' Can you see what it is yet ?'

[volvospeed2010]

hey hey, thats awsm.

Can´t be an, M7 Priest or Sexton, but it will be an M3 Grant, meaby an Lee. You see this, at the Tunnel for the Canon. For an M7 would be to wide on the right side and to deep doo. Hope that my sherman is coming soon. Please make a lot of Pictures, every side

Very interesting is the 3 pieces transmissionscover

Keep this very good work up

[mcevoyi]

hi there frank

i have several set of drawings that i am working form .... ans yep looked at the m31... and i may do it .... but also been looking at the ram 2 arv ...

[mcevoyi]

I have a question? I found an old paper cutting board, you know it looks like(see picture) and cuts really straight lines. What do you use because your seams always are straight and never any gaps. Or any tip or tricks you would like to share with a less skilled tankers like me? Sax

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hi there sax

i have a tv dinner table .. its a bout 1 yard long and two foot deep // on the left side of the top i have a wooden strip about 2 inches wide and 1/8 of an inch thick ... i but the plastic card up against the edge and put an engineers flat profile set square and usea tamiys scriber to cut
i always ger a square edge .... with angles i have a steel protractor for angles //.... all my measurments are made with. calliper guage

i spend hours getting parts measured correctly .. if i am unappy with what i am cutting / makeing i stop .. and starrt again ...
i have a big stock of plastic card ... from 5 thou right up to 150 thou .... my model shop usualy orders me in what i want .. and i always order 20 sheets of a size at a time ..

[volvospeed2010]

I want to buildt an M3 Grant, did somebody has some drawings for me ?

[mcevoyi]

hi all

at last a bank holiday weekend ... and so far escaped the garden centre .. yippie .. but not had the weekend all my own way ....

any way i see volvospeed trying to build the same m3 series .. cool .. nice to see how he would do it and compare ideas ... .... i like one or two parts of his build

and a bit frustrated with other parts too .... i have been trying to find some m2 bolt head screws and nuts for the transmission cover .. and he seems to have them to hand ... all i can find is m3 .. which are too big .... but seen some nylon m2 .. so may invest in them and see what happens ......any thought about nylon ?? i think painting them may be a problem ?

as you can see from the pics below .. i have done the turret too ... it took two attempts to get the damd thig the right profile .... i wounder if any ones looking at the tank .. if you notice anything .. that i have not done .... its a clue as to where i am going with this build ......

[mcevoyi]

just thought !

i have to start the long .. boreing job of adding the rivets ..... oh crap ....

[mcevoyi]

you mean this thing ??



lol.... yes ... that where i am going ..... i am going to have a bit of a bash with ARV's for a frw months ....
i have a pile of drawings and books from the REME museum ...

[volvospeed2010]

don´t worry my friend

Here i have some links for you, there you can order

http://knupfer.info/

http://www.screwsandmore.de/

http://www.modellbauershop.de