Chieftain mk5

[Jimster]

Awesome soldering skills! Your detailing is first rate.

[tomhugill]

Awesome soldering skills! Your detailing is first rate.

Thank you! My solderings pretty rough, but I can use a needle file ok to tidy my mess!!

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[tomhugill]

Those of a nervous disposition look away now (surgery pictures inbound!)

After looking at lots of references for other bits like the headlight guards I realised the front end was totally wrong. I couldn't find any with the snub nose of mine (to be fair this is a fault of the tamiya mk5 on which this is based).

I used a dremel to score the nose where I wanted to bend. This has the nice side effect of heating the pla and making it maliable. The resulting bump was then filled with filler and reprofiled. The lower plate was built up with styrene and cut to fit.



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[tomhugill]

It gets worse, this things having more nose surgery than Jacko. On closer inspection it seemed only the very early versions had a nose without any drop, somemore scoring and being and filling and I think I'm happy. Theres a definite steeper angle and a bevel which I couldn't capture before and lookibg at the lower plate it was too long with the higher nose.

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[BarryC]

Great work Tom.

I have to ask; are the inverted pictures intentional? Holding my laptop upside down is a bit of a challenge!

Barry

[tomhugill]

Thanks Barry. No it seems pot luck when Tapatalk uploads them what the orientation will be, then there's no easy way I can see to sort them

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[Exhibitedbrute]

I rather like this build but I certainly don’t have the patients or skills at the moment to build one

[tomhugill]

Some more progress, refitted the furniture on the nose, bit the bullet and ground down the supports for the skirts and got them fitted, done the ribs on the front fenders and finally fitting the door for the IR lamp, new hinges, stop and some other detail. Staring to look a bit more chieftainy

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[Jimster]

You’re detail modeling is fantastic. Always worthwhile checking into your posts.

[tomhugill]

Cheers Jim! A little bit more done, added the rubber fenders, quite pleased with how they've turned out

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