V2 - Vengeance From Above

[Guest]

Hi Young man and fellow slow moggeller,
Caught up again and still more to impress. Ignore those hecklers, you just carry on at your own sweet paczzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz huh! oh yeah! sorry I was writing this in model speed.
Cheers, Mike.

[scottie3158]

Allen,
Nice mogling it doesn't matter how long it takes its the results that count and yours are always worth waiting for.

[Allen Dewire]

Sorry Guys and Gals, but this isn't an update. I want to acknowledge all you fine folks (even Stevie) for the wonderful support

Rick - Thanks Buddy! I could have bored you with other gory details of the differences between the two. Hopefully, when I have it done, I can do a side by side with the 2WD Blitz...

Stevie - Wow my friend, I hope you are still breathing and can read this. Yea, I ain't the fastest Moggeller, but then I will refer you to Richard's posts. "Nail in the tire"??? I am seriously beginning to worry about your current mental health state my man!!! I told you to roll the window down while running the motor in the Plymouth as the fumes are hazardous to your brain cells...

Jim - Thank you Sir for the kind comment. I just wish I had more time to play. Some days after work, I'm too beat to even put on the optivisor….

Richard - Hey man, you blew me away with the cup of noodles quote. I had to clean up the coffee that got spit out from it!!! I am glad I'm not alone in this matter. I never was a fast builder, but you know the kids today (Stevie), they want instant gratification and that's it. Thanks too for your patience….

PaulE - Thanks my friend, but you probably knew the differences. I want to try and keep it interesting, but not get into boring you all to death….

Ian - No need to be sorry, 10,000 comedians out of work and now we have 10,001. Tanks too Sir!!!

Mike - Between you and Richard, I now have to clean my living room from all the spilt coffee and beer. You kill me Mike and Thanks for your great sense of humor. I will attempt to get something done this weekend. I've been driving quite a bit lately and have had no time to play. Oh, and hecklers, What hecklers??? They are just misunderstood young whippersnappers!!!….

Paul - You are the man and I thank you for your continuing support. I just wish I was as quick as you are my friend….

As some of you might know, I have a big construction project going on across the street from me. Here is a pic of my new stash rooms,

The first one on the left is for my figure kits, the next is for my wheeled vehicle kits, the next for my tank and half track kits and the last one behind the tree, is for wing thingys if I ever get back into them. In front, they are going to pour a large room for all my diorama accessories too. Not too shabby, eh!!!!!

Need a cold one,
Prost
Allen

[Steve Jones]

I'm so sorry Allen. You are perfectly correct - I have indeed lost it. I will go and sit in the corner and then bury my head in the sand.

[Allen Dewire]

Please Stevie,

I can live with you sitting in the corner, but please don't bury your head in the sand. I could never forgive myself for driving you over the edge and your having a permanent DAK look when you pull your head back up...

[Allen Dewire]

Evening Rocketeers,

I know you all have been waiting with baited breath for an update. Ok, this is an update so to speak, but as far as big progress it ain't!!! You know I have been scratching a 4WD version of the Opel Blitz 3ton truck for my T-Stoff tanker. There is a story behind this and it began in the first days of May. I saw a kit in evilbay that would allow me to do the conversion in resin and not use the Plus Model resin kit. It was from ADV Azimut (my favorite) and looked like this,

It uses the basic Italeri kit as a base and includes resin and white metal parts. I wanted it very badly, but I was out bid by €12. It sold with postage, for €54 to the door and too rich for my blood (and my beer money)…..

Ok, I then got this wild hair up my butt and said "hey, I'll just scratch the 4WD stuff myself and call it a day". I then won the Mercedes 3000 4WD conversion from Plus Model, but it was exactly the opposite of what I needed for the Opel. (Are we asleep yet!!!!!!!!!) I modified and scratched up my version and now we will bring Murphy's Law into play. A bit after my last update on the Opel, I found another one of these kits in evilbay and the whole day, it sat at €8,50. I said to myself, "Is it worth it to be over bid again?", as the kit is in demand, but this one was missing a couple of parts. It was missing the cab and the Kofferaufbau roof. Now these two pieces were not really a big deal to me as I wanted the hood/fenders and all the 4WD crap fine quality parts and with a bonus of the late style wheels….

Just before the auction ran out, this puppy was still at the same price. I threw a bid of €26,79 down at the last few seconds and............BAM. I won the thing for €10,50 + €5 postage, a total of €15,50. I needed a beer immediately!!!!!!!!!!! I got the kit today and when I got home from work, I started cleaning some of the parts up. It's an old kit and it is in really good shape, well detailed and nicely molded,

It has white metal springs, drive shafts and the steering mechanism. I also got a sheet of white plastic and one of clear plastic for the Kofferaufbau windows. Next, I opened up the Kofferaufbau parts to check them out,

The iPad color focus was flipping out, but all the parts look good although there is a few that are warped a bit. Don't need these anyway for the T-Stoff Tankwagen. I then took a gander at the destructions and low and behold, worse than a Dragon kit!!!! Exploded drawings and then something struck me kinda funny,

You have to hack up the cab from the Italeri kit as well as the frame to build this. Huh!!!!!!!!!!!

