manchu9inf

More Zimmerit completed tongiht

ROLLIN ARMOUR

Where did you get those brass bolts from that are mounted on the back plate?

ROLLIN ARMOUR

Very nice work. I learned a new way of doing zimmerit.

manchu9inf

Finally the humidity was less than 50% so i took the chance and painted the lower hull and suspension.

the smaller brass hex head bolts i bought from Scale hardware.

MAUS45

Looks good. Are you using the Mitsol metal tracks?

ROLLIN ARMOUR

One more question. What size are those brass bolts? I looked at the website and their are 3 sizes and i have no idea what size to order. Thank you for the help.

MAUS45

80 or 72 size? I used 80's on my 1/16 Tiger II.

manchu9inf

They are 1mm, 3.5mm long, you have to trim them as they do protrude from the back a good little bit.

manchu9inf

Completed the suspension today, here are some pics to help with assembly if you never have done the Panzer IV before.
Not sure if the single leaf spring is going to work since on my Panzer IV i had to replace the stock leaf spring with the Schumo replacements which were longer. we shall see, the instructions say to leave a 2mm gap (which you can see in the second pic) maybe this will help? we shall see.

manchu9inf

The suspension is now on the tank! progress is being made, slow but steady.
I did have a fit problem with the upper hull on the lower hull after i glued on the rear fenders, i will post pics of this tomorrow of what i had to do to fix it. It was fixable and now sits perfectly on the lower hull.

MAUS45

With the short L48 gun this mat turn out to be a good Danville battle tank. Low and should turn well.

Panther F

Wow... just buzzing through this one very quickly! It'll have paint on it soon I bet.





Jeff

ausf

I'm not sure if the IVs directions called for the gap, but what your photos show is exactly where I placed mine, then filled that gap with putty for help hold it in place. No issues for a few years so far, the spring is long enough at full deflection and not going anywhere.

Thoroughly enjoying your work.

manchu9inf

here is the corner of the inside part of the fenders that i had to trim as well as the molded line that i had to shave off to get the upper hull to fit properly, i don't think i glued the inner fender in the wrong place, but luckily it was easy to fix.

Tanker 10

So was it that the upper hull would not slide into the two oval shaped holes and would not go forward enough to get the two screws in up front?As you can see, I had to open mine just a little.

manchu9inf

that was exactly the problem, but i had to remove some plastic from a different location.

manchu9inf

Some more zimm was laid tonight.

kinzavrop

It's a museum piece. Are you sure you want to run this beast in Danville?

manchu9inf

Most definitely it will get its trial by fire at Danville. i have never fought a TD before so i am anxious to see how it will perform and how well i will do with it. Maybe it will be a great sniper with the low silhouette?

manchu9inf

More zimm done tonight!

TheBennyB

Looking real nice Will. What's up with the sleeve?..barrel wobble?

manchu9inf

the sleeve is the for the shorter L48 barrel. hopefully this weekend or early next week it will get mounted and i will be able to see how much shorter it will be compared to the longer L70.

Tanker 10

Manchu9inf, I hope you don't mind me jumping in here. As you know, I'm building one too. I've come to a portion of the build that I have a question for the Danville battlers and I would like to get their thoughts.
Here are two photo's, the first one shows the end of the barrel and the flash unit protruding per instructions. Now, they have given me a clear piece to go on the end of the barrel and they say not to use any surface primer on. I assume that means paint too. What is their thought process here, do they want it left clear so tank battlers can see the flash from 360 degrees? If I leave it off, the barrel will be short. Any thoughts?

TheBennyB

You can paint the clear plastic barrel end. Just don't use any primer, only a light coat of the same color as your barrel. This disguises the flash unit until it functions, you'll be able to see the bright orange through the lightly painted barrel end. This is the same as the tamiya Leo 2A6.

Tanker 10

OK Benny that makes sense. So they weren't thinking of you when they designed this TD. LOL

Thanks for the reply.