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David K Smith
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| Chris333 wrote: | | In other news, my first T showed up in the mail today. |
To quote Han Solo, "This is where the fun begins..."
By the way, just for reference, I did some tinkering and measuring this evening and determined that the shortest possible truck spacing that does not impinge on the mechanism (simple cut and splice) is, oddly, exactly 1 inch. That of course scales to 450 inches, or 37.5 feet.
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DanMacK
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37.5 feet... that's 3.5' longer than the wheelbase of a GP40-2 or an FP7. Would 2mm really be noticable if you were to mount a slightly extended FP7 shell on it?
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Chris333
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OK I shortened up the artwork by 2 windows or about 12'. This is a "shorty" RDC3 sitting on a stock length chassis:
Here is the RDC3 (left) and a RDC1 (right) behind the RDC1 is a full length version for comparison.
The roof vent will get shortened a bit as well to help keep things in proportion. |
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Toni Babelony
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Woah! That looks spiffin'!
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David K Smith
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pray59
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Looks great to me! 
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trainspotter-usa
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| Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Nice.
Concerning the short size, as Stan Laurel used to say
"No-one will be none the wiser..."
Ian
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Chris333
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No more testing, I'm trying to build myself a set now. I bent and glued the microscopic ends and glued blocks of styrene into the left over space on the roof. This area will be shaped with a file while looking at photos of the real deal.
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Chris333
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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After the file:
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David K Smith
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Chris333
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The roof hump was backed with .010" and .033" spacers. Once folded it was filled with ACC, after that hardened it was sanded to match the roof.
The stock body was sanded down. The front and back roof corners were sanded a bit as well to let the new body slide down over it. |
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David K Smith
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Toni Babelony
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More! More! This is looking really good.
I'm getting envious, as I don't have the resources at hand to start a brass project myself...
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trainspotter-usa
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That looks great!
I find it both inspiring and demoralising at the same time.
Inspiring to see someone produce a vehicle that I'm familiar with. So I really have a feel for the size of this model.
Demoralising because I don't think I could ever produce something like that...
It is awesome without a doubt.
Ian
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spyder62
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looks great Chris, now just to find the time to learn photo etching myself.
rich
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