I'm gonna try the trick with the FUTURE acrylic (Heck, I buy it but I'm too
damn lazy to put it on the lino, might as well get some use out of it!). It
sounds very promising.
Here's another question. I have a 25mm Phalanx model, but the wheel joints
look... weak. I'm wondering how best to reinforce them. Anyone tried?
Another question I was sort of mulling about: Anyone know if Jon or KR sells
parts for the kits? Specifically, I seem to have misplaced a couple of LIPPC
turrets. They look rather silly sans a turret.
Thanks as usual for all the advice. Re craft-
paints: The ones I've used have worked well and I am inspired to try the
extender with some of
my Tamiya and RP paints - They tend to dry too
quickly as I'm all too likely to commit a cardinal sin of painting and paint
with an open bottle or bottle cap. Extender would help slow that process.
> Thomas Barclay wrote:
> Here's another question. I have a 25mm
In fact they are rather a weak joint. Personally, for this model and the
Hoplite model as well, I glued the joint into place. When the glue was dry, I
drilled a small hole through the metal into the model, filled the hole with
crazy glue, and slid a very small nail through the hole. Worked like a charm.
The flat head of the nail keeps the metal joint securely in place.
I accidentally dropped the kit from about 12" off the table once, and it
landed on the wheels.The only thing that broke was one of the wheels (split
into the two parts). I checked the joints, and no problems.
The only thing to consider is that with a high speed drill, the friction tends
to liquify the resin, so that if you drill a hole 'X' deep, part of it fills
back up and hardens again when the resin cools.
For what it's worth, I think Jon figured out this was a bad fit, because
the problem seems to have been fixed with the Half-track kit with a
metal piece that runs from side to side, so the kit sort of 'sits' on the
wheel 'axle'.
Hope that helps.
one hand washes the other
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