Been quiet on this one as it's been a very long cycle of waiting for parts, then waiting for time and motivation and waiting for Gary to have a free slot to paint my wheels!
However it's really cracking on now! The replacement metal parts and the mantlet (and any missing bits) have been painted to match by Gary and I've done some other cosmetic bits and bobs.
The main ones been the skirts from dklm, I bought a set of the front and rear rubber mudguards and the side sand skirts from Carson's updated kit. Considering I had to cut the sand skirts out and the material supplied was a folded plastic bag, I felt $40 was a little high, but hey ho, you got printed templates for cutting the sand skirts and a load of screws and washers.
I was a little worried about the durability of the printed fenders, which was born out when they were smashed by the courier. I ended up piecing them back together and using them as templates to replace with rubber ones.
So far so good. The sand skirts were cut out as per the instructions, to be fair not a terrible job but for the price I'd expect them to be pre cut.
Because my Telic chobham kit was from armoured models and didn't have the same mountings as the new dklm kit I had to improvise. I used styrene strip stuck to the bottom of the chobham and then straight glued the sand skirts segments on. There was somemslight amrndements to the rear most segments but aside from that everything fit really well.
Now most of the external stuff is sorted the next job is to make ready for the electrical instal.
First job magnets to hold the turret together. As the control board and battery will live here.
Installing the tk60g2 into the turret with the gyro board and starting to hook up the connections and conduit the cables
The armoured models recoil unit
Clark model universal rotation with deck level switch. I still need to hack the servo here
