Beautiful work. :) On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Deborah A Chase <[email protected]> wrote:
> Amazing!!![image: 😮] deb[image: ☺] > On May 26, 2015 11:00 PM, "Bones" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been a busy busy this year with one thing and another and cardmodels >> have taken a back seat. However the weekly visits to old mate PICNIC have >> continued and little by little the Fury M4 has been progressing. Today I >> managed to get one track on, boy are they a horror show !. Each track has >> 110 grousers on it and each one has to be cut, folded, trimmed and then >> glued on so it's taking a while. >> >> I've done about 5/6 of the second track and hopefully once that's done >> it's only a hatch, a head and a few other bits and pieces before the whole >> thing is completed. PICNIC is building one for himself and two more for his >> grand kids so he reckons he'll be in a home for the deranged by the time he >> fits all the track grousers. If anyone builds this don't do what I >> did...that is to build the whole thing in 150gsm card, build the hull out >> of 200 or better because the hull isn't quite strong enough in 150 and the >> road wheels and top sag inwards. Not a problem with the top as the turret >> covers that problem but the road wheels tend to pop inwards at the top and >> the only way to straighten them back out is with the track. This means >> gluing the track on to the road wheels and holding the whole rig until it >> dries...tedious !. >> >> Nice model though all in all. >> >> Bones >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Papermodels II" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Papermodels II" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
