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  1. Thanks for all the great comments everyone. I have been irrestably drawn to a Trumpeter Faun Tank Transporter today - watch this space! Nick
  2. Well it's finished. I've kept it new and shiny looking, well because they are mostly I think? I'd almost forgotten all this was in here - seems a long time ago! Thanks for looking! Nick
  3. Yes I’m a plane guy at heart, but these RFM kits are just fascinating, you get a real good idea of how tanks are screwed together even if you know little about them- like me.
  4. Not completely finished, and noticed a few repairs required under the glare of my unforgiving L-series 100mm Macro, but nearly done... Now I don't know much about tanks, but I know a little about kits, and this is just exceptional. As well as the PE, vinyl mud flaps and decals, the moulding is just amazing - the welds, casting data and friction surfaces especailly are absolutely exceptional.
  5. I hadn’t really appreciated how much of this thing is turret - it’s damn near as big as the hull when it’s got all its bins and other paraphernalia fitted!
  6. Thanks for all the kind words everyone. I’ve been thinking about this and actually kits like this aren’t that crazy after all. ‘why’ I hear you say (one of many voices in my head) well who looks at your models? I mean in the flesh? OK you may enter the odd comp, most people don’t, so apart from that one or two like minded friends maybe? But mostly nobody, but who looks at PHOTOS of your models? Lots of people, us lot for a start, so actually the main ‘consumer’ of our models is the camera and the internet, so in that case all the ‘lost’ detail that gets locked inside, isn’t lost at all, its just as valid as the work thats still visible externally on the finished model. and for my next trick I will be proving black is white (and trying not to get run over on the next zebra crossing for any other Douglas Adams fans out there) I’m off for a lie down now anyway. Nick
  7. So here's the next batch of fotos as promised. I love this kit - Completely pointless, but glorious. Thanks for looking Nick
  8. Exciting news, I've finally put version1 of the Bentley wire wheels into production. The full car as a kit (rather than a one-off) is a mamoth undertaking I have come to realise, so I have taken the decision to release the wheels as a direct replacement for the Airfix items. This means that they have the four studs on the back that fit the airfix brake drums so the wheels can both be used in new builds and retro-fitted to completed kits to give them a major boost. They make use of the kit tyres too, so are a direct replacementbwith no modification to the kit at all. In true Blue Peter fashion, heres one I prepared earlier mated to the airfix drum. I plan a version 2 that will ship with a brake set that will correct the airfix drums and mount the wheels in a more scale-like manner. Production is ramping up as we speak and they are available for sale on the unobtainium web shop today. Thanks for your patience and continued interest! PS I've also re-commenced work on the hybrid printed/CNC chassis, stand by for updates and photos. Regards Nick
  9. I'm a huge fan of excessive, never-to-be-seen-detail so these RFM kits are right up my street. There's no real way of ever displaying all the work inside these things as transparent stuff always look a bit naff to me, exploded stuff can be made to work, but I'll settle for some photos along the way. so having said that, here's some of the really nice detail the chaps at RFM provide that will never see the light of day. I like it anyway. The 'Powerpack' I know little of tanks, but as far as I can see, the transmission has a pair of friction plates that engage with a similar set in the hull, so the whole shooting match looks like it lifts out pretty easily without messing about disconnecting any driveshafts etc. You can see them in this shot, very clever if that is indeed how it works? 'So we want you to drive this big tin box full of very large explody bullets, right next to your left ear while people shoot at you' That big old motor/transmission does fit in the hole it turns out You can still see some stuff with the lid on Lots still to do, but really enjoying this I must admit. Thanks for looking Nick
  10. Let me know if you need any more panels easy enough now I’ve figured out how to make them. Nick
  11. It just so happens I’ve started looking at the beast again this week. Stand by!
  12. Up to your usual standard. Amazing work.
  13. Just found this thread and admiring your 3D printing exploits. Just wondering can you do that? Suspension takes a real hammering on these things, I use a lot of ABS-like Resin and whilst it looks great, it’s pretty brittle, the stuff the original parts are made from is tough as hell and flexible in comparison. If this is a thing fair enough, excuse my ignorance!
