Jagdturret

[urumomo]

;D ;D ;D

Excellent !

I'm fairly certain I'm putting the wheelbarrow in his hands --- another guy is begging for a crown and his Pfaust replaced with a scepter . He already has the perfect grin on his face
. I have this unending desire to have crumpled , steel-truss members draped upon the wall . But not from a fire-escape -- A Ferris wheel 8) .. with a couple or more of the brightly painted carriages on the street and hanging from the wreckage .
I have ideas . I want it all super-spot on with ' anomalies ' like that seamlessly stitched in

I'm off today after working the weekend
Been cleaning the cave and now I'm working on the mock-up of the street scene again .

I've lengthened it another 6 and a half inches - I had to .
The only reason I hadn't already was just trying to keep the physical size down -- but what's another 6 inches ?
I'd like to do the ground floor wall on the other side ,, so you're looking through the store-fronts broken windows and doors --
Pics and story later tonight for sure .

....... I was moving stuff to clean when I stacked the Panther's turret on the Krote's body ;D
Really gives a more vivid contrast in scale than just seeing them side by side

ciao

 

[urumomo]

O K .
Here's a summation of what's up so far :

I think I can take better pics with a potato . Maybe not . And Photobucket is insisting on a kitty again -- I've quit fighting with it ...




These guys in the 222 , up on the sidewalk , had thier tires shot up in the ambush at the end of the street - and they backed down around the corner to retreat .

The Panther came in from outside the city center to give the infantry armor support .

The other armor car is a 223 radio car assisting them .
Other infantry are waiting and laughing at the 222 crew .

The deck-screws are peoples -- there's probably going to be a couple more than that . I gotta get everyone built

These guys have more infantry up ahead of them across the street and are getting ready to snake around the corner and snuff out a basement --




It's been a few hours , and the Panther has backed down to it's current spot - being replaced by the Sturmschildkrote .
Now there's a bunch of other infantry congregating at that corner waiting to move thru

I was going to have the Panther's radioman posed to the left , doing radio stuff . I should put an Etch-A-Sketch in his lap .. . sitting in there waiting to leave . . SkeTching that Photobucket kitten

 

[urumomo]

I've been acquiring various street lamps to see what will work best .

I've got a couple more in-route , but here's some from Mig and Verlinden .

The Verlinden are definitely a better value --




You would think that the horizontal portions would be more substantial than PE , and they are with the Verlinden but not Mig





The Mig PE is only .15 mm - - 5-6 mm is pretty thin for a casting @ 1:1 :
The Verlinden's PE is double at .31 mm

The clear resin for the lamps is nice on the Mig .
I have one from Plus Models in-bound that's cast from all clear . It's a fancy triple .

I plan on using one of the wall lamps adjacent the steps

 

[urumomo]

One of the sets of KT 8.8 cm ammo .

I saw they had separate rims for the base , so they'd be easy to shorten to the 770
Very nice -- hefty 23 grams of solid brass - -- I had assumed they were hollow , but it makes way more sense they're turned from bar-stock at this scale

Waiting on the UPS man ;D ... he should have my Scale Hobbyist order and a bunch of dog food for me

Most of the additional figures are in this shipment and I'm back in the mood for people-building

 

[urumomo]

Thing scales to 805 mm .

Anxious to see this other ammo

 

[urumomo]

O M G Look at the size of the box they put it in !!





That's a lot of packaging invested in that tiny thing - -- - maybe the animal rights people were worried about the dog
It' actually the exact same size as the Tamiya Panther box
LOL

In addition to the box they packed the body in this double-wall , vac-formed container :



They were quite concerned for it

.................... and now I'm gonna build it burned up with holes in it -- - bwa hahahha

 

[urumomo]

Point , Tamiya





The Voyager case is on the left ( that set is only the cases , no projectile . ~ $ 6 )

9 bucks gets you spent casing and ready rounds from Tamiya and the empties are way more accurate .
Tamiya bores out the interior deeper and broader , resulting in a more accurate case wall thickness .

I need to find a set with separate shells



I bought this active suspension system made by Atelier Infinite from HLJ :




: I ordered it more to see what it was all about .

I can do better than that . ( my dead dad would describe it as " prettty Mickey Mouse " )

What's the deal with the two sockets sitting in there ?
That's how much weight it will hold up ? I'm fairly doubtful . the springs are super tiny . ( you can barely see them there to the right of the pile of resin parts .)

