British CWT 30 Austin Truck

Fravin

Fravin

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Can I post a truck tahat I'm building in this subform? Technically it's not an armored vehicle, but it's from the army. :)

Should I?
 
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Great! I would like to introduce me first. I'm from Brasil and I've building models since 1998. I love army's vehicles, armored or not, but I do aircrafts too. After a five years off the workbench I started this project, An CWT30 by Austin. It's a brand new kit, launched this year. It's forcing me to taking control over the basic modeling skills back, so, please be kind with any error I could made.

This is the kit:

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And this is how it started

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An them, I decided to replace the plastic pins by copper ones

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Fravin said:
Thank you so much. Pandemics was a tough period down here. The job shortage forced me to sell all my modeling tools. I'm starting all over again. Loved to find this community, you do a good job here!
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Hi and welcome to the forum. Pantherman
 
Fravin said:
Can I post a truck tahat I'm building in this subform? Technically it's not an armored vehicle, but it's from the army. :)

Should I?
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Hi and welcome, if you want to get technical then if the driver is wearing a steel helmet doesn't that count as an armoured vehicle? Show me in the rule book where it says that it doesn't! ;)
 
So, the build keeps going on!

The Geckgo kit isn't that good as I thought, the molding is fine, but the fittings aren't good.

The rear shaft has little connection points, it's not easy to built it on square.

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The engine goes tricky as little parts have to be put together.

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After a lot of sanding, everything goes on, and the result is satisfying.

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Thanks for following!
 
Hello folks, this weekend I took a lot of small steps.

The wheels took a large amount of time, filling the gasps and sanding.
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I use MIG Putty to fill the gasps. It goes nicely using a fine brush. You can sand it with regular sanding paper or use a small drop of acetone on a cotton tip.
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Just received this side cutter pliers. Look amazing, and the cuts it made are pretty flush. Do you know it?

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