WWI British Tank Crew Vignette
The ICM kit started thoughts about this project...
I forgot to make pictures from the very start, so this is about 8 hours from the start.
Conical shape of the cannon barrel solved - two aluminium tubes 3-4mm dia. super-glued together and then "hand-turned" using Proxxon and some files and knives...
About 18 hours? Rivets made by punch-die tool, but I will have to tune their heads to be "rouded"...
Yesterday, I tried to tune the rivet heads using "kornovák" (a goldsmith tool). I think that is the way it will work!
A little step forward.
More rivets, nuts and bolts.
Added some details to the suspension part.
I made some mistakes during measuring and upscaling the kit, so I needed to make new, bigger track link...
Track link ready for cloning.
Rivet Snow!
Half the way...
Rivet heads rounded...
...and primed for further work.
The track links are here! Look perfect. Thanks to P.B.!
Yeah, this is much better look!
Komentáře
11 November 2019, 13:06
TreehuggerInteresting 🙂 I guess you might consider buying the tracks separately.
11 November 2019, 14:36
Pavel ŠenkI'm trying to buy some surplus tracks on models exchange, otherwise I will scratch one piece and make some copies... The original Takom is quite expensive for my purpose - more than 3/4 of it would go to sparebox :-[
11 November 2019, 15:18
Pavel ŠenkNo, just a front part of the right side, it will be just a vignette focused mainly on the figures 🙂
11 November 2019, 15:48
AckiNice figures. I have them also in the bench. If your in need for parts of the tracks I habe a very few from the Tamiya kit. You could make a copy.
12 November 2019, 20:10
Patrick HagelsteinIntriguing way to model that barrel and those rivets. Creative! 👍
12 November 2019, 20:46
Pavel ŠenkHello, thanks to one modeller from our contry, I have now three track links to clone them 🙂
19 November 2019, 09:48
Pavel ŠenkActually, the scratching seems to be complete and I am waiting for cloned track links (I had to scratch them too, due to a mistake with upscaling the scratch)... During this time, I will start the work on the ICM figures.
14 January 2020, 13:02
