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Good Evening, Herr Doc,
2 Applications a day on R Knee, L Shoulder, Lower Back and Both Hands. That plus four 300mm Gabapentin, two Tramadol and a Blood Thinner and Statin for 'bad' Low Chloresterol a day ( plus the every 6 month Steroid and now Gel injections ) have kept me walking and living a somewhat normal life including Modeling fun. To be fair, we are rapidly approaching Surgery-ville on the spine, shoulder and knee. All before I turn 70. I'm surviving. Too much I want to do yet. Now, back to the King Tiger(s)
regards,
Painless

Good Evening!
Parts came in today! Picked them up at the Post Office before heading to Walsenburg on a gasoline run for my Jeep. Some periscope details for Griffys M5 and lifting lugs for the new King Tiger along with Convoy lights for both of the Big Cats...
regards,
Painless
Time to have some more Fun!

Carsten from Tank-Modellbau has some nice stuff!
Got a couple of Saukopf mantlets from him for some StuGs of mine.
Rob.

Rob!
He is a Good guy for sure! He keeps an updating selection of stuff that is usually just what I am looking for. He still ships direct to the US. I have to get Forgebear to order from most German sites for me and pay them when they have the Stock in hand. Stuff has been weird for some time with overseas shipping.
regards,
Painless

I do not envy you guys overseas, with all your extra shipping costs, customs and such things!

I have always been debt free. Yet if I lived anywhere near one of the UK or German tank and parts sellers, that record might be threatened. Imagine just walking into a store and picking out the parts you need, and the ones you just realized you need, and the ones you didn't know you need, and the ones you think you may someday need, and the ones that are just really cool...

Good Morning,
Last night was fun in good and bad ways. The good fun part was successfully cobbling together the swinging guide/mount for the manual starter. Plastic tubing, Aber brass bolt and lead wire and a steel tube that I am not sure of the provenance of...This was followed up by a slight mod to the existing Jack and Mount using some Voyager brass from the set. That all went well. Then for the final hour of the session, I discovered that in moving the lower around to do the earlier detail work, I had loosened the left Idler mount again... A little back story on this. The idler is mounted using a nicely machined and shimmed block. There is a Grub screw that fixes the idler in place by tightening down a big screw left over from the original HL 'screw into plastic' idler mount. One of these leftover screws has a metal collar over the threads that works very well to keep the idler from working loose as the wheel turns on its bearings. I had no collar for the left idler screw so I had been using shrink tubing for the past decades to give the grub screw something solid to tighten against. Last night after this nth issue of the shrink tubing failing, I got tired of this 'finally' and epoxied a cut to fit brass collar around the left idler screw threads. The grub screw has a solid surface to rest against. Issue resolved. Fitment is good and the idler turns solidly and smoothly on the bearing again. This is important especially when all of the running gear is metal. Next up, installing a working Convoy light!
regards,
Painless

Loving all the little detail bits your adding to it mate

Good Morning, Alan!
Devils in the Details as they say!
regards,
Painless

Stormbringer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 20, 2025 6:05 pm Loving all the little detail bits your adding to it mate

Yes Mr. Painless Wolf is exceptional when it comes to cool detail bits on his builds.

Nice progress Mr. Wolf