Re: RC 1/16 Churchill Mk III - Dieppe Raid 1942 - Build
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 5:04 pm
Thank you Sean66 and PershingLover for your kind words.
As a final touch to the build, i have decided to take the time to complete the 1/35 AFV Club kit that served me so well as the basis to build the 1/16 scale version. The alternative was to send it to my 1/35 junkyard... a pity as it was already mostly built and the AFV35176 kit is worth about $55.
However, i replaced the complicated kit plastic link tracks by the nicer metal Friulmodel ATL-164 Churchill early type tracks that should be used on a Mk III. I did not use the metal wire to link them. After a quick trial, i determined that the provided metal wire was too thin for a good fit in the holes, with no way to properly keep it in place. Also, every link would have required a level of drilling and cleaning to make them workable, a process that would probably have taken 20 hours. On a static kit, i did not see the value. The track links were simply superglued and then positioned in place. Strangely, on my other AFV Club Churchill kit on inventory, the vendor provided rubber tracks for them.
Close up of the 1/35 Friulmodel Churchill early tracks links. They are worth about $20 from Hungary.
Comparing the DKLM 1/16 late type tracks used on the RC build with the 1/35 Friulmodel early type tracks for the static kit.
I finished the 1/35 kit the same way as its 1/16 model, but i gave it a different name. It is "Confident", a Mk III of the 15th Troop that also landed at Dieppe.
I gave the 1/35 kit the honor of being completed and to sit side by side with its cloned big brother.
Regards, Louis
As a final touch to the build, i have decided to take the time to complete the 1/35 AFV Club kit that served me so well as the basis to build the 1/16 scale version. The alternative was to send it to my 1/35 junkyard... a pity as it was already mostly built and the AFV35176 kit is worth about $55.
However, i replaced the complicated kit plastic link tracks by the nicer metal Friulmodel ATL-164 Churchill early type tracks that should be used on a Mk III. I did not use the metal wire to link them. After a quick trial, i determined that the provided metal wire was too thin for a good fit in the holes, with no way to properly keep it in place. Also, every link would have required a level of drilling and cleaning to make them workable, a process that would probably have taken 20 hours. On a static kit, i did not see the value. The track links were simply superglued and then positioned in place. Strangely, on my other AFV Club Churchill kit on inventory, the vendor provided rubber tracks for them.
- RC 1/16 Churchill Mk III - Dieppe Raid 1942 - Build
- RC 1/16 Churchill Mk III - Dieppe Raid 1942 - Build
- RC 1/16 Churchill Mk III - Dieppe Raid 1942 - Build
I gave the 1/35 kit the honor of being completed and to sit side by side with its cloned big brother.
- RC 1/16 Churchill Mk III - Dieppe Raid 1942 - Build
- RC 1/16 Churchill Mk III - Dieppe Raid 1942 - Build
- RC 1/16 Churchill Mk III - Dieppe Raid 1942 - Build
- RC 1/16 Churchill Mk III - Dieppe Raid 1942 - Build
