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| Subject: | Re: Resicast D7 Dozer |  |
| Date: | Sep 3, 2002 |
| From: | A.Hill | |
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Hill"
To: "Andy Tiran1"
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Resicast D7 Dozer
> I've built the U.K (hydralic) D7, and think it's a lovely little kit,
but
> as with all Resicasts' output it's up to the builder to sort out a lot of
> the detail relating to major structural alignments and manufacture jigs
> accordingly (their Sherman Crab kit is flippin' nightmare) and as with so
> many of the resin manufacturers the instructions are not as helpful as
they
> might be; but if it easy where would the fun be!
> As for the wheels specifically, there are the least detailed part of
the
> kit. The drive, jockey and return wheels are okay, but the road wheels are
> cast into the runner and do not bear close examination.
> Finally, if you are desperate for a spare track link I'll let you have
> one, but, and I hate to pious, do try to contact Resicast direct and buy a
> few, I'm told that, like most of the smaller manufacturers, they will do
> component parts as one off orders if you ask them nicely and copying parts
> is technically ripping Resicast off. Every penny they lose that way is a
> penny that will not get spent on r&d; if enough people do it, it's no more
> new, unusual kits from the specialist manufactures.
>
> A.Hill
>
"Andy Tiran1" wrote in message
news:3d750f14@news.track-link.net...
> Resicast do or did a Caterpillar D7 dozer in 1/35 and I have heard some
bad remarks about it are they justified, I need to nick the tracks and
wheels from one so I need to know good or bad those bits are. Does anyone
have any spare track links that I can have to act as a master.
> Andy
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