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Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:29 pm**

Dan ! Great work on the photo etch. What are you sticking it on with ? Superglue? I would be terrified i would loose them after all that hard work. Fantastic build

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Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2018 7:03 am**

PainlessWolf wrote:Good morning, Burger!
Say Hello to Crazy Joe if you do fall overboard. His M36 TD was another build that caused sleepless nights. All the work and worry is worth it once the job is done and trundling around the back yard. Following along.
regards,
Painless

Thanks Painless...still chugging along...Patience is a virtue...your right, it will be all worth it in the end.

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2018 7:13 am**

Markocaster wrote:Dan ! Great work on the photo etch. What are you sticking it on with ? Superglue? I would be terrified i would loose them after all that hard work. Fantastic build

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Hey mark,
On the exterior where the brass meets the plastic, I used CA glue, but on each piece I soldered a brass rod that goes through the hull and on the inner side a swamped the protruding brass rod with JB Weld...I think this should hold pretty good,

but it stuff starts to tear off....I will just call it battle damage and paint some rust effects in the empty spot...

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:13 am**

This session is for the convoy light. As some of you may know, I was toying with the idea back on page 4 with making my own SMD LED convoy light. I had them all made up and just needed to figure out the mount. Well, in that amount of time I played around with the SMD LED's so much I broke them!!!

Like my Dad used to say..."BOY don't play with it to much or you'll break it"!!

Sure enough I broke it!!!

No problem, I fabbed up some more and found a PE set for the mount by "WECOHE". I wont play with this set now that I know how fragile they are. I must say, it was a challenge to put this together, but the good news is, there wasn't to many parts. The trick was to solder one part and not have another part fall apart. Probably not going to hard mount this until later so I don't mess up the Lense on the convoy light. Well here it is...

: RESEARCH

: RESEARCH; Panzertubulartaillight10.jpg (88.57 KiB) Viewed 9382 times

: PLAN ON USING THIS PAINT BRUSH COVER AS MY LENSE, BECAUSE THE ONE THAT COMES IN THE WECOHE KIT HAS TO SMALL OF ID TO FIT THE SMD LED'S.; P1250001.JPG (89.51 KiB) Viewed 9382 times

: CUT TO SIZE; P1250002.JPG (89.04 KiB) Viewed 9382 times

: GOT SOME TESTORS LENSE TINT TO DARKEN UP THE LENSE; P1250003.JPG (88.67 KiB) Viewed 9382 times

: 1st COAT OF TRANSLUCENT LENSE TINT.; P1250004.JPG (88.67 KiB) Viewed 9382 times

: THESE ARE TINY LEDS!!; P1270006.JPG (94.79 KiB) Viewed 9382 times

: SMD LED'S FROM ELECTRONICS STORE; P1270005.JPG (90.57 KiB) Viewed 9382 times

: MAKE SURE ARROWS ON BACKS OF SMD LED'S ARE POINTING IN SAME DIRECTION FOR CURRENT FLOW.; P1270007.JPG (87.49 KiB) Viewed 9382 times

: ALL SOLDERED IN SERIES; P1270008.JPG (87.79 KiB) Viewed 9382 times

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:24 am**

: GOT THE WIRE LEEDS SOLDERED AND A 100 OHM RESISTOR...WE HAVE LIGHTS!!!; P1270009.JPG (86.48 KiB) Viewed 9381 times

: HERE IS THE PE DIRECTIONS FOR THE WECOHE KIT; P1270010.JPG (85.4 KiB) Viewed 9381 times

: THIS GONNA BE FUN!!; P1270011.JPG (87.09 KiB) Viewed 9381 times

: BENDING MAIN FRAME IN BRAKE; P1270012.JPG (86.31 KiB) Viewed 9381 times

: P1270013.JPG (92.26 KiB) Viewed 9381 times

: ROLLING SIDE STRIPS IN PE ROLLER; P1270014.JPG (87.85 KiB) Viewed 9381 times

: P1270015.JPG (86.01 KiB) Viewed 9381 times

: P1270016.JPG (93.43 KiB) Viewed 9381 times

: READY TO SOLDER FIRST PIECES; P1270017.JPG (90.42 KiB) Viewed 9381 times

: SMALL LENSE CRADLE SOLDERED IN PLACE ON BACK FRAME; P1270018.JPG (81.25 KiB) Viewed 9381 times

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:34 am**

: END STRIP IN PLACE; P1270019.JPG (91.72 KiB) Viewed 9380 times

: P1270020.JPG (89.73 KiB) Viewed 9380 times

: BENDING OTHER SIDE STRIP; P1270021.JPG (85.25 KiB) Viewed 9380 times

: P1270022.JPG (92.13 KiB) Viewed 9380 times

: OTHER SIDE PLATE AND SRTIP READY TO SOLDER; P1270023.JPG (89.88 KiB) Viewed 9380 times

: BAM!!; P1270024.JPG (84.89 KiB) Viewed 9380 times

: READY TO SOLDER OTHER SIDE, HOPEFULLY WITHOUT STRIPS FALLING APART; P1270025.JPG (89.25 KiB) Viewed 9380 times

: LOST TINY END BOLTS, HAD TO LOOK THROUGH MY STUFF AND FOUND THESE. THEY ARE TO BIG, BUT OH WELL...; P1270027.JPG (87.2 KiB) Viewed 9380 times

: READY TO BEND MOUNTING PLATE; P1270028.JPG (88.08 KiB) Viewed 9380 times

: P1270029.JPG (88.81 KiB) Viewed 9380 times

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:43 am**

: P1270031.JPG (85.57 KiB) Viewed 9379 times

: USING SEWING NEEDLES TO HOLD MOUNTING PLATE TO LENSE FRAME; P1270032.JPG (85.12 KiB) Viewed 9379 times

: TIGHT; P1270033.JPG (86.62 KiB) Viewed 9379 times

: P1270034.JPG (87.86 KiB) Viewed 9379 times

: DRILLING MOUNTING HOLES. WILL USE EXTRA LONG BRASS RODS TO GO THROUGH THE REAR HULL.; P1270035.JPG (90.34 KiB) Viewed 9379 times

: BRASS RODS READY TO FAB UP WITH WASHERS, & NUTS; P1270036.JPG (91.06 KiB) Viewed 9379 times

: P1270037.JPG (92.03 KiB) Viewed 9379 times

: DRY FIT IN PORT SIDE MUD GAURD OPENING; P1270038.JPG (91.49 KiB) Viewed 9379 times

: P1270040.JPG (89.5 KiB) Viewed 9379 times

: FENDER CLEARS LIGHT WHEN RAISED; P1270041.JPG (89.43 KiB) Viewed 9379 times

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:49 am**

: TIME FOR THE BURNISH BATH; P1270042.JPG (91.2 KiB) Viewed 9378 times

: AFTER BURNISH BATH; P1270043.JPG (87.96 KiB) Viewed 9378 times

: LENSE SMOKED WITH FINAL COAT OF TRANSLUCENT COATING; P1270044.JPG (85.25 KiB) Viewed 9378 times

: GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE GIRLS I GO OUT WITH...LOL; P1270045.JPG (85.44 KiB) Viewed 9378 times

Going to wait to hard mount this convoy light so i don't break it again or over spray the lense

Well thats it for this weekend...back to the grind tomorrow...stay tuned, more to come...

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:15 am**

That is absolutely amazing work

I applaud you!

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:29 am**

Simply magnificent

I will never go as far as you have to achieve scale realism.........all credit to you Mr Burger

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