If you look closer, the cab is made up of the Pieces Italeri as denoted with the *…….DOH!!! The cab isn't missing at all. Moving along, we now look at the assembly of the Kofferaufbau,

Now you know that the white plastic card is for the roof!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is no mention of the clear plastic sheet anywhere, but who cares. Kiss my Grits, I have a 100% compete kit in the box and for a heck of a savings too. Sometimes Murphy's Law happens and we get lucky. Yea, I tore up some Blitz parts to make my conversion, but now I can move forward with a big oop: eating grin on my face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With some luck, I will take and post a few side by side photos of my conversion and the Azimut kit conversion tomorrow. I do have a long drive and I hope to get home at a reasonable hour. Sorry for the boring update, but I think this only happens every once in a while and this time I got lucky.................

Thanks for staying awake and looking in. Have a great week too!!!

Prost
Allen

[JR]

Dude 1 , Dude 2 here:smiling:

Look fine now you've worked out why it had bits " missing "
:nerd:

[scottie3158]

Allen,
That is a great result, you have stuck gold there. I was going to PM you to see how things are going it's been a while.

[Gary MacKenzie]

Allen , are you going to add one of these to the build ??

https://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/product/1-35-16t-strabokran-1944-45-w-hanomag-ss100-takom-02124

[JR]

Allen , are you going to add one of these to the build ??
https:tongue-out3:/www.scalemodelsho...00-takom-02124

Wow that's some model Gary, but don't encourage Allen to buy anymore, :smiling2::smiling2::smiling2: ,, I'll be long gone by the time it gets finished at this rate ! :tongue-out3:

[Allen Dewire]

Afternoon Folks,

I have been kinda slow as of late due to work and the rising temperatures of over 30° C. I live under the roof and it gets too hot. I can wear the optivisor for about 5 minutes and then the sweat in running down my face.

John, Don't worry as I won't be buying much anymore for this project. I did win another Azimut 4WD kit that is exactly the same as the one above. It was from the same seller too and once again missing the roof and the cab. Should be here next week. Oh and you'll be around when I finish this for sure...

Paul, The price was great and the second one was €14 higher, but still, 2 kits for €34,87 is a steal. It has been so hot except yesterday, but when I got home after a 700 km trip, I was beat to death. I will drive on my friend….

Gary, My whole plan is/was for 3 dios in the V2 story. The one I am doing now is the prep and fueling end and there is no Strabo in use here. Number 2 is the loading of the V2 onto the Vidalwagen from the railroad cars using the Strabokran. Number 3 is the transfer of the V2 from the Vidalwagen onto the Meillerwagen again using the Strabokran. Here is most of the line up,

I also have a bunch of kits and resin conversions to be used for support vehicles as a V2 battery had over 100 vehicles of all types in it. I did eye this kit up, but I have 2 Strabos and 3 Hanomag SS100s already and 4 rockets too. What I really need is time to build it all......….

It is a holiday here in the Fatherland on Monday, so maybe, just maybe, I can get something done in 3 days. I just hope the temps stay reasonable and under 30° C.

Prost
Allen

[Allen Dewire]

Evening Again Rocketeers Around The World or Around The Block,

No, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth like you might think. I have been working the 4WD F 405 T-Stoff Tankwagen and am making some headway. The tank portion is 2 pieces of solid poured resin. They are not light and come in at about a pound when CA'd together. They also had big resin pour blocks that had to be removed. Out with the saw but it wasn't as easy as you would think,

I mostly had to saw them off by holding the saw blade in my fingers and going slowly back and forth. Then followed some further cleanup before I could glue them together. Out with the Deluxe Roket Max (thick) and,

and we have a tank!!! As you can see, it is a solid chunk of resin when glued together other than the open rear compartment for the plumbing and pumps. Next up was the tank frame underneath. This piece was warped and off-cast a bit,

Sawing into the end piece and removing about 5mm of resin, the upper two frame pieces reached the other end of the tank. The two cross beam supports were then CA'd to this frame. This got rid of most of the warping. The frame was then CA'd to the tank bottom and it all came out rather well and you won't see most of it anyway. You can't do anything with the drawers on each side so I just glued them shut with the doors,

So far, so good and now it was time to fill the back end with the cool Junk stuff. The resin conversion kit parts do leave a bit to be desired in the details. I could only attempt to make it look a little better,

Here is the motor and the pump. there was no driveshaft between them. punched out a few discs and a couple of sprue pieces to make one. The motor sat lower than the pump, so I shimmed the feet to raise it. The shaft is now level between them. I also scratched up a drip pan against oil or petrol spills,

Finished building up the rest of the motor, the manual pump and added the shaft to the pump. I also modded the fire extinguisher and made the exhaust pipe for the motor. Unfortunately, The Azimut motor is quite wrong in the whole. More on this later,

The motor and pump glued in place on the drip pan and the main pipe works that needed to be hacked up to correct too,

On the right is the manual pump I scratched up about 6 months ago. In the middle is the reworked main pipe assembly and on the left is the modded pump/motor works. You can see I had to shorten the petrol tank pipe so it would sit on the big oval wrong tank piece underneath. It will all make more sense in a few minutes folks with two pictures. Stay awake now!!!!!!,

