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Subject:

Re: Academy Lee - suspension problems

Date:

Jun 17, 2006

From:

Matt Roberts

I agree that 2mm is an awfully small amount to see with the naked eye and basing off of drawings can be troublesome - trust me I'm a CADD Civil Engineering designer, your drawings are only as good as the base info you use and your own skill. And admittably if the drawings you are working off of are not 'serious' engineering drawings where liability and professional status could suffer (like an architect designing a building that falls or a civil engineer having a bridge collapse) What real downside is to them being a hair off? A penstroke or plotted line of the wrong size can cause an error like this.

But on a more profound level....couldn't it just be the Academy suspension was designed for a tank with no fuel, ammo or crew in it? There are numerous aircraft kits that have thier landing gear too extended because the designer didn't know that the oleos compress under load. There are a couple of 1/48th FW-190s that have that problem, beautiful kits but just a bit stalky. Now with those kits I admit I can see the differance because the angle of the fuselage to the ground is off, but 2mm on a 35th scale tank would mean the suspension puts the hull about 3 inches in real size give or take off, if you were of the same size 1:1 next to a real Lee could you tell by looking that it's 2-3 inches taller than it should be???

Happy Modeling
Matt
It's only a hobby.....It's only a hobby.....It's only a hobby.....

Thread Listing

Academy Lee - suspension problems - Robert Gregory - Jun 15, 2006

. . . Academy Lee foul up - Herve Charbonneau - Jun 15, 2006

. . . Re: Academy Lee - suspension problems - Shawn Ferguson - Jun 16, 2006

. . . . . . Re: Academy Lee - suspension problems - Brian Bocchino - Jun 16, 2006

. . . . . . Re: Academy Lee - suspension problems - Robert Gregory - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . . . . Re: Academy Lee - suspension problems - Shawn Ferguson - Jun 17, 2006

. . . Re: Academy Lee - suspension problems - Derek Gomez - Jun 16, 2006

. . . . . . Re: Academy Lee - suspension problems - Robert Garelli - Jun 16, 2006

. . . . . . . . . Re: Academy Lee - suspension problems - Matt Roberts - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Academy Lee - suspension problems - Brian Bocchino - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Academy Lee - suspension problems - Roy Chow - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . . . . Re: Paul did you edit my reply? - Robert Garelli - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Paul did you edit my reply? - Paul A. Owen - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Paul did you edit my reply? - Robert Garelli - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . At least 2 other posts edited - Brian Bocchino - Jun 17, 2006

. . . PLEASE READ THIS - Robert Gregory - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . No worries - Shawn Ferguson - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . Re: PLEASE READ THIS - Paul A. Owen - Jun 17, 2006

. . . Paul didn't edited this thread - Steve Campbell - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . BTW [IMG] - Steve Campbell - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . . . . Re: BTW - Paul A. Owen - Jun 17, 2006

. . . . . . Re: Paul didn't edited this thread - Alex Hill - Jun 18, 2006

. . . . . . . . . Re: Paul didn't edited this thread - Robert Gregory - Jun 18, 2006

. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Paul didn't edited this thread - Alex Hill - Jun 18, 2006

. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: R. Gregory...Rivet Counter??? - Robert Garelli - Jun 18, 2006

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Why not !!!??? - Janusz Smolinski - Jun 18, 2006

. . . . . . . . . I didn't see the original version of this thread,........ - Steve Campbell - Jun 19, 2006

. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: I didn't see the original version of this thread,........ - Alex Hill - Jun 19, 2006

. . . Wow!!!.. - Michael Bedard - Jun 18, 2006

. . . . . . Re: Wow!!!.. - Glenn Bartolotti - Jun 19, 2006

. . . . . . . . . Re: Wow!!!.. - Glenn - Mike Bedard - Jun 19, 2006

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