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Been a while but I've managed a bit more. Changed the gun housing and manlet (still needs a bit of detail).

umm...looks good. Buuuut...what did you do?

The HL manlet is too wide and too far forward so I cut it down and moved it back. This meant making another gun housing as the HL one ends at the manlet-



Still need to add some detail.

Nice work. I didn't even realize that was an HL error.

Can't wait to see the detail.

Finally found time to get some more of this done -
Lowered the rear idlers-



Made some ramps to raise the drive sprockets.-





Added bearings to the output shafts-



Made some parts that fit into the transmission covers and will hold the bearings and covers in place.





I noticed that the rim of the cover is worn which is worrying as I only ran the tank for a minute when I got it to make sure it worked (with the original plastic sprocket)



Looking at it the sprocket sits on the rim-



and is 2mm away from the drive shaft-


I wonder if all PzIV’s are like this?
With metal sprockets the rim would soon get worn down and I’ll have a bad case of sprocket wobble so qut came the razor saw and I trimmed 3mm off-



Now the sprocket will need spacing out with a washer or two to line up with the wheels (I’ll sort that out when I get it running).


Running gear done-


Now for the Zimmerite.

Looks great! Makes me wish I had waited for you to do a PzIV so that I could just buy your parts. It would have made my lifting the sprockets a lot easier.

BTW...my sprockets didn't rub the plastic like that. Looks like your shafts might have been just a little short.

Very good looking Pz IV!!!
Love printed parts! Excellent!

Thanks.

Started on the Zimmerite. Printed out a few sheets to cover the large areas then I'll do the complicated bits with milliput

philipat wrote:
BTW...my sprockets didn't rub the plastic like that. Looks like your shafts might have been just a little short.

The shafts on the replacement metal gears are the same length as the nylon ones that came in the tank.

Gearbox ramps = brilliant

Finished off the zim and added some spare tracks-



Also corrected the exhaust pipe-