"WHITE TIGER"

[HERMAN BIX]

Cheers mate, it was not cool and sure changed the mood !!
I promise I will deal with the track tow cables this week. The "cable-pixie" has lost my address it seems

[Markocaster]

You have me in stitches with the dog crap post
Although I am sure it wasn't funny at the time

[ALPHA]

Cheers mate, it was not cool and sure changed the mood !!
I promise I will deal with the track tow cables this week. The "cable-pixie" has lost my address it seems

I can only imagine ...bet the more you ran the worse it got ....but you found humor in it... something many might not be able to do

Wasn't there a Log you made to go on the side? what happened to that...did you shelf the idea ?


ALPHA

[HERMAN BIX]

No mate, the log is alive & lying prone on the building desk. Its been on a couple of times for a test run, I am going to use a chain for the front and undecided on a rope or chain for the rear.
Have helmets etc to stow as well.
The track tow cable pixie is the one I really need a visit from to get me over the 'hump'
A mental block that is.
Gin'd around on the exhausts a bit to add character. Bit of Tamiya smoke stain pastel, and a bit of rust on the difuser plates, but not to much.

[ALPHA]

No mate, the log is alive & lying prone on the building desk. Its been on a couple of times for a test run, I am going to use a chain for the front and undecided on a rope or chain for the rear.
Have helmets etc to stow as well.
The track tow cable pixie is the one I really need a visit from to get me over the 'hump'
A mental block that is.
Gin'd around on the exhausts a bit to add character. Bit of Tamiya smoke stain pastel, and a bit of rust on the difuser plates, but not to much.

I think your exhausts look fine Herman...maybe just a touch more black on the inner intake hoses ...but really it looks dang good right now... about those cables... have you thought about the trick CupofTea offered up awhile ago.... I copied him on my KV2 build using windings from a toy motor... I'm sure you have some laying around lol... just open one of the smaller motors... take out all the wire... put it in a drill and wind away...the copper is great... more flexible than the ones sold on the market... Cup did the ends using shrink wrap... I should have copied that as they look much better as I tried using aluminum to sleeve the ends instead

ALPHA

[HERMAN BIX]

Yes mate I have the cable sorted, but the mounts are causing the mental constipation !
I got a channel profile in brass that is a fraction to big, but I reckon it will work.
I have "ALOOOMINUM TOOB"(!!) that will serve as the crimps for the loops at each end, its just the mounts.

[PainlessWolf]

Herman,
The weathering is coming along beautifully. Any more thoughts on the Diorama base? ( Shack front vs full shack? )
regards,
Painless

[ALPHA]

Yes mate I have the cable sorted, but the mounts are causing the mental constipation !
I got a channel profile in brass that is a fraction to big, but I reckon it will work.
I have "ALOOOMINUM TOOB"(!!) that will serve as the crimps for the loops at each end, its just the mounts.

Ah................ so need for wing nuts

ALPHA

[Markocaster]

Yes mate I have the cable sorted, but the mounts are causing the mental constipation !
I got a channel profile in brass that is a fraction to big, but I reckon it will work.
I have "ALOOOMINUM TOOB"(!!) that will serve as the crimps for the loops at each end, its just the mounts.

I am stuck with the same problem. I may have a go with styrene?
Also thought about cutting up the moulded tamiya mounts and reusing them???

[HERMAN BIX]

I thought or drilling the H/L mounts and threading the picture wire through them, but the small plastic mounts just did not take to the drilling so close beside each other for the cable.
I would honestly take the option of using a tamiya cable set, but I cant get one of those anyway.
I will try this channel brass & see how it goes with blue-tack to place them.