RCU Forums - View Single Post - M32 Build
Thread: M32 Build
View Single Post
Old 09-01-2016 | 09:19 PM
  #3  
RichJohnson's Avatar
RichJohnson
 
Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 2,891
Received 425 Likes on 262 Posts
From: San Diego
Default

I got the boom mostly assembled. I have a few more things I want to solder on but that will come.


I had to cut 1/8 inch off each side of the taigen chassis to make the M4a3 hull casting from Nick Aguilar fit onto it. What a job that is. Takes a good half an hour per side. Its messy rough and tough on the face if you don't have a shield while using a dremmel cut off wheel


Here are the two small hatch tanks Im working on. The M4 and the M32B3. I have roughly fit the 3 piece tranny cover that comes in Christians M4a4 kit onto the taigen, but its not fitting well since its was made for a HL. Its too tall and long. I cut the bottom back and heated it up to reshape it a bit after grinding away lots of the material inside. Its still about 1/16 too high pushing the hull back so I am going to trim that much off the bolt bar, then reshape the bolt bar further forward on the tranny cover and sand the bolt frame braces of the 3 pieces back to shape. Should work in theory, we will see. Otherwise I will just cut down another nick tranny cover to fit like the m4 or maybe try to use the taigen, but it has a few issues preventing the hull from sitting down in place. Metal is so tough to work with.....
Attached Thumbnails Click image for larger version

Name:	NCM_1206.JPG
Views:	1926
Size:	3.60 MB
ID:	2179276   Click image for larger version

Name:	NCM_1216.JPG
Views:	1877
Size:	2.26 MB
ID:	2179277   Click image for larger version

Name:	NCM_1214.JPG
Views:	1703
Size:	1.85 MB
ID:	2179278   Click image for larger version

Name:	NCM_1217.JPG
Views:	1941
Size:	2.22 MB
ID:	2179279