I now plan on adding some torsion springs for any axles I need displaced by debris in the street --- won't be much .

 

[BeebleBrox]

This build is beyond. Will you finish it? ;D

 

[urumomo]

Oh , It's getting finished . Bandana Man !! ;D



I have everything I need now -- either on hand or in-route .



More back story -




The belligerents are down in the druggist's basement . -- huffing the hew-doo and what-not ;D

These store-fronts are off the dio but relevant to future street debris . gotta have a mannequin from the tailor's
I'm having a meet and greet with all the characters once I get everyone built - . just so I know everyone's comfortable with their post .
. . . I hope that nun isn't there -
Maybe I'll have my Cocker do it .. . . .

 

[urumomo]

I'm going the simplest route to a pose-able suspension .

That AM set is crazy .
To their credit , they call it a " Movable Suspension " . It's moved me to do something else

For a static display - assuming you don't want to fix the wheels to the dio's terrain - all you need is a something to hold the swing arm where you place it ( and keep it from falling out of the hull when you handle it )


A friction connection is plenty .






The kit uses those pins to align the swing-arms into the ' neutral ' position by engaging in that groove in the arm :





For this dio I only need a few wheels displaced upward - none downward as would be also needed for really uneven terrain - so I've freed the arm to move upward from the pin on the hull but not downwards .





Ideally , a small wood-screw driven axially into the interior end of the arm via the little hole in the hull receptacle would secure the arm and provide friction BUT trying to get a driver in there without modifying the hull is a pain -- well , maybe a little off-set driver would fit ,, and I don't have any screws on hand that are small enough anywaze . they need to be tiny ,. but with a washer and fiber washer . Yep 8) much more elegant .





I'm leaving enough wheels in the neutral position so I needn't worry about losing the proper height .
If you were doing all or most of the wheels you would need to establish some stops to prevent it getting wild on you .
But again - you would only really need a couple for each side to act as a reference


The good thing is you can cut the pin away at any time - so you could set up the interior portion and be ready for whatever terrain later on :

 

[BeebleBrox]

Nice done with the adjustable suspension.
By the way, I had to google the word huffing and I figure there is not much of resistance in that basement.

 

[urumomo]

;D ;D ;D ;D That's hilarious

Did you Google " hew-doo " ? ;D

 

[urumomo]

That's looking aft . cofferdam'd to conserve epoxy and keep it neat .
I'm basically leaving the back corners and the right-front fixed .
I don't need them displaced plus I don't want anything in the way of the interior build for the radioman's spot .





I coated the ends with grease prior to placing them into the holes to avoid additional fun & colorful language :

 

[BeebleBrox]

Yes I did, no straight forward explanation but I think it means chopping/removing stuff, ill guess some proper huffing is handy.

 

[urumomo]

news to me - I've never heard of it ;D




I'm thinking adding this parked car - in front of the bistro :



Sitting there with only a few bullet holes from the gunfight 8)
..... the other little car will be parked at the opposite corner but more involved in the whole ' collateral damage ' thing



This whole scene began at like 4:30 - 5 a.m. - just before sunrise

The 222 , on patrol , surprised these huffin-ninnies ( I think there's a J or two in there . as in swimming )
A fire- fight breaks out and the 222 pulls back to the corner until the cavalry arrived .
After that , they pulled further back to their present location to make repairs .

I ordered a whole mess of spent 20 mm rounds to litter the street , especially at the corner .

 

[urumomo]

 

[urumomo]

these 5 swing-arms are fixed :





and it behaves as expected





I just cut the kit's positioning pin ( stud ? ) away for all the poseable ones -- so they can go up or down as far as space will let them .



Time to start the Friuls . and finish painting the wheels

 

[BeebleBrox]

Its a long way home from Huffingstrasse.
Looks greate!

 

[urumomo]

;D ;D

The street with the 222 & 223 is Lange Reihe strasse .

I have personal experience with said Hamburg street , like 30 years ago
and it's appropriate for the build


Huffinstrasse is now the name for this whole dio 8)

 

[BeebleBrox]

Started any figurepainting for the dio? Me myself are doing that right now. Trying to find a technique thats suits me.