And another slow build - Antar Mk.3 + Trailer....

[Jim R]

Sorry to hear about Mavis. Such a young age too. I know how you must feel from my own experience of losing furry friends.

[Guest]

I have come again up against the shifted mould....

I’ve not built many Accurate Armour kits, but in the ones I have, all have had parts whose moulds had shifted. Especially round ones like an Strv 103 gun barrel and the equilibrators on their T26E4 conversion kit.

[scottie3158]

Michael,
Sorry to hear about Mavis. Accurate Armour as I said previously do put out some interesting kits, but it also appears from this build and others that I have seen that the moulds are well past their useful life given the finish on the parts. Luckily you have the skills and patience to put them right.

[Scratchbuilder]

So sorry to hear about Mavis. :disappointed2:

More great work on the Antar. My favourite Dinky when I was a nipper was the Mighty Antar, with, of course, a Centuion on the back.
Pete

Remember it well Pete, now worth a fortune at the auction houses - anybody got a time machine I can borrow.....

[Scratchbuilder]

Looks like a challenge. What's the trailer look like?

Paul, sorry I totally forgot about the trailer....


On first inspection carried out when I first got the kit, I think it was favouable. What you see here is all the parts have been seperated by me into bags for easy finding of parts. I had a quick scan through the instructions and they look like an improvement has been made as far as clarity of where parts actually go instead of getting the prayer mat out and hoping for the best.
Mike.

[Scratchbuilder]

Sorry to hear about Mavis. Such a young age too. I know how you must feel from my own experience of losing furry friends.

Thankyou Jim, Lost a good friend and still look for her.

[Scratchbuilder]

I’ve not built many Accurate Armour kits, but in the ones I have, all have had parts whose moulds had shifted. Especially round ones like an Strv 103 gun barrel and the equilibrators on their T26E4 conversion kit.

Jakko, tell me about it. I am a novice caster regarding casting my own resin items, but for crying out loud how easy is it to check you have the mould set up correctly....

[Scratchbuilder]

Michael,
Sorry to hear about Mavis. Accurate Armour as I said previously do put out some interesting kits, but it also appears from this build and others that I have seen that the moulds are well past their useful life given the finish on the parts. Luckily you have the skills and patience to put them right.

scottie, I do not think it is the age of the moulds, I put it down to a lack of proper quality control coupled with the excuse that you are an experienced modeller - sort it....
Mike

[Scratchbuilder]

Update,
Many thanks to you all for your condolences, SWMBO had also added her thanks to you all.
Can I draw a line under the standard of the kit and production failures - we have actually been here before with my Chieftain Bridgelayer build/marathon. But thanks for all your input. Just off now to spend a week on the centurion and then back to this build.
Cheers,
Mike.

[minitnkr]

Whoooooooah, now that's a trailer. These two look like a "boatman" build.

[Scratchbuilder]

Update,
A bit more work on the Antar today, still adding parts to the chassis...

Still plenty of filler to fill in the seams and air bubbles.....
Started work on the cab by first joining the back to the floor and then adding the dash board, gear levers/gates and the floor pedals along with the handbrake and foot pedals....

I will spread a bit of filler over the foot pedals to smooth them out and get rid of the seams. What looks like a fork handle is actually the hand throttle....

The seats during clean up and will be added once the cab is ready for the roof and top to be added.

Here is the roof part and in front is part one of the glazing you have to add and cut to size yourself, such fun....
And that is where I am today. Next it will be finishing off the glazing and then spray the inside with primer and top coat - wondering if aluminium was used, I know the inside of the 432's we had was painted in 'silver'..... Suggestions.
Cheers
Mike.

[Guest]

wondering if aluminium was used, I know the inside of the 432's we had was painted in 'silver'..... Suggestions.

British AFVs were painted with that silvery paint that apparently never really dried because it was supposed to help reflect the light and so make the interior a bit less dark — which would probably not be needed in the cab of a lorry. But I don’t know for sure — could well be there were painted like that too?

[Tim Marlow]

British AFVs were painted with that silvery paint that apparently never really dried because it was supposed to help reflect the light and so make the interior a bit less dark — which would probably not be needed in the cab of a lorry. But I don’t know for sure — could well be there were painted like that too?

That stuff was aluminium based and very soft when dry…..…we used it to paint handrails and such when I first worked at Porton. Awful stuff, like painting with water…….I think the tins we got had been in store since WW2 :tongue-out3: . The pigment had settled so hard to the bottom of the tin we had to literally chisel it up with a screwdriver before it could be mixed.
If you went down the stairs too fast it would burn pigment into your palms……and it always felt wet…..

[Guest]

The pigment had settled so hard to the bottom of the tin we had to literally chisel it up with a screwdriver before it could be mixed.

Oh, it was made by Humbrol, was it?

I’ve seen interior photos of Dutch Centurion MBTs that had been repainted inside with the pale green used in M113s, presumably because the Army had had enough of that silvery stuff that the tanks had been delivered in. Since the green was put over the silver paint (you can tell from how it went over many of the labels by careless brushwork), I wonder how securely it actually stuck to the vehicle.

[JR]

Wibble nice to see this and sorry I'm late .
I have the Dinky model of this complete with the Cent , unfortunately the later has a broken barrel :crying:

Wobble . Look out for men with pointed shoes, they are about !