Shenanigans 2: T-34 Bail Out

[spanner570]

Good Grief, poor Peter!

Why have a damaged tank in the first place?

All well meaning I'm sure, but mind boggling advice and technical suggestions. Particularly as it's not really your field of model making.

Why start to worry about attempting something that you are not, for whatever reason, totally happy in having a go at?

This lark is supposed to be relaxing fun.

To avoid any more troubled thoughts about how you are going to tackle the build, and keeping in mind the figures are going to be 'Centre Stage' just show the tank as a simple back drop, undamaged and having simply run out of fuel and one crew member has simply twisted his ankle whilst abandoning the tank.

Job done and no need to get a sweat on worrying about it any more. Keep it simple......:thumb2:

Trust me, I'm a Doctor.

Your Servant.
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippin

[minitnkr]

You're on the attack & the engine craps out & won't restart. What do you do? Bail out of this ripe target & become infantry! PaulE

[spanner570]

You're on the attack & the engine craps out & won't restart. What do you do? Bail out of this ripe target & become infantry! PaulE

Great minds........and all that!

Nice and easy does it every time.....I can feel a song coming on.

[Guest]

Hold your horses people - this one is ABANDONED!!!!!!!!

My fault for buying a cheap and early kit - it turned out to be a complete pile of rubbish.

These are the sprue shots:



As you can see, really horrible vinyl tracks and the kit configured for the fitting of a motor. There were huge open spaces under the fender and around the drive sprockets and the whole thing had a lot of flash.

I started it none-the-less. The hubs for the wheels were polythene and designed to allow the wheels to turn, but the wheels themselves fitted quite badly. The problem came when fitting the tracks. A metal axle was provided for the idlers, but the holes left for fitting an RC engine around the drive sprockets left the whole thing very weak and depending on the back plate for taking the strain. Needless to say, it just would not hold - the tracks were very tight and pulled the drive wheels forward and pulled the hull sides from the back plate.

I resorted to some bracing:


I also needed to add extra metal rods to the axle holes as that also pulled out of place. It all worked more or less, but when I fitted the deck there were huge gaps around the rear hull top where it met the back plate due to the tight track distorting the side plates. I tried to do something about these, but really the whole business was getting ridiculous and I decided to call it a day.

A better modeller than I may have relished the challenges this one posed and it probably would have responded to some tough love (and new tracks), but such things are way out of my comfort zone and the fun had ceased long ago.

I was also a little disappointed in the figures, so I will drop those also.

Sorry people!

[scottie3158]

That's a pity Peter but its your call, so what's next on the agenda you have to do something you got us salivating lol.

[Steve Jones]

Bummer!! Never mind Peter. Back to the figure work:thumb2::thumb2:

[Jim R]

Win some, loose some. As Steve says "Back to the figure work"
Jim

[Guest]

All well meaning I'm sure, but mind boggling advice and technical suggestions.

I’m sometimes amazed at the way modellers wave away basic, easy to achieve realism on the basis that it’s “too complicated.”

Particularly as it's not really your field of model making.

In which case, technical advice is all the more useful in order to get it right.

You're on the attack & the engine craps out & won't restart. What do you do?

Become a pillbox, because the nice, friendly, neighbourhood NKVD officer has reminded you that Comrade Stalin isn’t entirely comfortable with the idea of soldiers retreating in the face of the enemy?

[Guest]

Thread closed!!!!!!