discussion Scorpion CVR(T) FV101 - 1:35st scale - AFV

[minitnkr]

Did a bit more this morning, not much....
I applied a gloss coat last night, not everywhere, just to where the decals will go and where I will be applying panel liner.
This morning I applied the decals, not many to go on, front, rear and sides.
Also applied the blue paint to the inside of the little viewing periscope thingies.
Always wondered why its blue?
Made a few splodgies whilst doing that, so will need to go back and tidy up the desert yellow around the periscope frames. Still need to tidy the wheels up too, some paint splatter there too!
Lastly, I painted the ends of the smoke gun thingies as they have a matt black finish on the boxart.
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.......something to do w/laser light?

 

[pjgtech]

Tracks now on, [Phew!]
I ended up fixing the last two wheels on, made sure they were really well attached (last night).
Then today I made up some small spacers (from lolly stick pieces stuck together to make small blocks), and placed them between the wheels, so when I stretched the tracks over the wheels they would not move or be pulled out of whack. Seemed to work ok.
The tracks appear to be too tight to add any track slack, but from a few reference photos, there's not much slack anyway on the real thing?

 

[pjgtech]

For reference, photos showing not much "track slack" on the real thing.
TBH, I think the whole track slack thing is a bit overdone IMHO, and if you look at photos of many tanks, they don't have much slack a lot of the time anyway. I think it adds to the "realism" but it certainly can be overused...

 

[PaulTRose]

Slack track is one of those things with so many variables..... Some tanks have it some dont some have it really bad lol

Track design, road wheel design , front or rear drive, is the tank old (worn out) has it been maintained by the crew especially if its in combat so they havnt had time to adjust it, etc

I always think russian tanks having it worse for some reason.

And dont forget the scorpion is british army..... So it will be looked after better than most......... Otherwise sarnt major will appear with his pacing stick..... And you dont want that

 

[langy71]

If memory serves I seem to think that fitting the tracks on Mrs L's scorpion did exactly what you've written, so they were left for a good couple of days after fixing with tamiys 'normal' glue to give a good solid bond.

 

[wasdale32]

seeing you build this now makes me want to build the scimitar,
I wonder if any body has done the more 'modern' sabre version of this ?

SMM do a Sabre conversion for the AFV Scorpion

 

[langy71]

Got chased up salisbury plain by one of these during an exercise a fair few years ago, the P.C. and me were doing a quick sneaky recce on a 'target' and all of a sudden one of these appeared from nowhere and made a direct run for us, it almost caught us as we floored the landrover we were using..

I think they 'tank crew' were ordered just to spook us if they saw us, gotta admit I was a bit more than spooked I can tell you...