M3 Grant, 7th British Armored Division (Desert Rats)

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M3 Grant, 7th British Armored Division (Desert Rats)

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Two day ago i start my new Project

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This will be my colorscheme

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First i cut out the Front and rebuilt this to the old Series

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all Details are missing yet

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I has to modified the right transmission, to get some Space for the Canon. The room there is very small

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The Basic of the Hull is done so far.

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Looks like al little an Granti :P

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I cut out of an old Pershing this little thing ( don´t know the exactly word for this in english, we call this Tankdeckel )

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Then i buildt an little Case out of 2 mm Plasticsheed and fill this up, with Powerputty ( Pattex ). Then i push the Tankdeckel in there


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At the Waiting Time i was building the Case for the Canon and fill this up with Resin, for make this stronger. Tommorow i will sand this to bring it more in Form

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Hm, looks a little like an M3 :P

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Looks good! Your builds are always interesting.

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Excellent build, really like this one. Not to often has this been attempted let alone built. But your not doing Matilda? Saxondog
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Thanks my friends

Well, i would like to have an Matilda II, Queen of Desert, but i didnt found a away what i can choose for the chains :lolno:
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Manuel your doing just fine, if anyone could build it your the one. Please keep the pictures coming, this is so helpful to everyone. Seeing the possibilities are always a motivation to all modelers. Sax
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Thanks my friend ;)


ok, what was i doing yesterday.

First i put some struktur at some Parts

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Bolts at the Chassies and modified the Boggies

Torro Original

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It´s just an compromise, but it looks good and it works

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A bit heavy to do was the holes, so i took an 1,5mm Brass Pieces

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and made this hot

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the rest i cut of

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the front with details

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Today i buildt the feders out of brass.

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Holders

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The right Fender fits with 4 Screws. If you remove the Screws you can come easly to the Sprocket Wheel

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The left Bumper fit with the Top

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Bumper finnished

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great work, just love your builds
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so slowly goes sometimes in a few details. For this, however, also for the next projects I will bump over and over again into returning parts and there I no desire always have to carve the same things, I have made to myself easy forms.

First I was founded from 2 mm of HP of records the small cases which I filled in with power plasticine of Pattex. Under the before prepared old model I stuck a small clutch, virtually like a stamp even some dividing means sprayed on the component and pushed selbiges in the power plasticine. I provided the Klebeseite of the component, on this occasion, in such a way that it was level-shortly with the HP case. Now I allowed to harden my forms increases hours and concerned me, in the meantime, around the Kwk, however, in addition later.

After the forum was hardened I touched my Resin, according to manufacturer's data and mixed this substantially. Briefly before the Befüllen I moisten the surface of the little forms again with dividing means to be able to take the almost ready parts better from the form later.



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For both forms or components reach, actually, 4 grammes, however, for safety's sake I always touch 6-8 grammes.

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Then, finally, after a next hour I could take the first parts from the form.

Tataaaaaaaa

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Now make up only every component 5 times and something and the things can be already obstructed groupwave

Further gings with the main arming. On my small Hutschelkutscheldrehbank is funny, er conical do not turn really feasibly, hence, I rummaged in the summer party through the assortment of Asiatam and got stuck with a panther's pipe in a good basket lay. nimmste sometimes with, because kannste what make out of that. Briefly measure, fits, turn away a little here and there (see red sketched line) and the pipe is ready.

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In the aluminium pipe continuous 6 mm of drilling was already. I took a short-cut 6 mm of MS pipe suitably and stuck this approx. 20 mm deep in the aluminium pipe.

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From approx. 23 mm Resin the full material which came from the leftovers box of Jens I was founded the roller. Brought first again on suitable length, I clamped the cylinder in the lathe and planned the surfaces on top and below from.

Unfortunately, Resin has the stupid quality if one liked to work on it with a Laubsäger which she seals immediately the sheet and nothing more goes, so what do?! There has to go on jedenfall 4 corners in the round *grübel2
I taped the surface to be worked out upon the block, stretched the part in my vice and bored in every corner first 2 mm of hole. Then I clamped to me a suitable drill (Dremel or Proxxon, I do not know any more exactly) in the state drill. On the drilling table I fastened with two vices a stable aluminium corner as a guidance and provided the way to be milled. So to speak, as impromptu Tischstandfräse. Now I needed only the vice along the aluminium rail slowly and steadily to move how a step engine to and fro. With the other hand I virtually adjusted the feed in Z-axis. In the kind and wise one I got a rather clean rectangular recess in the round Resinblöckchen.

Now the block directly after the relaxating, had to clean I only the edges with a file.

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In the next tap dance I wanted to insert the roller for lateral directing of the KWK flexibly in the Kasematte, but anyhow the drill chuck of the accumulator power-operated wrench simply did not want there reinpassen *?!?

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If I improvise just once more....


.... nevertheless, nevertheless, somewhere in my tool case I had, oh there isses

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The best is if one simply disassembles the irritating part...

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... and clamps in the accumulator drill as a lengthening, nicely claps also with the hole bore, without Qwick Qwick. I hate this good damn noise

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OK, below in the roller I screwed and on top 1 M2 of screw, she protected with second glue and separated in each case the heads, was already swivelling wohohoho

Now, gings to the function Höhenrichten.

In addition I was founded for the moment from 1 mm of HP a semicircular little form, bored in front in the later screen 6 mm of hole and stuck together my pipe KWK in it. To straighten was very helpful, by the way, the grid lines of my guts mat.
In the case I poured Resin in again, waited to this was hardened and then removed both lateral HP of records.

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On the left and right in the cradle 1.5 mm of hole bored, in the roller 4 mm of hole (Kofpdurchmesser of the screw) and then 1 m² of cheese-head screw screwed. The head of the screw serves me here as a storage. Because the part is not moved so often, I have renounced pipes MS as an additional storage. The mechanics from the inside seen. I become the Servos here later, in the course of the installation of the electronics mti plant.

Here for me interesting, above all the combining of the material is a metal HP and Resin. By pouring out different parts with Resin, a huge stability arises here in the easiest, but also most actual way.

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and now thus the part looks from the front

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Had I already mentioned, actually, that I have, in the meantime, already a few (hundred) rivets and Schraubimitate obstructed ones?

Thus the box looks at the moment

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freedom of movement

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and in the end updates still a small insignificant detail, fuel edges of the front records

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