HL King Tiger - The Side Skirts Touch the Tracks

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HL King Tiger - The Side Skirts Touch the Tracks

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Sorry- never mind i just realized i had the tracks on wrong...my bad!
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Marc, Captain Obvious here posting for Mr.Jackalope it would appear you have the tracks on wrong. ;) :haha:
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Yep, that is issue #1. Once you turn those puppies around and you still have rub which is a common occurrence on HL's just get out the hairdryer and take the upper deck off so you can apply heat from behind and bend out slightly...
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:think: Didn't you do this before ? 8O or was it someone else :think:

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As a famous man said Doh!!!! :lolno:
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Horses45 wrote:As a famous man said Doh!!!! :lolno:
Looks awful DEJA VUish :crazy:

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dgsselkirk wrote:Yep, that is issue #1. Once you turn those puppies around and you still have rub which is a common occurrence on HL's just get out the hairdryer and take the upper deck off so you can apply heat from behind and bend out slightly...
I thought of that, i have my wife hair dryer and a heat gun...I think the heat gun would make a bad mess of my tank fast though of course! :O How do you know not to go too far and heat the plastic too much by mistake?

I thought of bending them outwards to look battle damaged but, they were armored skirts, I have never seen a photo of one with bent skirts-missing yes, bent no...I considered all the options to this point, anything's better then to do damage to the upper hull- so expensive! But i have thought to do more body work, been hesitating and considering exactly how, naturally you'd want to do it right since there's no do-overs.
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so Marc, are they still touching after you reversed the tracks?
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The other thing to start with first is sand them down. They are wayyyy to thick for scale.
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dgsselkirk wrote:The other thing to start with first is sand them down. They are wayyyy to thick for scale.
I like mine beefy...they hurt when you run over peoples feet :D


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