Dragon M16 Gun Carriage

[Tojo72]

This one was a little difficult for me,only my 2nd halftrack.I also tried a little textured mud with Mig Pigments,I thought it came out OK.Any comments and suggestions appreciated,thanks for looking.

 

[moon puppy]

Rerago M16 Gun Carriage

Only your second...I hope my second turns out this nice. Jenny that's a neat tip there. May give it a shot this weekend.

 

[Tojo72]

Rerago M16 Gun Carriage

Thanks Jenny + Moon I am going to try that suggestion to spruce this one up a bit,thanks

 

[Kreighshoer]

that's cool looking! good work!

 

[Ken Abrams]

This is a very nice build. For your second one you should be quite happy with how it came out. I know from building one of these dragon M16's myself how fidgety that quad mount is to assemble and get all lined up, yours looks great.

One thing that you may find useful in a future build, the top frame on your cab is a little off. The two back sections should be glued on the inside of the cab armor and the front section gets glued a bit lower on the windshield and not directly on the top.

I can take some pictures of what I mean if my explanation is less than clear.

Nice job all around.

 

[Tojo72]

Ken Abrams wrote:

This is a very nice build. For your second one you should be quite happy with how it came out. I know from building one of these dragon M16's myself how fidgety that quad mount is to assemble and get all lined up, yours looks great.

One thing that you may find useful in a future build, the top frame on your cab is a little off. The two back sections should be glued on the inside of the cab armor and the front section gets glued a bit lower on the windshield and not directly on the top.

I can take some pictures of what I mean if my explanation is less than clear.

Nice job all around.

thank you Ken for your comments,just to clarify my 2nd halftrack,not 2nd build,and yes I was lost as what to do with that piece as the instruction pictures were pretty useless and I had no photo refrences,but I knew something wasn't quite right.

 

[moon puppy]

Well bubba, let me introduce to you the walking encyclopedia of halftracks, Mr. Ken Abrams. He is always ready to offer advice or comment, not to mention a coldbeer at the ready.

 

[Ken Abrams]

raiderfan2779 wrote:

just to clarify my 2nd halftrack,not 2nd build

Yeah that's what I thought you meant and still, you should be stoked with the results. As you mentioned, the instructions have some really vague bits here and there that leave you guessing. Getting the whole cab to come together neatly takes a bit of finesse and getting the cab to line up with the crew compartment can be a chore.

Seriously, it's a sharp build. B)

moon puppy wrote:

not to mention a coldbeer at the ready.

Yup.

And take my wife...

please! :p

 

[bob letterman]

Raiderfan, Nice job! I am working on the same kit now! The instructions on some items are not as good as they could be.

Bob




Ken Abrams wrote:

One thing that you may find useful in a future build, the top frame on your cab is a little off. The two back sections should be glued on the inside of the cab armor and the front section gets glued a bit lower on the windshield and not directly on the top.

I can take some pictures of what I mean if my explanation is less than clear.

Hey Ken,

I am nearing the part you are talking about. If you have the pics, I could sure use them!

Bob

 

[moon puppy]

I hope Ken doesn't mind me following up on this, I'll find some pictures later but the leading edge of the upper frame should be below the windshield frame highest point instead of on top. the result would be the top of the windshield frame being even with the top of the rail or what ever that over head frame is.

I don't have Ken's resources but I think I can find a picture that shows what we're talking about.

 

[Ken Abrams]

Well 'Moonpup Bob' sent me an e-mail earlier this morning asking about my absence as of late, so as I told him I'd pop in for a bit today. Things on the home front have been rather distracting and I apologize for being MIA. Hopefully I will be able to get out of this funk soon. (and of course I don't mind you speaking in my absence brother, anything helpful would be greatly appreciated I'm sure)

Bob 'Sr.',

I took some pictures of the kit parts to show where the frame part should attach to the windshield part, as well as where the frame part should attach to the inner cab wall. I hope these are clear enough and are helpful. Sorry for taking so long to respond.

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[moon puppy]

I knew it, as soon as I said something Ken makes time to come in and clear things up. Oh well, glad to see ya Ken!

 

[Ken Abrams]

moon puppy wrote:

I knew it, as soon as I said something Ken makes time to come in and clear things up. Oh well, glad to see ya Ken!

Sorry man, I started working on these pictures and stuff after responding to your e-mail, well not right after, my son had a two hour delay for school this morning due to the snow so I was hanging out with him until the bus came.

You can copy the photos to your post and delete mine if you like, I wont tell anyone.

 

[bob letterman]

Ken,

Thank you so much. If you hadn't mentioned this, I'm sure I would have screwed it up!

On M-16s, you da man! Or are all the M-2s and M-3s your thing?

Bob.

Oh yeah, thanks to you as well, MP!

 

[moon puppy]

I think Ken has the info on anything that had half a track in the U.S. Inventory. He's a walking encyclopedia on those bad boys. That's how I ran into him when I was building that Lions' Roar HT.

Ken, I yield to my better on this. I just saw the question hanging out there and didn't know if you're going to have time to catch it.

 

[Tojo72]

Ken,thats great,too late for me,but there is no way I could have figured that out by their directions,thanks again