M4A4 Sherman VC Firefly, Halinski 1:25

[Igor]

Thanks you friends.
Still working on next bunch of details.
Stay tuned.

Originally Posted by Mike1158

They are marvelous, are your eyes square yet?

More like hexagonal already :D

[Abir Merlin]

Igor, it is just amazing well done!

[Igor]

Thanks Abir

Next part was suspension lever.
A lot of lamination here to make a very detailed part.
And again a lot of repetitions.





In this picture you can see that i didn't cut the parts all the way, so i can touch edges with paint in comfort way.



Here is conveyer process of assembling
I choose certain order, that i though was optimal.

















Last details put on and the levers are ready

[Vinalssergio155]

Impressive quality in every detail Igor.

[Igor]

Thanks Sergio

One more step is made - spring seat with volute suspension spring.
There are six, one for each bogey.




I made one ring where spring will enter at top, so i can know the diameter spring must be rolled. (There no marking or explanation ho to roll it)



Ready

[romanmodels]

good work Igor I enjoyed doing the suspension it's well worth the effort.

[Igor]

Thanks David. It is really enjoyable process despite of repetitions.

Assembled upper springs bed.
You need to glue a ring from two pieces: inner and outer.
So i bent them and glued together asymmetrically, which gave a little tab to close the ring.







Also spent several evenings to cut bogie frame parts
At this stage i used three (!) different thickness carboards: 0.7, 1, 1.5 mm

[romanmodels]

coming along nicely Igor

[gotham]

That is some amount of work !!

[Igor]

Thanks David and Gotham.

Finished bogie frame parts.



A lot of lamination here



Here you can see that detail 248 was rounded on one edge to make slim corner



And all parts are ready to be assembled together