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  1. Hi all! Here's a model that I've been working on for some time. I've approached the build blog in a slightly different way insomuch as I've photographed the progress as it's happened and the build is now nearly finished. So here is the last few months work.(In no particular order). The whole build has been straight forward with some scratch building. The only moot point is the figures. After sending hours building them I'm not happy with my painting attempts so far, so their inclusion is up in the air at the moment. The Takom kit is a pretty decent representation of the subject but there are numerous small details missing that I hope I've improved on. The RPM kit of the ammunition cart on the other hand is a dog and needed a lot of work. I've approached the build from the ground up. The gun in real life was assembled from six main components the first being two large metal boxes that formed the base for the weapon. These were lowered into a pre prepared hole using eight jacks. The kit is sadly missing this structure so the idea was to hint at what is beneath the ground. Below is a shot showing the scale of this weapon. A monstrous thing. The first job was to thin the folding curved plates that are much too thick. As you can see the plate is molded consistently the same thickness all along the base plate. The thickness reduced with a great deal of scrapping and sanding. Rather than thin it all only the visible edge is reduced by tapering it. Next job. Added shallow box structure with plastic card. If you really wanted to go to town this could be three times as deep. A trip to my local home store provided a suitably sized picture frame to form the base. Pine block board was cut to size to fit snuggly into the frame. Layers of cardboard were then added to build up the surface. Medium density model board was then added and sculpted. All joins and the edges were filled with a two part wood filler. Next up some scratch building. The base boxes for the weapon were positioned by pulling each box on a set of removable wheels along a track using block and tackles. Once over the pre dug hole they would then be lowered in. From what I could make out from historical photos the tracks look like a heavy duty gutter shape for want of a better description. These have been created using Evergreen profiles. And in position. Two in total, one at each end. Below the metal eye that the block and tackle was attached to and the timber jack block and retaining wall. Retaining wall courtesy of coffee stirrers. The next two photos show added bolt detail to all four sides from evergreen rod. Riveting. The rail for the ammo cart was constructed from more evergreen profile. The top flange of I beam has been sanded down and slightly rounded. The sleepers are some plastic strip. The spacing between the sleepers was roughly calculated by comparing images of the ammo cart in relation to the rail. It's roughly 1m in scale. At the top of the image is a set of the wheels from the cart to gauge the track width. The axels needed shortening by 0.5mm on both sides to match the rail on the guns turntable. The wheels had three semi circular tabs(just visible) on each rim which were a pig to remove. Lots of patience. On to the cart now. I had plans to build two of the carts but I'd lost the will to live after building one. To build one half decent cart took a lot of work and there are still inconsistencies with the shape. The RPM kit was under ten pounds which I guess is good value as it comes with decals. The kit it's self though has horrible sprue gates and quite soft details. On closer inspection it only vaguely passes as a representation of what it is. As you can see by comparing these two images the shape of the body of the cart is off. The real thing being more curvaceous. A glaring difference is the attachment points of the handle in relation to the rear axel. Also the lever which I'm assuming locks the rotating mount of the shell cradle is missing. The assumption is as there are no obvious breaks and most pictures of the cart show a stick passed through the front axel to stop the cart rolling leads me to this conclusion. The wheels as mentioned before all had three semi circular tabs that needed removing with care but aren't too bad at all once this is done. Below after numerous hours already tweaking the kit its starting to take shape. I ended up completely remaking the handle out of soldered brass rod . This was the main reason for not making a second cart. It was tricky as every time I soldered one end of the cross rail the other end became loose. The lever was made from plastic card . Below shows construction finished. Additional details added and the travel lock keeps? completely remade,(the weird sticky out bits between the wheels). Relief that I bought two kits evident in the light gray wheel on the shell cradle. Finally the finished article with shell. I'm jumping around with the chronology here as I didn't start painting until all the construction elements of the model were finished. The decals went down well although the carrier film on the largest decal still showed after a gloss coat so the shell ended up rotated to hide this on its underside. Painted with Mig modulation set and given an oil pin wash. Weathering pastels from Mr hobby. The green of the shell I mixed myself so it's a guess. Next onto the shell loading mechanism. Some additional details including missing bolts etc. Painted as before. And with the same shell as before. That is it for now. I've loads more to show so I will post some more later today or during the week. Thanks for looking
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