Roy!
Good afternoon. Thank you, sir. I'm following a few of Bob Steinbrunns detail ideas from his Build. I also have access to parts that did not exist when he did his Stuart so keep watching for neat stuff to show up. I'm currently awaiting lower hull dress up items from Armor Pax over on your side of the Atlantic. A shout out to those guys! Reasonable prices for amazing *must-have* parts for 1/6 builders.
regards,
Painless
1/6 1943 Stuart M5
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PainlessWolf
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...Here for the Dawn...
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Tonight saw the lower hull cleaned out save for the gearboxes. (I would rather not move those since they are in alignment and the motors can be removed separately.) The old RX and MFU along with the paper cone 8 ohm speaker were stored away. I spent lunch today researching new electronics ( again ). I found some drop in motors on another Stuart builders site that are six pole 600 BB with built in resistors. Once the spline gear is swapped out, they will make the Stuart roughly twice as fast. I will get a new 12 volt battery and stick with that since the motors only pull 7 amps. The MFU is still an article of research. Any 10 channel RX that plugs in via pins will work for 2.4 ghz range. After that, time was spent looking at sealing up the big speaker grill and deciding if I want to paint the inside flat white. More to come. This build is gaining momentum every day.
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- Moving on with tons of room to mount anything and everything.
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- A useful metal box lid provides a cover for the interior speaker mount.
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- Gears look new after all this time...I've used lithium white grease lightly for past runs.
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- Closeup of components including exterior resistors.
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- 14 year old electronics still work as intended.
...Here for the Dawn...
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More tools and parts in the mail today including a fabulous piece of kit...a Rusty Bucket(tm). Pics:
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- Even One Sixth scale tanks need a bucket!
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- Inexpensive metal mini vice to hold objects while I use the Yankee drill
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- Fun for 43rd R&R
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Re: 1/6 1943 Stuart M5
Ahh...........build is done mate, its completed now. 
Have bucket-project finished
Have bucket-project finished
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The final item on the Bucket list, HB ?HERMAN BIX wrote:Ahh...........build is done mate, its completed now.
Have bucket-project finished
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Herman, 43rdR&R,
Ah, if only it were so. Post came in yesterday with the first Armor Pax shipment. I am very pleased by the quality of the metal and resin parts. Today, I sourced out the sheet styrene and a punch and die set which will be used ( along with those lovely brass bolts from a couple of posts back ) to detail out the bottom of the lower hull. For actual work done, I lined out the plastic to be removed on the rear of the lower ( those pieces which formed the sidewall of the sand skirts back there ). I was able to assemble and remount the return rollers as well. I am satified that the bits and bobs located work great and help the 21st Century stuff resemble the real tank parts. Paint will see them finished soon enough. Pics:
Ah, if only it were so. Post came in yesterday with the first Armor Pax shipment. I am very pleased by the quality of the metal and resin parts. Today, I sourced out the sheet styrene and a punch and die set which will be used ( along with those lovely brass bolts from a couple of posts back ) to detail out the bottom of the lower hull. For actual work done, I lined out the plastic to be removed on the rear of the lower ( those pieces which formed the sidewall of the sand skirts back there ). I was able to assemble and remount the return rollers as well. I am satified that the bits and bobs located work great and help the 21st Century stuff resemble the real tank parts. Paint will see them finished soon enough. Pics:
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- One of the two sections to be removed
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- Return rollers assembled and remounted. No paint yet.
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- Ready made return roller inserts and grease zerks.
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- Resin bow plate and metal tow cables, shackles and rear mounts
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- This fellow is one of the best out there for One Sixth scale parts.
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- Her Majesty approves...
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Holy Moses!
Sassgrunt turned me on to an issue with the RC Stuart return rollers mounting shafts and the vinyl tracks with the correct guidehorns. On the inner side of the track run, the guidehorns are 1/16 too long to clear the return roller mounting shaft. The track gets raised up on that side. So, thinking cap is on. Sassgrunt is sending me a couple of solid return rollers with his take on the fix for this. I will end up using bearings and replicating it on the other four return roller shafts. Pics to come. For now, new tools from China today. ;o)
regards all!
Sassgrunt turned me on to an issue with the RC Stuart return rollers mounting shafts and the vinyl tracks with the correct guidehorns. On the inner side of the track run, the guidehorns are 1/16 too long to clear the return roller mounting shaft. The track gets raised up on that side. So, thinking cap is on. Sassgrunt is sending me a couple of solid return rollers with his take on the fix for this. I will end up using bearings and replicating it on the other four return roller shafts. Pics to come. For now, new tools from China today. ;o)
regards all!
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- New heavy duty Diamond Files for working on large scale projects.
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- More goodies from China!
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An important box of Stuart material came in from Sassgrunt out on the Big Island last Friday. I was three minutes late to the Post Office then and was told to return today (since everything was already shut down) Oh well. At least today came around and time allowed me to get into the lower hull seriously. I see how Mike did his Return Roller shaft mod and I think I can do the same thing on this tank. A little plastic work on existing shafts will be needed to make it look half arsed accurate. I think I can pull that off. *chuckles* Pics:
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- This was included in the shipment. A friend always knows when a new toy will cheer you up!
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- Both sides removed and rough filed. These areas will get cleaned up before primer goes on.
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- Inner sand shield fender removed. What looks like a shadow is just a marker line.
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- Working with one sixth scale parts, it really helps to have good tools on hand.
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- Drilled and assembled rear tow shackle mounts
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- Working with the Armor Pax parts.
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- Muchly needed extras and examples of the RR Fix.
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- Mike also sent extra return rollers for me to modify to allow the track to clear the return roller mounts.
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- One Sixth Scale Commanders Personal Defense Weapon
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- Mike sent over a couple of these, one Army issue and one a Chicago Gat.
...Here for the Dawn...
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What a fabulous build so far! Armourpax does some some awesome.stuff, it should comment your build nicely. The engineering going into the return rollers looks nice too!
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Re: 1/6 1943 Stuart M5
Tom!,
Thank you, Doc. This build is finally making real progress after long months of part searching, research and other interim Builds. It is a pleasure to work on since this scale is so large. Conversely, I will have to decide what level of detail I am satisfied with so far as opening hatches, bolts, and moving exterior parts go. I'm using Bob Steinbrunns build book as inspiration so expect some level of extra detail out of me on it.
regards,
Painless
Thank you, Doc. This build is finally making real progress after long months of part searching, research and other interim Builds. It is a pleasure to work on since this scale is so large. Conversely, I will have to decide what level of detail I am satisfied with so far as opening hatches, bolts, and moving exterior parts go. I'm using Bob Steinbrunns build book as inspiration so expect some level of extra detail out of me on it.
regards,
Painless
...Here for the Dawn...
