SimonT - 1/76th Airfix Sdkfz.7 Halftrack

[Guest]

Afternoon Simon ( in your world .)

Hope your feeling better, I've put some fresh Lizard legs in the post.
You must be the only person Time Lord with the old school flexible bench ! .

John.

[SimonT]

Are those lizard legs?

No, it's just the way I'm standing :smiling5:

Feeling much better thanks

Pared down the other side rail tonight then chopped the main centre section about to remove some incorrect details and thin down others

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the three parts were then joined together and weighed down in an attempt to keep things square as the glue drys

[Lee Drennen]

Looking good Simon chicken soup is always good especially home made

[Guest]

At first Simon I thought you had taken a hammer to it in anger !! :flushed:
Press on ,( sorry ) as they say.

Taxi !

[Si Benson]

Thinking the Sdkfz has exceeded its weight limit with that mr T:smiling5:

[Mini Me]

Nice paper weight!!:thumb2:

[Steve Jones]

Nice weight usage Mr T. I must get some weights as the wifes Murano glass paperweights are too big and keep squashing everything:smiling5::smiling6:

MATRON!! More pills and dont forget to call the taxi!:smiling2:

[papa 695]

Don’t know how I missed this Simon, looking good so far, I’m in watching now.

[Guest]

Don’t know how I missed this Simon, looking good so far, I’m in watching now.

Quite easy Ian as Mr T posts at some very odd times of the day. :smiling2: so he get swept down the postings.
John.

[Steve Jones]

Well he is from the dark side John and only feels safe to come out at night in search of his lizard legs:smiling5:

[Fernando N]

Another late arrival here too, nice start on this one Simon.:thumb2:
Like many others I have some childhood memories of this kit too, looking forward to see what modifications you’ll give the old kit.:smiling:

[SimonT]

Lee - afraid my soup comes in a tin courtesy of Heinz :smiling:

John - not yet....

Si - may have strained the springs slightly

Rick - it would make a good paperweight

Steve - :thumb2:

Ian - as John says I do end up posting at odd times of day

Fernando - thanks for looking in. Mods are under way


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it was almost impossible to photograph but I have added the rolled edge to the front mud guards and all along the track guards using micro rod - just about see the red line

I also cut the body panel detail into the front end

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with the three pieces of chassis now joined I removed all the incorrect bits from between the sides and trimmed everything down to just leave the rails

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I made a start on adding back some detail - chassis rail top flange added from micro strip

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final drive housings were sawn off with the JLC razor saw and moved forward and up slightly to match the scale plans

this is required because the gearbox does not connect directly into the final drive, like the kit shows, but rather via a gear in a smaller housing on the side of the final drive housing

(former MM members may remember I did the same mods to the old inaccurate Tamiya 1/35 Sd.7)

the smaller housing was added from a punched disk - I offset the plastic card in the punch so that the resulting punched bit had a chunk taken out of one side like a pacman to allow it to fit up to the final drive housing

starting to look a little more Sdkfz.7 like

[Mini Me]

Yes it is. Looking forward to the next update.
Cheers, Rick H.

[Steve Jones]

Not heard of micro rod so I looked it up. I can get 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4mm. However would this not just be stiff wire?? Or are you using a plastic version?? Also do you glue it on and then quickly clean all the glue off? Any info on the use of this material would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Steve
I might be wrong, but it looks like Simon is using Slaters plastic rod...it’s red plastic and comes In sizes from 10thou upwards. It is not like evergreen rod at all. It has quite a hard texture and can splinter if cut roughly. Ideal for this application though, and a mixed pack will last years. I have 10, 20, 30, and 40 thou and they are well over thirty years old now....

Great work Simon, by the way, always love the way you bring these dinosaurs up to scratch....