Hi my friends, after a short vacation I’m back for more. Work on the loading carts is finished
Here are the last details to it.
The beds are made next, a styrene master is made using .80 styrene sheet
Measuring 148mm long x 20mm, the two sides are 148mm x 3mm
Then 3 cross members are made
The parts are glued together
Two strips 3mm and longer than the bed are glued on the top and trimmed to size
Next the top is made with .010 styrene it is cut a little bigger and trimmed to shape
I made it 21mm x 150
I used a ¾ piece of pipe to hold the styrene in place as it dry
After trimming the excess styrene I made a mold of the bed
Time to try it on the cart
The second bed is made and trimmed to the correct length, the charge bed is shorter
Than the shell bed, it is cut to 128mm long
Now the bed locks are constructed using 0.80 styrene, 8 blocks 6mm x 5mm are cut
This are cut to shape, it looks like socks
Here the charge bed and the side locks in place, the locks prevent the bed from moving,
When the charges are ready the locks rotates allowing the bed to be pushed to the side and into the loading platform
Now is time to make the box for the charge cart, I think it contains the fuses for the cartriges?
I used a .050 styrene sheet, two side panels of 7 x 7mm and four 20 x 7 mm panels
The parts are glued to form the box
Two strips of small chain from the Aber famo set are used for the box door
The box is dry tested on the cart
Styrene rod is used to simulate the hinges
Again 0.50 styrene is used to make the cartridge retainer bar, two strips
2.5 x 8mm and one 2.5 x 22mm
It looks like this, the sides are cut at an angle for it to fit correctly
Two Verlinden resin bolts are glued at each side
Fit test of the aluminum cartridge
I used the brake levers from a Tamiya 88 for the carts brakes
I made resin copies of a small hand wheel for the bed looks for each cart
A small piece of styrene rod is used for the small handle on each hand wheel
Here all the parts are already glued in place and the carts are finally finished
Both carts side to side, the shell cart have one side of the bed locks lowered
So the bed can be push to the loading platform
Comparison of the carts
Charges cart
Shell cart
Some of the reference photos
With the carts finished the utility bed is next
The model instructions tells you to use this bed as the shell loading bed, but it is a
Utility bed, it is used to help load the barrel cleaning brush into the breach block
To clean the barrel.
The bed had the handle holes opened
A third handle hole is made on the center of each side, but first the center reinforcement rib was cut so the new hole can be made
The area is ready to be drilled, the two locating pins are also removed
The area is marked and the hole drilled out
The bed finished and already primed
A couple of reference photos
That’s it for now, still a couple of mods to do but it is slowly getting there
Thanks for following!
Abdin
