HL Abrams detailing build

[greengiant]

Haven't seen that first pic before, really good view of it. That grill is very thick I think those grip holes are a factory job as pounding a rod through something that thick would be very hard and most certainly severely distort the whole grills flatness and the other holes around it.

[greengiant]

Finished off the tank rear for now. Added some last things HL did not mold in.
Having the openings in the rear deck really help the sounds and will let some heat escape from the inside of the hull which in stock form is pretty much sealed up.

[ALPHA]

Haven't seen that first pic before, really good view of it. That grill is very thick I think those grip holes are a factory job as pounding a rod through something that thick would be very hard and most certainly severely distort the whole grills flatness and the other holes around it.

Yeah...and apparently I didn't notice you posted the second one...for some reason it didn't show last night when I wrote my reply ...
The first thing I thought of when I saw the anti slip provisions ...ok...I'm a little punchy from making laminate ports...but the first thing I thought of were bullet holes


ALPHA

[ALPHA]

I had a hunch I saw something new last night....but because they were painted over...thought you did them earlier

Dang Giant...when you go to town...you go to town and party hearty


ALPHA

[greengiant]

They were done about 2 days ago. Really did it so fast because I just need to clean off my dinning room table where I work on everything which for about 2 months now(since I started working on the KT's) has become more and more deeply covered with reference pictures, wiring diagrams. boxes of plastic sheets and scrap plastic, nuts and bolts and screws, different transmitter receiver combinations and tools.
Only wanted to have to clean it off once for a while and put everything else back where it belongs when I'm not working on a tank and have a display tank on the little carousel in the center of the fairly large round table sitting in my little dinning room area.

[ALPHA]

They were done about 2 days ago. Really did it so fast because I just need to clean off my dinning room table where I work on everything which for about 2 months now(since I started working on the KT's) has become more and more deeply covered with reference pictures, wiring diagrams. boxes of plastic sheets and scrap plastic, nuts and bolts and screws, different transmitter receiver combinations and tools.
Only wanted to have to clean it off once for a while and put everything else back where it belongs when I'm not working on a tank and have a display tank on the little carousel in the center of the fairly large round table sitting in my little dinning room area.

LOL...you were working on three tanks??????????????? By god Giant...my work area sounds like your table of three tanks when I'm working on one ..... .....

ALPHA

[toniolillo]

I really like your work, very meticulous

[greengiant]

Yea Alpha, I was just finishing converting my new HL bb production turret KT to IR and recoil, and my HL Porsche turret IR and recoil to 2.4 system and zimmerit when the other Abrams builds began and I saw I needed to correct some things I overlooked in my HL build. So I kept rotating tanks in to work on but didn't remove their supplies out because I would come back to them as new parts arrived after I had started work on a second tank. Now all 3 are done (for now). Its table clean up time.

toniollo -- thanks but its only to a point, I'm not really a bolt counter but I like the tank to have an appearance as close to the real thing visually, say from 4 ft away as you look at them, then you get from any mfgrs ready to run or kits in 1/16th scale.

[greengiant]

This is what I have to clean up Alpha. You can hardly tell there's a table under there.

[ALPHA]

This is what I have to clean up Alpha. You can hardly tell there's a table under there.

I clean mine after every session lol...and your's still looks cleaner ........... ,,,,,,,


ALPHA