M10 Duck bill
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That is looking very, very cool - great craftsmanship!
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Very smart, looks good
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M26 Pershing WW2 project
Tam K'Tiger project
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HL Panzer IV Munitionsschlepper für Karl-Gerät
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Re: M10 Duck bill
OK, the minor rework has expanded a bit. Working on a micro servo to fit inside the ring at the front to act as my recoil. It will need to rotate around the hull and there wasn't much room. The sideways battery and HL lift mechanism was in the way so a rework was in order. I gutted the hull and plugged all the holes. Then needed to make a re-enforcement plate. I usually use .080 aluminum, but I am currently out. This one and the last I used .060 (about 1.5mm) steel. The last picture shows around 400 158 grain 38 special bullets (around 9 pounds) used to hold the plate down until the two part epoxy cures. Common hand tools can shape the aluminum, steel is a bit harder. Thankfully, I have a pretty well equipped shop so this wasn't too difficult.
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Only in America hahaha!
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I have used that box of bullets for years. The missing 100 or so are permanent weight adders to various things (one is my soldering iron holder, I got tired of it falling to the floor each time I withdrew the iron).
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Re: M10 Duck bill
Doc!
Looking Good! You have your finger on the Engineering Portion of this Build. Following Along!
Happy VE Day,
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Looking Good! You have your finger on the Engineering Portion of this Build. Following Along!
Happy VE Day,
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The first picture represents 6 hours from a close to stock hull to a steel bottomed hull. That .040 styrene to the right of the hull will get epoxied to the floor for a good glue surface (used the last of my epoxy getting the steel down). Picture two is the current upper, remember, this was my first scratch build, I had no idea of alternative ways to mount to the lowers. I'll probably remove much of the side to side bracing. The last picture is where the gun sits currently. Still need to build the three turret seats.
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Re: M10 Duck bill
Got the floor cleared out for inbound recoil and elevation parts.
This is as far as I'm going on turret detail until the recoil and elevation are worked out.
This is as far as I'm going on turret detail until the recoil and elevation are worked out.
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