It is an excellent work! (y)
On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 12:00:28 AM UTC-4, Bones 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.
