Renault Ft, 1/16 scale.

[moon puppy]

Looks sharp

 

[Tim A.]

Finished the chop/cut/rebuild on the tail skid assembly. I made the rods from styrene rather than brass so that I could drill and pin them to the kit's handles. I felt a brass to plastic glue up would've been weak.

 

[jeaton01]

Fine work. Your bench is way too neat!

 

[moon puppy]

Looks like fun stuff

 

[Tim A.]

Looks like fun stuff

Is'nt strange what we consider "fun," Bob...haha.

 

[Tim A.]

Fine work. Your bench is way too neat!

I try to clean up a spot for a pic. But, I had to buy a new mini torch and when something like that happens it usually snowballs into a general reorganizing and cleanup...haha.
The room IS looking pretty good this morning, though. It's a small 10×12 ish spare bedroom I share with my wife's work table.

 

[Tim A.]

I lost the mufflers tail pipe somehow. Sprue tree to the rescue. It happened to be the same diameter and have the right curve. I

t was just a matter of drilling it out and inserting in place.

 

[Rhino]

I try to clean up a spot for a pic. But, I had to buy a new mini torch and when something like that happens it usually snowballs into a general reorganizing and cleanup...haha.
The room IS looking pretty good this morning, though. It's a small 10×12 ish spare bedroom I share with my wife's work table. View attachment 170728View attachment 170729View attachment 170730

Yep. You're a Sicko!

 

[jknaus]

Loving this build. Looking so good.
James

 

[Tim A.]

Loving this build. Looking so good.
James

Thanks James!

 

[centaur567]

Looking great!! I too have a couple of select spruces in my stash just for that reason. Gary S.

 

[Tim A.]

Building the FT's unique track frames. Of course, like most have done with this kit I replaced the plastic molded top idler frame suspension spring with real ones. These frames are a kit in themselves, and are an exercise in putty filling, filing sanding and getting rid of ejector pin marks.

 

[moon puppy]

Looks great Tim, glad you got the image size sorted out.

 

[Tim A.]

Looks great Tim, glad you got the image size sorted out.

Thanks Bob.
Right now I'm resizing through my photo editing app. Curiously that app, which I'm calling "Hal" now, doesn't seem to like it to much and refuses to send it to my phone's gallery. So, I out smarted Hal and screenshotted...shooted? them while in the app. That sends them to my gallery where I can crop them. It works for now but, I'm sure there's an easier/better way.

 

[moon puppy]

Check permissions, it's always permissions.

 

[Brokeneagle]

Looking really nice!

 

[errains]

Looking quite Excellent there Sir Tim!!

 

[Tim A.]

Looking really nice!

Thanks Ian!

 

[Tim A.]

Looking quite Excellent there Sir Tim!!

Thanks Errains!

 

[Greg Kimsey]

Your skill level continues to impress! I love this build my friend.