Tamed Panther: “Cuckoo”

[Jakko]

Interesting captured Tiger tank…

Where?

...nice use of the back of PE bending tool, and good advice on gentle scoring.

Thanks. If you need a 90-degree bend, it's usually much easier to use the back of the tool than the front — if only because pressing down is easier than trying to lift up from underneath with some flat tool.

 

[Edbert]

Good advice, I'd have lifted the tool while keeping the large part flat on the bench. I do think your way is better, less stress or reliance on the clamping ability.

 

[Jakko]

Doing that is how I ended up figuring out that it's easier to press down for folds like this

On to the front mudguards. I didn't see myself making these with my limited skills, but luckily, my father was taught metalworking in school long ago, and still enjoys making things from it. A while after I handed him the mudguards I sawed off the model and the aluminium sheet I used for the side skirt rails, he gave me back two copies of them in aluminium All I then had to do was cut them to size, dent them, and add strengthening ribs and rivets …



The ribs are 0.5 mm plastic strip that I scraped down on one side to make (more or less) half-round rod, while I made the rivets with a punch and die set. The headlight is from the kit, set on a piece of plastic card glued under the opening I cut in the left mudguard (to match the real tank). I did have to bend and slightly shorten the power cable, because as moulded it doesn't match the real Panther G.