VT-55 ARV 1:72

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October 2, 2019
upper and lower hull
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October 2, 2019
tracks
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October 2, 2019
a lot of them small parts
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October 2, 2019
some larger parts
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October 2, 2019
PE
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October 4, 2019
Then you pay 45€ for a resin kit, these are the instructions, and the only parts resembling the parts given are the wheels and upper hull, most parts don't look like the drawing or are mounted in a complete different way... Sigh
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October 14, 2019
thickness of the fenders ok on this side
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October 14, 2019
but not on this side
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October 14, 2019
some scraping later...
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October 14, 2019
added the torsion bars.
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October 16, 2019
fenders are a bit warped
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October 16, 2019
pure gold in this case...
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October 16, 2019
left rear was still a bit warped, but this is corrected now
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October 16, 2019
Cleaning up the membranes in the wheel openings...
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October 21, 2019
before(R) and after(L)
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October 21, 2019
and the other side
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October 21, 2019
baseplate of the working platform soldered
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October 21, 2019
bottomside of the platform
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October 21, 2019
almost finished the sides of the platform. Took me a while to figure out how these were mounted, but these are ingenious... one outer shell with raised detail, one inner shell with lowered detail and the railings, nicely fitting together
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October 21, 2019
baseparts for the material boxes.. this is the easy part..
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October 21, 2019
now I have to add a ton of these
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October 21, 2019
like this... and when you take up these parts with tweezers... they are invisible...
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October 21, 2019
made some progress clearing all the openings in the wheels... Over halfway...
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November 3, 2019
platform almost ready
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November 3, 2019
platform almost ready
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November 3, 2019
platform almost ready
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November 3, 2019
first box ready
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November 3, 2019
first box ready
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November 3, 2019
cut some (very) tiny pieces of solder
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November 3, 2019
apply these to the corresponding places with a bit of flux and heat them up
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November 3, 2019
minimal amount of tin where needed
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November 3, 2019
apply some tin to the parts while at the fret and cut them as close to the edge as possible
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November 3, 2019
add some flux, flas-ce the part in it and heat it up with the soldering iron... all done.
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November 3, 2019
nice collection....
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December 7, 2019
models cannot fly... unfortunately it came down as a tank...
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December 10, 2019
restored, so far no holes drilled and copper bars added... hope it won't be a necessity
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December 10, 2019
started dressing up and looking how the fit will be
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December 10, 2019
started dressing up and looking how the fit will be
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December 10, 2019
how the tracks are molded
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December 10, 2019
tracks will be a real pain to clean, let alone to make em fit ....
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December 13, 2019
first piece almost cleaned... 1.5h for this... still a lot to do...
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December 13, 2019
Remade the support for the crane to get rid of the gaps
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December 13, 2019
Better fit, crane itself is also better aligned
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December 13, 2019
next problem, dozer blade in "up" position
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December 13, 2019
remade the cylinder
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December 13, 2019
and mounted, still needs to be cut at length
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December 13, 2019
Cast cilinder removed
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December 13, 2019
dry-fit

Comments

1 2 October 2019, 10:23

Bart Goesaert
managed to finish the tiny bits on the boxes... also added a small how to...

3 November 2019, 22:24

Scott Dutton
What you achieve in this scale is amazing

3 November 2019, 22:39

Bart Goesaert
Thx

4 November 2019, 06:44

Bart Goesaert
and the model took a plunge, with known result... started fixing it allready, but luckily i didn't apply the small PE and parts yet...

7 December 2019, 07:43

Thomas K.
respect! you are crazy! 😉

7 December 2019, 16:50

Bart Goesaert
I know, luckily the breaking points were rather clean... so cleaning this mess was rather straightforward. That cant be said about the tracks... these will be a major pain to clean, the outside for one half of the tracks is molded almost completely shut...

10 December 2019, 15:21

Alec K
This is quite a project Bart. The soldering alone would kill me 😄. Looks great so far. As far as tracks go, I say go for aftermarket set (please don't say it will cost more, I read how much you already paid for this kit😉 ). Cheers 👍

10 December 2019, 15:37

Bart Goesaert
Thx. The soldering went pretty fast imho... at least faster then I've thought it would be, with almost no lost parts too. I will try to save these, if it doesn't work out, maybe I'll take the tracks from my Su-122-54 in the meantime... This one has a deadline of four weeks for a groupbuild... Hope they accept naked kits...

10 December 2019, 17:04

Alec K
Well, if you have a deadline, it's a different story 👍

10 December 2019, 17:17

Bart Goesaert
threw in the towel and ordered these from ACE: [img1]