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Didn't realize it's been about two months, hope you got your popcorn. I had one set of tires from Moluminum but he isn't around really much unfortunately. I made my own copies. I used a Smooth-On rubber resin that I forgot the name of but can find out, I added a black dye to it make the colour. Turns out it's the exact same material as the tires I used for a pattern. I used up all the material I had since the stuff has a short shelf life once opened. I also didn't pressurize it, I should have but they still look ok. Trying to line up all three axle was a bit of work. Also the suspension wants a wider frame and the trailing arm parts were coming inwards a bit. You can see how nose heavy the truck is to at this point. What made this a bit hard was lining up the center of the axles to the wrecker bodies wheel opening. They seem a touch out. It's crucial that the wheels are centered. If there was no body on top it would be a lot easier but this is a wrecker not a flatbed. The Neway suspension parts and wheels(all blue parts) are from Czech Truck Model https://www.czechtruckmodel.com/ excellent parts. I made up a series of aligning pins between the center and outside body sections to make them a more solid unit when glued together. I don't trust super glue alone to hold everything. I also had to grind the bottom of the center section smooth and level, well by eyeball anyway. The tires opening is a touch larger than the wheel diameter so I had to made a spacer around the rims. I used two layers of .010 sheet. I tried .020 but it was harder to lay on smooth. Finished it to the edge of the rims and it looks good. Also mad a support to hold the frame up which helped a lot. Test fitting the body, lots of small adjustments needed. I ended up adding shims to below the airbags to get all six wheels to sit properly. If you noticed, I also am using a straight board and a lazy susan to work on so I don't have to lift up the truck continuously, just make sure to counter weight the board. I made the side mounting plates much like the actual ones. I had to raise the front of the body with a .020 spacer to make it sit more level with the tires. Also made airtanks and driveshafts. I found the resin driveshafts after these were made. Most of this will never be seen or just barely. Wheels painted and tires weathered a bit an all installed. I painted the wheels with alclad airframe aluminum over satin black acrylic with gloss overcoat. Usually works good but went a bit duller this time. So I painted alclad chrome over it and it then looked to toy like. I painter a coat of alclad satin sheen clear over the chrome and it toned it down a bit. The center axle covers I painted with molotow chrome after an alclad treatment. I wanted the two hues to be noticeable. The body is now glued on with mudflaps and tie down wires added. Spades are attached underneath and is the front stabilizer. Also made the fuel tank cover panels.

That's a neat kit with the two options. I was getting into gassers a few years ago but had to sideline them. This would be a nice addition. Anyway this will be quite something. The stance looks good.

I don't think Roden made a connie.

Nicely done. Looks like a fun car to steer the rear with.

Love it. I always thought these were green not blue, must be the photos I saw, good thing I didn't make one green.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnFzT6aUehg Juan does some good analysis of this door, he has a couple earlier videos on it also. This came out today.

Yep, most excellent.

That would be a neat book, I'd buy one. I know some bases keep the planes out of public spaces. 402 sqdn here does that, they have a Beech 18, B-25 and C-47 which they used to let people go on base and see but not anymore. Luckily I got pictures years ago.

I saw on their FB that they are open sometimes, the FB had a post on today.

It's closed? that sucks. I can't get over there but would love to see one.

I have this one also. I was going to get the aftermarket parts for it but they aren't cheap, I know they are worth getting. These are a beautiful plane. To bad that photo has the front of the truck cut off, I'd be curious to see more of it since backround stuff interests me. Just found out that 663 was converted into a TB-58 in '63 and is on outside display at Grissom AFB Indiana.

Hi Craig from over next door. I haven't any real navy stuff but do want to learn maritime modelling.

cool thing to put on your shelf. I was going to find some Daleks but they are stupid expensive.

It looks like a suitcase so it isn't to bad, wouldn't try getting it airworthy.

To bad none were saved. I just know they found a hemi engine in a junkyard that's now on display.

You made a silk purse from a sows ear. I had the chance to have one of these airfixs but passed on it, didn't think much could be done with it.

Looks a bit crude in places but it appears to be mostly an actual plane. I've known a tin basher who could make those cowlings correct from scratch. Unfortunately he's been gone some 25-30 years ago.

Nice bare metal work, well aluminum, These test planes were taken from the production line I think so they were new.

All great, classy collection of semis, or lorrys. I keep forgetting two door hatchback cars are called three doors. I just call the them a two door hatch or four door hatch.

Hope they don't ban styrene there. The others don't matter.

I thought only four Leopards came from Canada. I could be wrong, although I'm here I have no way to really know and I'm not in the army circle. Hopefully it is more, we have a bunch. I have an unbuilt Tamiya1A4 but I doubt those would be used, unless it could be converted easily into a 1A5. I was going to use it to practice armour weathering and building with. How would you model that cam netting in the photos? Armour isn't my thing but would like to give it a go.

Glad you had success with that piano hinge. I tried one before but went with glue and it didn't quite work. I see you replaced the supplied wire with rod which is good. I couldn't see how any glue would adhere to stainless. If the flange was wider it might work better for filling. One thing I do with thick sheet is bevel the edges to look thin. This amount of work would have taken me at least a steady year to do.

My suspensions always end up a touch off somehow no matter how much I measure. My calibrated eyeball sometime needs calibration.

It'll still be fine tucked up on a shelf on display, don't have to always be a gold medal model. I know we all try for that. It's not the only 7sea model left in the world.

That's a complex steering setup.