01-29-2015, 04:33 AM
eh up all.
well it's that time again,are you ready for an update?
right then first off i got my casts back of the cannon barrels,which are mint.......thank you to a bloody good dude!jaitea
as soon as i started to mock them up i realized that i made them a little
too long,so i've had to loss about 4/5 mm off each one and the only place to do it was off the 3 shaped pieces after the tapered barrels,i found this to take a good while to get each one done.
here you can see that i've done two and still have two to go.
while i was pratting about with the back of the cannon which is joined to the mount i snapped the bond,which isn't the first time i've done it so i had to re-think the two arms. eventually i scrapped the metal parts and just went back to the model shop and bought some styrene rods and cylinder pieces,just because i know that there glued and the bond is much stronger.
next job was to get all four barrels on to the mount.so using some one mil styrene and some evergreen box tube i fixed it into position running some 1mm styrene rod through it,but the fit was to loose and the cannons just wanted to rest on the windows and not stay in position,so i stuffed the box tube with some blue tack and it worked a treat.
finally i decided to re-make the back section of the cannons and the two angular side pieces at the sides of the cannons,this took a little time but they look loads better the first ones i made.
i gave it all a shot of primer and this is it.
and with the cannons fitted.
well thats it for this post,hope you all like the progress.
thanks for lookin...cheers peza
well it's that time again,are you ready for an update?
right then first off i got my casts back of the cannon barrels,which are mint.......thank you to a bloody good dude!jaitea
as soon as i started to mock them up i realized that i made them a little
too long,so i've had to loss about 4/5 mm off each one and the only place to do it was off the 3 shaped pieces after the tapered barrels,i found this to take a good while to get each one done.
here you can see that i've done two and still have two to go.
while i was pratting about with the back of the cannon which is joined to the mount i snapped the bond,which isn't the first time i've done it so i had to re-think the two arms. eventually i scrapped the metal parts and just went back to the model shop and bought some styrene rods and cylinder pieces,just because i know that there glued and the bond is much stronger.
next job was to get all four barrels on to the mount.so using some one mil styrene and some evergreen box tube i fixed it into position running some 1mm styrene rod through it,but the fit was to loose and the cannons just wanted to rest on the windows and not stay in position,so i stuffed the box tube with some blue tack and it worked a treat.
finally i decided to re-make the back section of the cannons and the two angular side pieces at the sides of the cannons,this took a little time but they look loads better the first ones i made.
i gave it all a shot of primer and this is it.
and with the cannons fitted.
well thats it for this post,hope you all like the progress.
thanks for lookin...cheers peza