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Simon T Memorial GB: Nov-Feb 2020. Chat thread
I’ve been kicking around the idea of building this for some time now: It’ll require an awful lot of scratch building, and a bit of cut’n shut as my donor MAN truck is a 6-wheeler, not 8, but I reckon Si would have approved. (I may even tackle a bit of resin-casting for this too...)- Road of Bones
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- Forum: Simon T memorial GB: Nov-Feb 2020
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Too Hot!!
Try watching a few of these being rolled in this weather... (Coiling temp around 900C)- Road of Bones
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- Forum: Chit-Chat
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
Which is what I have here, I believe ...- Road of Bones
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
Wouter, Jim, John- thanks for the kind words gents! :smiling2: Been doing a fair old bit of guitaring these last weeks- I resurrected my first ever Strat (replaced all the electrics and got it playing properly again), bought a new amp (Boss Katana), and started rehearsing bass with my metal...- Road of Bones
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
Great to see so many of you looking in gents:thumb2: Gets the mojo bubbling nicely once more... Got a little done today- built the remote servos for the spotting MG: Then I decided to make the tarp covers for the turret basket. I cut up a used nitrile glove (pretty sure most of us have a few...- Road of Bones
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
Er...hello? Ok if I come back inside? Hope everyone is ok? :sick: Well, after 4 months of working from home, where my workbench became my office, my Mojo took a crippling blow. I’m back at the steelworks full-time now, so I get my home workbench back- huzzah!:nerd: At the start of the...- Road of Bones
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Resin kits????
I rather like a resin kit, to be honest. They do tend to need a bit more fettling to get stuff to fit, and if you stick it with CA it can be rather difficult to un-stick if you make a mistake. You can get great results out of them though- here’s the Legend MaxxPro I did a few years ago (now...- Road of Bones
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
Scottie, Jim Steve- thanks for your continued support chaps! Been struggling to get some bench time recently, but a cooler day today drove me back indoors and a return to the Magach. Today I managed to make the mantlet blazer panels, and the smoke discharger boxes, all from plastic card, PE...- Road of Bones
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
Well, after a week’s hiatus, followed by a weekend in the hammock, the cooler conditions today merited a return to the bench. First order of business was to complete the blazer panels for the port side of the turret, and I also used a spare PE bracket to make the mounting point for the loader’s...- Road of Bones
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
Thanks Richard! :smiling: Blazer armour then...I made a 20mm wide panel of double-thick card, and dug out some unused PE slats from the D9R Doobi build: I then cut the card into some 3mm wide strips, and used some of the PE slats to make the frames that the ERA blocks are mounted in (basically...- Road of Bones
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
Mike, Jakko, Richard- thanks for commenting chaps, and for the detail knowledge-sharing :thumb2: Had a productive day at the bench today- I tackled the gun barrel. The US M60A3 barrel has a smooth thermal shroud either side of the fume extractor. The IDF have a clamped thermal cover, probably...- Road of Bones
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
Thanks for the input Richard, Jakko :thumb2: I love your Magach Richard- looks to be an early one, with the M48 turret. The figures are especially nice (but your figures usually are!). Si- good to see you! Find some pics of yours, if you would. scottie- thanks sir! Well, after a week of...- Road of Bones
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
Si- I expect that version could probably still benefit from a sprinkle of Mr T dust to bring it up to scratch! ;) Steve- Thanks sir! It’s actually quite fun to work in miniscule scale for once:nerd: Greg- good to have you along again! Hopefully I’ll meet your expectations:thumb2: Spent the day...- Road of Bones
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
Haha- no sneaking anything past you guys, eh? :nerd: Thanks for the input Jakko, Mike :thumb2: Making the glacis plate ERA blocks was an exercise in cutting and trimming, and life was made slightly easier when I hit on the idea of using PE fret to depict the bolted brackets that attach the...- Road of Bones
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Magach 6B Gal- converting a Braille-scale M60A3
What ho gents! With the pigments settling on the Merkava, it seems I am not yet done with that part of the world...while casting about for a quick build to pass the time, I found this in the stash: I had a sudden flash- why not have a go at converting this into one of my favourite subjects...- Road of Bones
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Chariot of Fire- Meng Merkava IIID
Steve, Scottie - thanks muchly gents! The figures were completed, with the addition of a headphone wire on the left hand side of each helmet: Here they are in place: Calling this one done now! Here are a few shots of the result: Thanks to everyone who looked in, left a like, and commented...- Road of Bones
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Chariot of Fire- Meng Merkava IIID
Evening all. Spent tonight working with ground pastels to add a patina of dust to the beast, as well as some diesel soot around the exhaust grille. I scraped the tips of some yellow, pale cream and Indian red pastels and mixed the resulting pile of dust with a knife blade, before using a dry...- Road of Bones
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Chariot of Fire- Meng Merkava IIID
Steve, Jim, Allen, Ian- most kind of you, gents! :flushed: Wouter- that’s a beauty, though I do prefer the more cluttered asymmetrical lines of the Mk IIID :nerd:. You’ve always had a lovely touch with your weathering- thanks for sharing those pictures:thumb2: Mike- thanks sir, read on... Time...- Road of Bones
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Chariot of Fire- Meng Merkava IIID
Jim- thrice wow? :dizzy: Many thanks! Allen- I did have a clogged ball or two, but a bit of careful tweaking saw them de-clogged:tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy: Wouter- did you ever share your Merk IV? I’d love to see what you did with one:nerd: PaulE- thanks brother! Scottie- saw what you did...- Road of Bones
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