Now if you look at this picture carefully, you will see that my manual pump was 5mm too tall. I had to gouge out the 5mm of resin so it would fit. Also note that the pump motor big oval piece should be the housing for the air inlet fan to cool the motor when it is in use. The shield and the starting handle (brass wire) and the exhaust pipe are in place. The whole nonsense should look like this,

Without attempting to hollow out the whole back compartment, this is as good as it will get. You can see here the cooling inlet housing is really much smaller than the given piece. I didn't find anything to correct this major malfunction in the parts bin. Now I could go crazy and super scratch the complete details, but that would put me another 2 months behind schedule. I will correct the starter handle as it is too high over the cylinder head. This is the 4th one I have made and they were all too short, DOH!!!

Oh, there is still lots to do on this one. I am still playing with the rest of the Opel and getting the 4WD crap in place. With all the resin involved, this vehicle will probably tip the scales at around 3 lbs when it's done. Tomorrow is another holiday here in the Fatherland, so temps willing, I can get some table time. It was 33° C today, but they are calling for thunderstorms in the morn…..

Thanks for looking in and have a fine day tomorrow. Stay dry and moggell on!!!!!!!!!!!

Prost
Allen

[BigGreg]

and more to come...and more fantastic work... love it.. :-)

[JR]

Great photos of the work Dude 1, think you are doing well on this. Keep it going
No slacking tomorrow now, we the V2 Appreciation Society need more photos.
Dude 2

[Allen Dewire]

Evening Once Again Rocketeers,

I know, I know, two days in a row. You are all thinking the world has gone to hell in a hand basket, but...…….

Thanks Greg, I am trying to get much done before the Sahara Summer hits us and wearing the optivisor is impossible. Hope you are well my friend.

Come on Dude 2, a V2 Appreciation Society??? I thought I warned you about those Doobies Buddy. I am like the sign in the Loo at the Pub, "We aim to please and your aim helps!!!"

Seeing as it was a holiday here and the temps played pretty much with, I did manage to get some stuff done. I didn't really have a choice with that slave driver JR telling me there will be no slacking today. As some of you might know, I won two of these from evilbay,

The second one must have sat in the window as the cover is a bit bleached out and fly crap on it too. Anyway, I made a comparison and found that there is a big difference in the casting of the front grill,

The casting of the second kit was way better than the one on the left even after I attempted some cleanup on it. You can see the different resin color too. I will use the piece on the right for this puppy. Pretty much the whole time at the table today, that damn incorrect motor piece bugged the hell out me. I finally decided to drink a beer fix it as best I could. I pried off the offending pieces and with some dicing and slicing and a beer, we came up with this,

I still needed to add the fuel tank to the top left. It's not perfect, but it did look better and more like the pic. The beer wasn't too shabby either!!! Now it was time to play 4WD games on the chassis. After fiddling here and fiddling there, I mounted the diffs with the wheel hubs in their proper (I hoped) places. After the CA dried, I moved on to the transfer case for the drive shafts. Scratched up the second support for it, placed it and let it all dry. Lastly, I trimmed up the white metal drive shafts until they fit the axles and the transfer case. And,

With the shafts CA'd in place, I wanted to see how the shaft to the tranny would line up. The motor/tranny is moulded with the cab as one solid resin unit. Sort of a dry fit type of thing,
It is just a tick off center in alignment, but you won't see it after the cab and tank are on the chassis. So far everything is going good or at least I thought. Hard to believe, but the front right hub hangs about 3mm in the air while the other 3 hubs all touch the ground. It's not really a big deal as the groundwork for the dio would come into play and fix it. I wanted to see how the tank would sit on the frame along with the cab,

Lo and behold, all 4 hubs sat on the table now and I had to have another beer to celebrate. Ya gotta love heavy resin parts!!! Now it was time to work on the cab. I really wasn't ready to bust up a brand new Blitz kit, so I decided to destroy utilize my scratchy 4WD cab instead. It was out with the saw and scribe to do the nasty,

iPad has gone crazy again with the colors!!! This took a while as I had to be careful cutting up the old cab. It turned out ok with no mishaps, but the Italeri cab is about 1 - 2 mm wider (at the hood join) than the resin part. Doors are cool and fit perfect. I will have to play around with this a little, but no biggie. Another test fit was in order,

Slapped the tires on to see how they would look. They will be painted before being permanently glued to the hubs. Also in the pic is what's left of my 4WD hood conversion and the fuel tank I added to the pump motor on the left. So how will it look when it has the major components thrown on it??? Hmmm, Uhhh,

Damn, it looks like a 4WD F 405 T-Stoff Tankwagen that still has to be finished!!! And when it is finished, I do hope it will look like this,

A 4WD Opel Blitz (this one has normal street tires on it). I might even throw the horse shoe on the grill for good luck.

That's all for today folks. Thank you everyone for looking and all comments, critique, suggestions, questions and envelopes filled with cash are cheerfully accepted. See ya on the weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prost
Allen