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Even on high-budget war movies---Saving Ryan's Privates,ect..----but it's not so bad---better than no Tiger at all---and only bothers us detail oriented history buffs

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Simon---you are starting to get adventurous now with re-forming this entire kit. I could picture you totally making a new kit of this instead

Hey is that the Tam-Key above left??

Adam

Edited By Adam Kuller on 11/05/2012 03:35:43

Echo Adam, Simon, wouldn't it be easier - simpler - quicker - less frustrating - Oh forget it, none of those words apply to your builds. In fact I'm amazed you're tackling this at 1:1 scale anyway. How about a 1:144 working replica instead

Pete

Hi Adam - with the amount of re-working involved it would probably have been easier to just scratchbuild the whole thing. Well spotted - yes that's the Tam-Key work in progress (I have now ordered a 10ml and also a MrHobby [from Taiwan]. I also have a Lifecolor

Pete - got enough trouble with 1:1 thanks, I think I'll stick with that for now

SimonT

Done a bit more tonight

Chopped the trigger area on the left frame

Test fit of parts

Excellent barrel fit

After considering how to go about this I decided to glue the two frame halves together and then try to sort out the details afterwards

I glued the frames then assembled the slide, slide lock, thumb safety and grip safety to help line up the two halves then covered it all in clamps

This has shown that the tolerence on the slide is about +/- 2mm so that will have to be addressed at some point

Last thing was to glue and clamp the barrel - I will attempt to sort this out after it is dry

SimonT

Holy smolies Simon. looks like a serious engineering procedure going on there.

Pete

Hi Simon

Looks like progress is being made albeit slowly. But I suppose that is to be expected considering the number of balls you are keeping in the air at one time . Anyway very few would have the skills to even attempt something like this let alone the dogged perseverance to see it through.

Jim

Ha didn't realise you had cracked on with this one Simon Just had a quick catch up and i see your up t your usual insane trickery Cant wait to see this one all finished and interested to see what you have lined up regards sorting out the magazine.

Craig

Evening all

Removed the clamps and inspected the results

I found that the frame was warped on two planes so the slide did not slide very well at all

The half of the frame curved to the right and the front 40mm was also twisted around the main axis

Half an hour with a kettle and set square saw it untwisted as far as possible

The slide now slides

Now it's roughly straight again I have filled the front end to get a better fit with the slide

Needs to dry out again now

SimonT

Edited By SimonT on 12/05/2012 20:11:54

I do love Blogs on these old LS kits. Following along closely.

Hi Simon

The warping must have been half expected given your experience with the styrene of this kit. You seem to have persuaded it to unwarp. I hope it stays that way. When you use the kettle does the steam affect the glue or the filler in any way?

Anyway Simon another step forward.

Jim