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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Apr 24, 2020 8:31:10 GMT -6
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Post by JCON on Apr 24, 2020 9:11:17 GMT -6
But it looks like you have all ten road wheels assembled? Is that other half a spare for the hull?
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Apr 24, 2020 10:20:26 GMT -6
No. It's the rear outer drive wheel half, which is missing. I guess, I could blow up the Tank and make some damage and may end up doing just that, if the casting doesn't work. Or, I could buy a whole nother kit and steel that one part from it. Or, I could pay a lot more money for a resin cast set of wheels. Lots of options here. That's the fun thing about modeling...... so many options. store.spruebrothers.com/product_p/mia35242.htm |
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Post by ARMORGUY on Apr 24, 2020 14:28:49 GMT -6
Good buy ! I'm in.
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Apr 24, 2020 16:39:59 GMT -6
Good to have you along Guy. Turretly on Turret events, we have Mr. Surfacer 500 and other appendages 
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Post by JCON on Apr 24, 2020 16:43:32 GMT -6
Or you could contact Tamiya and have them send you a replacement...
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Apr 24, 2020 16:50:59 GMT -6
On a 1974 kit? Sure Joe. Anyhow, I'm kinda looking forward to trying out the Blue Stuff and see how I fare. ( Or they fare.) The kit was an opened box and the bag with the wheels was also open. Don't think they forgot to put it in there.
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Post by JCON on Apr 24, 2020 22:00:56 GMT -6
Didn't realize it was that old fella, oops!!!  |
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Apr 25, 2020 7:34:26 GMT -6
No worries. Nothing we Mogelers can't handle. 
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Post by Beekster on Apr 25, 2020 8:11:14 GMT -6
Didn't realize it was that old fella, oops!!! Older than that, really. Kits like this one come from Tamiya's earliest period in the seventies. At that time, plastic models were much more toys than true scale replicas, and the motorization bit was big in Japan. There was a standard motorization pack, which was usually deleted from export-market kits, so most of us never saw that stuff back in the pre-internet days of mail order and International Reply Coupons for overseas orders. Just one problem with that standard pack though: It was decently compact for the era, but it forced kits to be designed around it. For that reason a lot of early Tamiya kits have some weird proportions. Standing alone, those errors aren't always noticeable. Put one of these oldies next to more modern, accurately scaled kits and the differences are apparent. Doesn't make them any less fun to play with as a blast from the past. That missing wheel ought to be pretty straightforward to cast from the remaining original example. Block off the through holes with some discs of .005" sheet, mount it vertically with some thicker sheet contoured to join the curve of the tire to the base so that resin & air have some extra room, and you're good to box it up and pour RTV. |
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Post by JCON on Apr 25, 2020 8:23:11 GMT -6
I have heard that before Beekster... mainly on the Sherman's...
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Post by Beekster on Apr 25, 2020 8:57:52 GMT -6
I have heard that before Beekster... mainly on the Sherman's... Oh, definitely on those. The early M4A3E8 was way off, as was their early M10, because of having to work around the motorization set. Their later Sherman efforts like the mid-eighties M4A3 and early nineties M4 are pretty accurate from a dimensional standpoint, though they have other maddening flaws like trenches for weld seams and hollow sponsons above the tracks. But we digress... T-34s are a subject I have shied away from. My OCD tendencies are bad enough when applied to Shermans and their cousins, and T-34s are definitely in the same league with all the variances between models and different factories at different times. There's only so much a brain, library shelves, and a wallet can tolerate so I stick to Shermans and admire the dedication of others to T-34s. |
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Apr 25, 2020 12:37:37 GMT -6
Yes. One of the first things you taught me on the " Shermans " Forum was about open sponsons, which this kit has. I'm not going to waste my time filling them, probably and it won't be near as god as you and Russ's builds. It was supposed to be a quick and easy build to fill the boredom of being shut in during our Global Plague.
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Post by Beekster on Apr 25, 2020 14:03:01 GMT -6
Fun is the point of all this, so don't worry about it. Besides, unless you photograph it from a low angle nobody knows the difference!
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Apr 25, 2020 14:52:43 GMT -6
Don't worry. No one will ever see the under side. So today, filled the underside holes up with putty, put on the fuel taks and a few other things.   
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Post by ogrejohn on Apr 25, 2020 17:41:49 GMT -6
Looking good Bruce!
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Post by JCON on Apr 25, 2020 18:12:07 GMT -6
LOL, you say no-one will ever see the underside and then post the next picture of the underside!!!  |
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Apr 25, 2020 18:31:51 GMT -6
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Post by JED on Apr 26, 2020 11:36:59 GMT -6
Getting there Bruce
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Apr 27, 2020 12:32:46 GMT -6
Yes, little by little. Sanded down the green, yesterday and hope to get the rest of the parts on the deck.
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