  14. Wow you made that hard for yourself! I get why you drew it in fusion (if you dont have illustrator) so you did the hard bit. Add the colour in fusion - just extrude the lettering in white, then the background in black add a scale, say a line 5cm long or something known next to the gauge face, then go to file, capture image set a custom resolution in Inches rather than pixels and print the thing with windows photos using the resize option if required, measure your 5cm bar on the physical print and scale accordingly using resize. You've gone from a nice fully scalable vector in fusion via ms Paint, to MS word which is really bad at handling images faithfully. I suspect you might need to make the white lettering/markings wider than they actually are - at this scale the bleed from black to white is enough to lose it, so I end up making everything fat and it looks right when printed. I just work in illustrator in the first place which I know isn't for everyone, and certainly isn't quick and easy to learn, but it's very good at stuff like this, especially if you're doing a lot of it. Have fun! Nick
  15. OK they’re in the post! Let me know how you get on OK they’re in the post, let me know how you get on. Nick
  16. OK that's it now, I've engraved this at 0.06mm depth and I'm pretty confident that the font stroke width is just the width of the tool tip, 0.1mm so that's as fine as it will go, you can see it's slightly better than the earlier version at the bottom of the shot. Hope that will be good enough? I don't think you're going to get down to the this size and stroke width with punches to be honest. Nick
  17. I think I've finally cracked it now:- I got hold of some EXTREMELY pointy V bits, but it took me a while to figure out the feed and plunge rates to stop them immediately snapping as they didn't have any data sheets Once I figured that out, they last quite well and cut nice thin lines. All this stuff is quite small for our readers! Looking at the photos, rather than real life, I think I can maybe be get the lettering thiner at the expense of depth, so I may have one last go with a more shallow cut. Nick
  18. OK learnt a lot! I’ve got some engraver bits arriving tomorrow, I think I can get a finer line with these over the v bits I’ve been using so far.
  19. Here's the first attempts:- This is pretty near to the limits of what I can do with this machine I think, I've had to use single line fonts (don't ask) but hopefully they are close enough to what you want? I'm going to have one last go with 0.1mm V bit and two passes ay 0.06mm to get 0.12mm depth, the issue is, the deeper the engraver the wider the stroke becomes and you end up displacing a lot of material that doesn't clear neatly. Stay tuned, it's useful for me as I'm learning a lot about engraving I didn't know before Nick
  20. This is looking great. I’ve had some success CNC machining my Bentley Dashboard and my machine is also capable of engraving pretty well to, so if you want to knock up a fusion drawing of the panel I’ll have a go at cutting one out of ali and engraving it for you if you like (don’t forget my friend what-the-font? For matching the lettering!) I’m not sure I can engrave small enough, but happy to try. Also how thick is the ali - I’ve got most small sizes. i got pretty handy at drawing the faces in illustrator too for making decals, so if you have a square on shot of the dials I don’t mind knocking some decals up too,it’s quite time consuming learning how to do it I found! the good news is that all weights next to nothing and will fit in an envelope. Nick
  21. Thanks for the encouragement, I have got form with MFH kits when I did battle with their Brough Superior https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235073317-mfh-19th-brough-superior/ Ive bought a magnetic tumbler now so I’m running out of excuses not to start it. In my head, I’m thinking of basing a scratch built 1/12th (maybe 1/8th?) version on it as the Tamiya one is so flawed. MFH really do their homework so it’s almost like having access to a dismantled real car! I,ve got the CAD done for the engine, and I’m toying with a CNC cut sheet Ali monocoque, except fusion 360 sheet metal mode is no use for this I now know. easy enough to do an old-school paper template from the MFH body and rescale. Watch this space. still love yours though.
  22. Magnificent. I’m even less likely to start mine now after seeing what a beautiful job you've made of yours.
  23. Looks good, did you draw the base plate as part of the design and are the components completely/solidly attached to it? They look they might be? Im all for drawing my own supports, (rather than relying on slicer generated) but you might want to think about standing the parts off the base with pillars or slotted blades (my favourite method!) as seen under the cylinder banks here at the least I would I set a saw blades width between the part and baseplate. Completely attaching is making life difficult for yourself. Ignore all that if that isnt what you did of course! 😎👍 looking great though, excellent work. Nick
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