tomhugill wrote:43rdRecceReg wrote:The sea air up here can reduce even galvanised parts to heaps of red dust before you know it; but I'd never suspect that a kitchen in Manchester could be so cruel to a helpless beast. Perhaps Tom should have used brass bolts..
I wonder if there's something in the cast texture ian used as the kv5 had the same
Issue or rusting bolts. The kitchen is not so bad, however the bottom shelf near the door of my garage seems to create natural oxidisation!
Woz the turret looks fantastic so far!
Could be some sort of chemical reaction, I suppose.
Salt is the usual enemy of iron and steel. Just out of curiosity, Tom, do you think the cast texture
is in need of toning down, or will you be adding another levelling layer of some sort at the priming stage? That's after a coat of 'rust eater', of course
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.
. Apart from having- I suspect- the only 1/16 scale (rusty) Tortoise in the Northern Hemisphere, Tom, you'll have the advantage of acres of internal real estate for electronics, motors and smokers. After working in the Cromwell turret, I know what a relief that will be 
