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No worry, you're off to a great start with so many scratch built sections!

PainlessWolf wrote:Alpha,
What did you have to redo?
regards,
Painless

The gun mech hatch.... took the entire upper apart.... the good thing was that it wasn't as bad as I thought... bad thing is ... I had to take the entire upper apart ...Silver lining... I went over the entire upper took care of everything...so now things can move forward again ...................

ALPHA

SovereignZuul wrote:No worry, you're off to a great start with so many scratch built sections!

Thanks Zuul...still plenty of build left...and a lot of concepts as well as decisions to make...the good thing is I "can" see the light at the end of the tunnel

ALPHA

ALPHA wrote:

SovereignZuul wrote:No worry, you're off to a great start with so many scratch built sections!

Thanks Zuul...still plenty of build left...and a lot of concepts as well as decisions to make...the good thing is I "can" see the light at the end of the tunnel

ALPHA

And the light is not a train coming the other way !
If you hadn't have said-we wouldnt have noticed, well I wouldnt have mate.

HERMAN BIX wrote:

ALPHA wrote:

SovereignZuul wrote:No worry, you're off to a great start with so many scratch built sections!

Thanks Zuul...still plenty of build left...and a lot of concepts as well as decisions to make...the good thing is I "can" see the light at the end of the tunnel

ALPHA

And the light is not a train coming the other way !
If you hadn't have said-we wouldnt have noticed, well I wouldnt have mate.

That thought did cross my mind Herman ....Thing was I noticed...kept on noticing.... and even though it seemed ok...the train kept a rollin all night long... and with a heave and a ho... I fixed it

ALPHA

Good news.... no more pictures lol............. for some reason Photobucket is problematic... so no more photos
just descriptions of the progress

After refitting a new maintenance hatch... secured my gun mount... and progressed to making a gun support... it's all metal...aside from the magnetic bumpers which were made out of sprue works great...
This was after two days of studying diagrams...3hours into a plastic prototype that failed....a day of searching for an alternate material ...which thanks to the suggestion from Green Giant...turned out to be the steel bottom from a tin can....after ten hours of work ...it turned out excellent... being I don't have photos ...you all will have to take my word for it

I will also have to thank Sassgrunt for lending me all the research material

Now the front is complete...on to the tail end then the middle

HAPPY TANKING GENTS

ALPHA

Started on the Tail end of the tank... made the shields... Photobucket still sucking lemons...so ..... sorry no photos

HAPPY TANKING GENTS

ALPHA

Is what it is..........means there will be a photobucketload of them once its sorted

HERMAN BIX wrote:Is what it is..........means there will be a photobucketload of them once its sorted

I don't know about those people who run photobucket.... they have like three video commercials with sound ...running all at once...and now they have a promo which pops up when you sign in.... don't think any comp set up can handle that much media at once... it's just stupid

ALPHA

imgur.com is by far the best photo hosting site imo. That's what I use. No photos have ever disappeared and they are super fast with 99% uptime.