Hummel

Update on the smoker , Bit happier with it now that it Put putputs!!!!

I gave Britmodeller a tag in the description After i made this one i think ive found a way to make the smoke "putter" like a real exhaust. I will have a go at that next weekend. Anyway enjoy!

WOW! just wow! Epic build and great attention to detail, So many reference photos too for when i get round to detailing my S100. One thing i have left to find out though, how did the deck skirts attach to the railings/stanchions on the real boat?, I cannot find any close up photos anywhere. Thankyou for an awesome build thread!

All fixed now i hope

Maybe due to using my Onedrive for hosting. i will fix it when i get back from work, Apols.

Got the same thing last night. Made me double post a thread in Armoured vehicles.

As I mentioned in my introduction post. Left the hobby more than a decade ago with lots of unfinished projects on the table Built a Hobby Hut during last years lockdown to move allmy gear into and start up the hobby again. Thought i would post a few photos of the scratch builds and mods i installed on my King Tigers. There might be some tips that people can make use of. 1. Once you put Metal cast tracks on a Tamiya it puts way too much stress on the stock gearboxes and chassis.. To help with this i made metal plates for the rear and top of the hull and added a scratch built gear down sleave to the gear boxes. Also with metal tracks, pivot will not work unless you gear it down. To take stress off the drive shafts in the gear box i also added a proper sleeved ball bearing to the final drive shaft plate which takes 90% of the strain off. There are no bearings on the stock Tamiya gearboxes, just bushes. You can also see the copper tubing exhausts for the Heng Long smoke machine that i trial fitted. (Since has been binned due to crapness) I will be building my own at some point which will produce lots more smoke) Smoke from the Heng Long unit barely visible Drive plate without bearing Bearing in place (Friction fit) Gear down mechanism in place ( I later added a spacer to get the motor cog in line with the gear cog) People have spent hundreds of £'s buying full gear down boxes when theres just no need with this simple mod you get a much better scale speed and way more torque. These are just aircraft motor gear downs and very cheap. Hull mods including removable skirts (1mm screws), Scratch built tow cables, Scratch built track hangers The power required for the smoke unit meant rearranging the internal layout to fit more batteries. Removed the speaker from its resonance box (took up almost the entire rear end of the hull) and fitted it to the interior of the turret (turret acts like an even bigger resonance box) And a new electronics tray made. Other mods worth fitting are the Schumo coil sprung torsion bars for the road wheel suspension and Idler wheel tensioner (The ones pictured are from Kenny Kong, i dont think he trades anymore though) Once happy with a particular mod, i would transfer it to the final King Tiger Party time! First attempts at weathering, Tamiya acrylics and pencil graphite Next post from me in this thread will be scratch building a smoke machine for them and a lot more weathering.

The shed will now henceforth be known as The Hobby Hut!

hi mate, built a few flyers in my time still remember with fondness building an Airfix Lancaster (Dam busters version) when i was around 9-10 years old. Glue everywhere it shouldnt have been! Have a Tamiya Spit in my stash that i will get around to building eventually (everyone gotta have a spit in there collection, right?). Thanks for the warm welcome.

Dive in mate! vids start with a bit of sloppy research then a bit about the model, keeps me from going insane on furlough Yorkshire Air Museum and Eden Camp both worth a visit, been many many times. The Flak 88 at Eden camp is an amazing bit of kit (thats if its still there, last time i went it was outside in a very sorry state waiting for resto)

Just thought i would introduce myself. Been building scale stuff for over 40 years on and off. Just got back into it after building myself a new shed during last years lockdown. Was away from scale modelling for over a decade until that point with all my stuff gathering dust in the loft. It is all transferred to the shed now and i have started making again, continuing with half finished projects and tidying up dusty relics! I have also started a Youtube channel which documents a bit of the history behind the models and how to scratch build mods and turn standard plastic models to RC. If you fancy a look my channel can be found here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjg2mqzCFZladh7VKya7FVw In the coming weeks i hope i hope to post photo essays on how to build your own high output rc smoke machine for scale models (using hair dryer element wire!) as well as update on my collection/builds. Looking forward to looking at your stuff too (Man, theres some quality stuff on this forum!!) Great to be here, Terry