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DML Heuschrecke IVb "Grasshopper" WIP
- Thread starter Tony lee
- Start date
Don't forget the Bubble Gum "T" :laugh:
Check this out, I figure I can get away with close enough.
You can see in the Voyager instruction they call for two washers and a stick of rod,I didn't think that looked beefy enough scale wise.
Since the plastic pivot arms are thicker I needed to compensate for that. Using some of the kit parts in combination,I cut a tubing spacer 3mm and 1mm and that gave me the same spacing as the kit part from the hull. There's a PE washer missing that I forgot to add but the assembly is not glued together yet and I can add that no problem.
Simple fix but effective :v
Tony lee
Check this out, I figure I can get away with close enough.
You can see in the Voyager instruction they call for two washers and a stick of rod,I didn't think that looked beefy enough scale wise.
Since the plastic pivot arms are thicker I needed to compensate for that. Using some of the kit parts in combination,I cut a tubing spacer 3mm and 1mm and that gave me the same spacing as the kit part from the hull. There's a PE washer missing that I forgot to add but the assembly is not glued together yet and I can add that no problem.
Simple fix but effective :v
Tony lee
:shwing!
Update Time
Today while working on the suspension I got to thinking. Here recently i've built a rash of Pz IV chassis and was wondering if during WWII if the Germans ever built any SPG Unicycles. :hmmm
I suppose during the prototype stage they used what ever was available to them. The kit gives you a choice of sprockets. Which one would you install?
Or would you mismatch them as the captured example had?
Stay cool if you can out there.
Tony lee
Today while working on the suspension I got to thinking. Here recently i've built a rash of Pz IV chassis and was wondering if during WWII if the Germans ever built any SPG Unicycles. :hmmm
I suppose during the prototype stage they used what ever was available to them. The kit gives you a choice of sprockets. Which one would you install?
Or would you mismatch them as the captured example had?
Stay cool if you can out there.
Tony lee
Hey Tony,
Looking good!! I love these types of vehicles, in a way a waste of a perfectly good Pz.IV chassis to make a sort of complicated gun delivery system :hmmm
As for the sprocket, I should go for the one with the rounded holes, just because it's on the pic of the original beast, you never know what they do with it in a museum.
Looking forward to see more !!
Cheers Erik
Looking good!! I love these types of vehicles, in a way a waste of a perfectly good Pz.IV chassis to make a sort of complicated gun delivery system :hmmm
As for the sprocket, I should go for the one with the rounded holes, just because it's on the pic of the original beast, you never know what they do with it in a museum.
Looking forward to see more !!
Cheers Erik
Geez, I leave town for a couple of days and everybody gets crazy! Fantastic stuff, Tony- cheers! I remember the boxart for the ancient Nichimo kit from back in the day. A mystifying bit of engineering on this marvel- I guess it was supposed to lay down a line of turrets in a defensive formation, trip after trip?
Gunfighter45
Member
Is it too late to vote for the round one? 
Looking great Tony !
Mike B)
Looking great Tony !
Mike B)
Moving parts are soo coooll!!! :coolio