Hi all, figured it was time to put some work into this build as it has been a little lacking in progress so far.
I think it was the track issue that threw me off this project as well as the fact that I can’t quite decide what main weapon loadout I am going for. I know that I will be using the ‘turret’ version of the tank, but not the weapons.
Anyway, I finally put the track pieces into sections:
Easy enough to build up, just lay them flat, grab the sections with your tweezers and dip the sections into some glue, press and move onto the next. A little dull process, but is soon done.
Next up were the sponsons, I did up a template in Illustrator cs2 as I wanted some perfect angles and I couldn’t trust my line work even with a square! Transfered the paper to the plasticard and trimmed out the main shape. After that, I cut along the top and bottom long section of the interior cut as I was going to retain this section to form the insides of the sponson. I scored the front of the small vertical cuts and carefully pushed them back inside.
After that, fix on a base piece to hold the ‘flaps’ in position and cut some tube section to form the gun housing. I tried cutting a section out of this as per the FW model, but I was in a rush and pretty much ballsed it up, so may redo later.
Next, onto the main turret housing. Again, I made some templates in Illustrator and printed out onto some card and from this, made a mock up of what I wanted and then again, transferred to the plastic. I cut out and glued down to the model but then realised that I had gone wrong!
The turret housing is different to the bolter version housing as it’s asymetrical and I was working off that model. So after going back to the drawing board and some more card versions, I ended up with this:
As always, thanks for looking!
