle. Cheat! :P I found a couple of decent WW2 images showing this model. Seems that there were only a few of them - 117 (?) made in 1940. Have not found much reference material on this specific model. Maybe it is all in Russian. |
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