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More painting :TU

Attached boom to main body



Masked off and some clear coat added to the orange









Whilst waiting between coats I cracked on with the headlights.











Next tidy up the wiring inside





Volume control secured

Yes 400 wet and dry to key then etch primer, then panel wipe to clean.

Update. Started on the main body.

Decided to add a fuel inlet which will actually be the smoke unit filler tube





And primer



Mean while had a little play





Then disaster :BH

One of the track drive sprockets came loose so a strip down to get to tighten up the grub screw :AR

Hi kiaser,

Yeah the grub screw was a pain, but loctite added now so fingers crossed never again.

Also done a top speed test measured it over a 10 second period and got 900mm so that worked out 90mm/s which is inline with the real thing which can do up to 100mm/s

Still need to make a cab interior.

Yeah they do an interior, but wasn’t part of my kit and didn’t realise until after I ordered it.

But I want to make my on so I can fit it out with fibre optics so lights up

I got to admit I never thought about the cab interior when I bought the excavator.

Prototype 1

Slow

Done some more painting then messed up last night and used wrong grade wet & dry paper on painted parts. so need to repainted some bits now.

Although I did manage a little play time on Sunday when I took excavator and sand pit to the tank club.

Also picked up a cheap RC articulated dump truck from one of the other tank club members, so now got somewhere to place the shifted sand.

Kiaser wrote:Tankbear how is the digger , you mentioned taking it to the tank meet it would be pretty if you got some pics

I like this beast you have

Yes I took it to Grantham tank club and showed it off, then distator



Burst hydraulic line just as comes off the pump.

Now changed the pipe and running well again.

And here's the dump truck



Ian