IDF M109 'Doher'

[Scratchbuilder]

Update,
Started the day by filling in the gap in the drivers compartment where it touches the inside wall and hull side...

As you can see quite a gap...

After some scrap plastic strip and Tamiya putty...
I then added the suspension covers and the rear ammo standing racks...

I am adding some parts because the interior colour is mainly White, and a lot of the parts will be pre assembled and then added as required.
One point is that the drivers instrument panel in the Doher is different to that in the interior kit which is for the Rochev M109 - confused - wait until you start trying to sort out the parts to the badly printed list of parts that do not have part numbers on them :confounded:, that is why my bench looks like a scrap yard...
More later
Mike.

[Andy the Sheep]

I'm joining this friendly audience and I'll follow your progress with interest.

[Scratchbuilder]

I'm joining this friendly audience and I'll follow your progress with interest.

Well sit at the back, after a week they get a bit restless and start throwing things - wish ot was their credit cards....

[Scratchbuilder]

Update,
Been plodding along between this and the Warrior. I now have all of the hull interior sorted, sanded, and straightened as far as I want it to go before painting. The engine and drivers bulkheads are also complete and the whole lot has been primed...


The tri-angled items are there to support the bulkheads and keep them verticle....

And the bulkheads which will be added in place once painting has been completed.
More later
Mike.

[Jim R]

Great work Mike. Lots of corrections needed. Coat of primer makes all the difference. Covers all the filler and bits of styrene etc. which makes it difficult to appreciate the work done.

[scottie3158]

Mike,
Up to your normal high standards.

[Scratchbuilder]

Jim R & scottie,
Many thanks for the comments. More pics coming later today - been building but forgetting the updates.

[Scratchbuilder]

No update, have decided to have a bit of a break, going to go through the stash of 'started but never going to finish' and what is the modern terminology 'downsize'.... Or in my parlance bin them!!! Have not lost the mojo, plus SWMBO has come up with a list of heavy lifting outside work in the garden to do - oh how I hate gardening....



Back soon
Mike

[Waspie]

No update, have decided to have a bit of a break, going to go through the stash of 'started but never going to finish' and what is the modern terminology 'downsize'.... Or in my parlance bin them!!! Have not lost the mojo, plus SWMBO has come up with a list of heavy lifting outside work in the garden to do - oh how I hate gardening....

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Back soon
Mike

Oh whoa is you!!
I'm not in the slightest envious. I finished SWMBO's list a wee while ago and my back is still suffering.

[rtfoe]

Update,
Been plodding along between this and the Warrior. I now have all of the hull interior sorted, sanded, and straightened as far as I want it to go before painting. The engine and drivers bulkheads are also complete and the whole lot has been primed...
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The tri-angled items are there to support the bulkheads and keep them verticle....
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And the bulkheads which will be added in place once painting has been completed.
More later
Mike.

This looks like a set of CAD drawings once you've primed it Mike. Looks good.

My SWMBO's list doesn't seem to end. Trying to get bench time only ends up with me staring and dosing off. I often wonder what made us get hitched in the first place...seems one sided. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Wabble

[JR]

Greetings Wobble.
I was lucky to work on the original 109's when they were delivered to the 22 med Reg way back in time.
Will of course follow .
Wibble.

Get on with it man, tell Swimbo remember you have a bad back. Thank will excuse you from all 1/1 duties.

[Scratchbuilder]

Oh whoa is you!!
I'm not in the slightest envious. I finished SWMBO's list a wee while ago and my back is still suffering.

I know but they keep adding to it.....

[Scratchbuilder]

This looks like a set of CAD drawings once you've primed it Mike. Looks good.

My SWMBO's list doesn't seem to end. Trying to get bench time only ends up with me staring and dosing off. I often wonder what made us get hitched in the first place...seems one sided. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Wabble

Wabble,
We were lured into it by their womanly ways, fluttering their eyes, pouting their lips and other things.... I tried that in Sainsburys and got arrested for shop lifting - the two melons I had stuffed down my front... Copper wanted to know when the pups were due....
Wibble.

[Scratchbuilder]

Greetings Wobble.
I was lucky to work on the original 109's when they were delivered to the 22 med Reg way back in time.
Will of course follow .
Wibble.

Get on with it man, tell Swimbo remember you have a bad back. Thank will excuse you from all 1/1 duties.

Does not work JR, She always has a comeback like you do want to be fed today....

[Jim R]

plus SWMBO has come up with a list of .........

..... please add your own ending. These are common orders requests - DIY projects, shopping, entertaining relatives, getting the Christmas stuff from the attic, garden jobs, cleaning hercar, cleaning the windows, mending that something that has been needing work for a year or two, stopping the kitchen tap dripping etc. etc - the list goes on and on. Us blokes do suffer!