discussion SimonT - 1/72 Dragon Stug.IIIE - Bobs StugGB

[Jim R]

Hi Simon
Missed this - sorry. Not much in the kit but plenty of errors and omissions so right up your street. That splitting of the wheel is a labour of patience but looks great.
Jim

 

[SimonT]

Thanks one and all

Jim - took about an hour to do the one wheel going around and around with the Olfa P Cutter slowly making the groove deeper until it broke through

 

[stillp]

I had to google 'Olfa P cutter', but thanks for the explanation - I was wondering how you did it. I'd have guessed you used a saw, but that's more of a scriber.
Pete

 

[SimonT]

Hi Pete - yes it removes a thin line of plastic each time. The tools are also now sold under licence by Tamiya

Start by placing the wheel on a flat surface then line up the scriber with the middle by either raising the wheel or the scriber on shims of plastic card as appropriate

Slowly turn the wheel and you should get a nice straight groove around the circumference. Once started you can then just hold the wheel and keep running the tool around the groove

 

[BattleshipBob]

Excellent work Simon

Another superb build!!

 

[Lee Drennen]

Nice as always

 

[Graeme C.]

The kit does look a bit 'basic' Simon, but as usual you're making improvements to it, looking forward to the next installment.

 

[SimonT]

Bob, Lee, Graeme - thanks


a really bad photo of the rear end - you will just have to take my word for it when I say that I have added the rear flanges from pewter to replace the rubbish moulded items


kit jack

replaced with one of my scratched and cast items


another bad photo - details added to gun barrel housing


moulded tool box sliced off


which left a hole in the track guard


that got filled in with plastic strip ready for a new box

and that was that, the end of the weekend yet again :sad-face:

 

[Steven000]

Hi Simon, yes weekends fly by too fast :disappointed2:, but it's looking good :thumb2: Nice details as usual.
Steven

 

[Steve Jones]

Nice to see you changing everything I didn't LOL The way my figures are going I think it would have been easier to do what you are doing LOL

 

[Jim R]

Morning Simon
Hope the rain hasn't left you or sister with problems. It has certainly been rough around the country.
Like Peter I imagined the wheel had been razor sawed. As always your scratching abilities are raising the quality/accuracy of this to a new level.
Jim

 

[Road of Bones]

Ah yes - I'd forgotten about the good old SimonT "picture on the knee" updates...:smiling:

 

[Mini Me]

That happens to be his "work bench" :tongue-out3: lol. Rick H.

 

[scottie3158]

Simon,
Normal cracking work mate.

 

[Steve Jones]

Ah yes - I'd forgotten about the good old SimonT "picture on the knee" updates...:smiling:

It's the "picture on the knee wearing shorts" you want to stay clear of Alistair LOL

 

[SimonT]

Steven - thanks

Steve - not at all happy with it, see below......

Jim - she escaped thanks, only reached 4.5m over this time. Cheers

Al - yes still using the knees

Rick - very useful they are too

Scottie - thanks

Steve - it's ok, my knees don't do shorts


picked it up to do a little more tonight but just not happy with it so it got a short back and sides



after a bit of clean up I stuck the top to the lower hull



the hull has location marks for the side escape doors of other versions

so they have been removed

all I have to do now is rebuild the rest of it......

 

[Mini Me]

Damned model manufacturers! Just once, it would be nice if you could build it out of the box without having to redesign their incompetent efforts!! Mr. T, you have my sincere condolences.

Rick H.

 

[Lee Drennen]

Simon. Are you like me sometimes you have a “lap bench” I call it and sit in your recliner chair and build? Every time I see that knee post I think of that. Nice progress anyway

 

[SimonT]

Rick - it would. These used to be nice kits. The detail on the sides of the lower hull still shows some of the previous high quality. For some reason they have chosen to dumb them down but keep the prices the same - oh, that would be the reason, to make more money from inferior kits!

Lee - no recliner. I sit on the floor, leaning on a beanbag, and use the knees

 

[Jim R]

picked it up to do a little more tonight but just not happy with it so it got a short back and sides

Well there's a surprise. Your modelling technique seems to be three steps forward and two back. You always nearly always get there though in the end :tongue-out3:
Glad the rain didn't get you. Been seeing some heartbreaking scenes on TV.
Jim