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| Subject: | Re: Alan/Dragon SU-76m questions. |  |
| Date: | May 24, 2003 |
| From: | Christophe Jacquemont | |
Thanks Bob,
Your advice will be very helpful when I eventually start the kit :-)
Cheers,
Christophe
Bob Kerr wrote:
> Argh! The SU-76 nightmare! I did the Alan kit a number of years ago and it
> turned into a near-scratchbuild.
> I was determined to use as many of the kit parts as possible. Despite the
> fit problem, I decided to try to make the tracks work. The first trick is
> to get the tracks out of the sprues. without breaking them --this required a
> bunch of relief cuts to the sprues ... I basically nibbled away the sprues
> from the tracks (hard to describe). I sanded as much off the inside of each
> road wheel as I dared (it wasn't much), then used a new blade in the Exacto
> and shaved a bit off the inside of each guide horn on each track link,
> testing to make sure it fit the road wheels. It was a lot of work, but I
> thought they came out nice. |
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 | Alan/Dragon SU-76m questions. - Christophe Jacquemont - May 21, 2003 |
| . . . Tracks are a SERIOUS problem - Hassan Howard - May 21, 2003 |
| . . . Re: Alan/Dragon SU-76m questions. - David Nickels - May 22, 2003 |
| . . . . . . Re: Alan/Dragon SU-76m questions. - Christophe Jacquemont - May 21, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Alan/Dragon SU-76m questions. - Saul Garcia - May 21, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Alan/Dragon SU-76m questions. - Christophe Jacquemont - May 21, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Alan/Dragon SU-76m questions. - Saul Garcia - May 21, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Alan/Dragon SU-76m questions. - Bob Kerr - May 24, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Alan/Dragon SU-76m questions. - Christophe Jacquemont - May 24, 2003 |
| . . . . . . . . . Well I fudged it... - David Nickels - May 22, 2003 |
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