Challenger 2 - for me, not you!

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Hi

Looking forward to your build.

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Thanks Darren!

Managed to strip everything off the hull, cut out the battery box, filled in the holes and added some 2mm aluminium corner and strip from B&Q to get some rigidity on the lower part.

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Used magnets for the attachment of the upper...

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And added a set of James Canham late wheels and cut off the bazooka plates as I'm going to attempt to make them from brass sheet.

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Lots still to do!

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And I hereby change thy name to Disco!

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200ml of clear art Epoxy with green dye crystals (that didn't turn it green) and gold glitter...

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Been making some mud guards for the front and rear sections using 1mm and 0.5mm Nitrile from eBay and Styrene off-cuts.

Luckily my trusty liquid solvent bonds the Nitrile and Styrene to the Heng Long plastic nicely!

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I then used contact adhesive to bond on the thinner sheet and trimmed to fit.

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The rears are both done.

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Needed to add Styrene to the rear of the Nitrile so it would conform to the side correctly - a tiny screw ensures that it can be removed if necessary.

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Good morning,
Very, very nice detail work there!
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Subtle , like the b in subtle!!
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Thanks Painless and Herman, I'm enjoying this one quite a bit!

Been adding some brass detailing, metal bits and Styrene to the upper.

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Also made a speaker box for the Visaton Oval Broadband SC 5.9 (4Ohms) as even though it's a big old chunk of plastic, I've run out of space once the battery and IBU3 are installed...

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I now have 5 reference books and another on the way - detailing may take some time!

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Slowly cracking on with the build...

Making the front indicators functional with a 3mm orange LED on each side, modifying the stock plastics by cutting, drilling and swearing!

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Once the heatshrink is heated it conforms to the desired routing on the hull.

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Yep Wardog, also seen a speaker in the turret too.

Getting a bit carried away by the brass bits - I'm basing this build on the black version of Nomad, which was shown during the Royal Tank Regiment amalgamation ceremony. I've only got 3 pictures (left and right sides and a almost front on view) to work from so it's a bit of guesstimating as there are some details that I'm not quite sure about.

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Anyway, onto the pictures!

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The barrel lock isn't functional, but at least it won't fall off!

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I'm going to do the front lights again as I realised they had another light under the indicator and the headlights now sit on top of the additional armour plate...

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Really going down the rabbit hole here...

The rear is now finished - not that you can really see it when on the floor!

Have added infill to the jerry cans, radio and scratch built the light clusters each with a brake light, indicator and running lights wired into the fronts - the right hand cluster also has a number plate light too. Doing the brass wire protectors was a bit of a mare, tried soldering them together and then having to reinforce with superglue.

Much respect to the master builders on the forum - how they get everything so clean and perfectly aligned is beyond my skill set!

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Also added three bearings to the turret ring to make it run smoothly - before a full rotation took 16 seconds, now 10 (both times with the DKLM metal turret motor and ring)

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Really need to finish off the front lights - been putting it off! Image

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