TAMIYA SU 76 WW2

[Guest]

Glad ou're back and up and running again John, almost time for you to start on your rubble piles..:thumb2::thumb2:

Brad ......... how did you guess ! :smiling2:
There will be rubble as the front of the lower section of the room will be in the street. !!

Found a U tube video last night where a guy was using a vernier to mark out the width of bricks. So simple but highly effective. Once the width was set and locked he used a straight edge to run the tool down. Definitely going to attempt this method.
Thanks for looking in.

John.

[scottie3158]

John,
Glad your feeling better my friend, now stop lying about and get some models built:tongue-out3:

[Guest]

Brad ......... how did you guess ! :smiling2:
There will be rubble as the front of the lower section of the room will be in the street. !!

Found a U tube video last night where a guy was using a vernier to mark out the width of bricks. So simple but highly effective. Once the width was set and locked he used a straight edge to run the tool down. Definitely going to attempt this method.
Thanks for looking in.

John.

That would be interesting, could you post a link or the http please.

[Graeme C.]

Hi John, glad you're getting over your illness, been full of cold for a week myself, as Billy Connolly said, there's a bug going round.....
Dzohn's brick works will soon be back up & running again.:rolling::smiling2:

[Guest]

That would be interesting, could you post a link or the http please.[/QUOTE.
I' ved tried the first link and removed it so rtyh this .
Modeling with foamboard

Rik Martens
This time I found another post from him.The second on the list is the one I watched .
I tried his method, but found although it kept the measurements correct the tips on my tool are not pointed enough. But the idea is great, hope the link works , see what you think, it would be interesting to hear.
John.

[Guest]

Good evening from Race Towers.
A better but cold day I spent much of yesterday putting those Friul tracks together. The drilling out part was fun, only drilled my finger once and that was enough not to do it again :flushed:.

Started to put them together, decided to use the double sided tape method, all well and good, but you can imagine the fun with having limited depth of field. Getting the wire into the hole was fun looking back, no wonder it took me a total of 5 hrs just to put 3/4 of the track together. Twice when I did a fit it came apart:tears-of-joy: where I had missed fitting a wire pin. Several times I actually went into the foam off cut which was supporting the tape, :smiling::smiling: Oh well one is nearly done so the next should take less time. :nerd::flushed::anguished:

Cut the wires before fitting, then realised there wouldn't be enough wire, thanks to a guy on U tube who just cut great oversized lengths. I had to use some thin wire on a couple of the first run so as not to run out. nSo now I fit the wire, then cut to size. every now and again I notice I'd gone straight through the link, ....... well that makes it easier for me, at least I know its in.:smiling3:

Fitted the rear wheel , just like a road wheel , very strange to me , but with that glued on I was able to gauge the length. The Friul front sprocket needed some cleaning up ,,,, and the locating hole on the body enlarging. CA here I suppose.

It was a this point I noticed I had a road wheel missing. I was really careful I thought to put all the wheels into a plastic cup. There is going to be a complete search of the work bench and floor tomorrow and a report made to Kremlin !!!
At The same time I noticed I had a suspension arm missing as well. Now these were all fitted, so somewhere on the bench as the model has not been anywhere else. With out more ado I scratched one from a piece of sprue, cut to length and sanded flat on the rear to give a better surface area it was glued on. The centre hole enlarged to take the over sized pin.

I give you a nearly completed track, but well worth the effort.[ATTACH]323042[/ATTACH]
John.

[scottie3158]

John,

I have used those tracks a few times and your right drilling the fingers is not fun I found the easiest way was to set the drill in the holder so when It bottoms out it goes in deep enough but doesn't come out the other side. But they are worth the effort in the end.

[Guest]

John,

I have used those tracks a few times and your right drilling the fingers is not fun I found the easiest way was to set the drill in the holder so when It bottoms out it goes in deep enough but doesn't come out the other side. But they are worth the effort in the end.

DUH.................. Paul I why didn't I think of that. I shall try to remember on my next set, thanks
( Steve do not answer that :smiling4: )
John.

[BattleshipBob]

Evening John

Sorry, a tad late! Used them a few times and look very good but, lots of drilling etc ll

[Si Benson]

Nice work John,
The fruils look nice and will certainly give your SU76 some weight. I’ll treat myself to a set one of these days :smiling4:

[Lee Drennen]

John
Looks good but I’m afraid after completing those tracks nurse ratchet would have to double my meds

[Mini Me]

I like them also but have to agree with Lee. Mind numbing! Matron...more meds please.
Cheers, Rick H.

[Guest]

Evening John

Sorry, a tad late! Used them a few times and look very good but, lots of drilling etc ll

Hi Bob. .....sorry its Russian ! :smiling:

Nice work John,
The fruils look nice and will certainly give your SU76 some weight. I’ll treat myself to a set one of these days :smiling4:

Thanks Si........ Will be worth it in the end, they just take time, but look so good when on.

John
Looks good but I’m afraid after completing those tracks nurse cratchet would have to double my meds

Lee........ I'm on enough now !

I like them also but have to agree with Lee. Mind numbing! Matron...more meds please.
Cheers, Rick H.

Rick..... I find the thing to do is just switch off, of course tying yourself into your chair is important in case you should fall out she you wander to far.:flushed::flushed::flushed::flushed:
John.
Thanks guys, might be more tomorrow, perhaps a photo of a link !
John

[Guest]

Small report.
Give me foam board any day.!
After several hrs the second set is nearly completed. Having attempted to get the correct length on the first track several times only to have the odd link come apart at the stopped end.
This resulted in sg debonder being applied, after a lot of muttering the pin would come out. I then had to re drill the links and this time go through the end. Its the only way to ensure that the wire is in !
These tracks are really small, compared to a KV or Tiger.
I did manage to join the first set eventually, but in the process knocked half the pe brkts for the towing cable off. Where they have gone is anyone's guess.
I have decided to get the second sets to the length of the first, get them cleaned up on the wire ends then painted. In the final fit I'm not going to try to join them together, but glue the tracks to the bottom of the road wheels and have the join under a wheel. This way the sag can look right and any rubble hide the join.
Make some new brkts from spare pe
Annoyed that I can't see the bloody holes to line them up, let alone get the wire in while trying to hold it all together. Not often I have to admit defeat !
Annoyed :disappointed: of Linc's.

[Si Benson]

Morning Mr R,
Sound like the moggeling pixies are being mean to you! Think I saw one of your PE brackets on my kitchen floor:smiling5:

Whichever way this goes,you’ll always get 10 out of 10 for effort from me mate:thumb2: