Nothing is as much fun

[kentyler]

probably had they lying around the shop

[kentyler]

building the rings
despite my wish to "make the model the way the real thing was made"
i decided to create a mounting slot in the rings for the piece that joins them together
gluing a round roll evening against a ring is a hard thing to do
so i cut out another copy of the ring and then cut each ring into 2 pieces, leaving out the part
that the roll will be glued to
gluing each part to the ring then left me a "slot" that I could glue the round roll into

[kentyler]

my "assistant" helped with one of the rings
he chews more than he glues

i'm using an old tube of acrylic yellow, since yellow is one of those colors that covers very badly and i will need to use a lot of it

[kentyler]

the wheels go round

i made a mandrel and put the wheel centers on it, i put several so that they would be strong enough to wrap the rims around
the rims are a strip wrapped round 3 times
then a somewhat narrower, though longer, strip is wrapped round about 4 times, to be the rubber tire
when wrapping i only glue an inch at the beginning and an inch at the end, i used to try and glue the whole strip, but that
just makes it harder to wrap
after the ends dry i smear a little glue around on the edges and when that dried the edges are sanded a little to smooth
the layers of paper into each other

the axles wrapped around a bamboo axle and then were trimmed down to match the outlines of the ends and then glued into the centers

[Don Boose]

Good tutorial.

Don

[kentyler]

and .... we're back

wrap the wheels with an outer layer to represent the rubber tire
and give them a nice coat of yellow
my favorite, making angle iron... you can't really make it by folding
and the side pieces for the wheels

[kentyler]

or the wheels had a layer to much "tire"
so i had to compensate by gluing the angle irons on the side plates offset just a little down
trying out the roller
cutting the cross bars
probably should have made these of bamboo
laminated card works, but it tends to want to bend in a directions

[kentyler]

thinking about the side plates

since the hull is getting mounted, had to do a little here and there
amazing how hard it is to get the bottom of holes black
i "pinned" the side plates in order to position them
since with the hull pained i had no reference marks
the 4 bolts in each plate correspond to bolt hulls in the hull where the running gear bolts on

next comes the frame work that fastens the top of the hull to the two rollers

[kentyler]

with the limits of my fingers

sorry, these have a lot of glare
the picture of the pallet is for reference... i'll need to make a bunch of those to stack the parts on
these are the return rollers
i don't like the method of making the roller used here, would rather make the tire by wrapping and creating a solid piece
i find that for small pieces... rolling them before cutting them out helps to get some "roll" to the edges
to show the rollers disassembled i have to cut bamboo to fit in the ends and shape it to represent the spindle the hub for the roller will fit over
for that matter, i have to make the hubs, since haliniski skipped representing them

[kentyler]

doing tank restoring
again, i apologize for the lighting
to create the hubs i used a copy of the wheel center, and extended the cone of the hub a little from what was provided in the model
i poked holes for the bolts that will hold on the return wheel and then had the problem of how to mount them
i could make them of bamboo, but cut to size i could not handle them
... then i realized !!! i did not have to make them the length of the bolts... i could make them longer, and glue the to the hub
and cut them afterwards

even so
this is at the limit of my fingers