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| Subject: | [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate |  |
| Date: | Oct 22, 2005 |
| From: | Paul A. Owen | |
Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate
The glacis plate supplied in the kit is wrong, but it is simple to correct. It is wrong in that the transmission cover and brake inspection hatches are located too high. This is quite evident in photographs.
To fix this the piece (DML part no. B31) must be cut cleanly at the join where the sloping front meets the horizontal top part. Once this is done the front sloping part must be shortened by around 1mm (a bit over), now a 1mm strip is added to the top of the sloping plate to extend it. I was VERY, VERY careful in adding this strip as the screw detail at the top of the transmission plate must be preserved. When this was dry the top plate was cleaned up and glued back on in it's horizontal position.
Back to the front a strip of 0.020" styrene was glued on leaving a slight gap, this simulates the welded join between the glacis plate and lower hull front. This weld detail is missing from the kit also.
This took me about an hour and was well worth it. It corrects the part in that the transmission hatch and brake hatches are "moved" down closer to the hull front. It does look a lot better now compared to photographs. |
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 | [BLOG] Super-detailing the DML Panzer IV Ausf. E - Paul A. Owen - Oct 19, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 1 - Interior - Lower Hull Preparation - Paul A. Owen - Oct 19, 2005 |
| . . . References - Paul A. Owen - Oct 20, 2005 |
| . . . Re: [BLOG] Super-detailing the DML Panzer IV Ausf. E - Jim Wechsler - Oct 20, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [BLOG] Super-detailing the DML Panzer IV Ausf. E - Aaron Cole - Oct 20, 2005 |
| . . . Re: [BLOG] Super-detailing the DML Panzer IV Ausf. E - Steve Jones - Oct 21, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate - Paul A. Owen - Oct 22, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate - Brian J Tears - Oct 23, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate - Paul A. Owen - Oct 23, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate - R.C. Hill - Oct 23, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate - Vinnie Branigan - Oct 23, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??? - Paul A. Owen - Oct 23, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate - Sam Dwyer - Oct 24, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate - Brian J Tears - Oct 25, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate [IMG] - Sam Dwyer - Oct 25, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate - Paul A. Owen - Oct 26, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Reworking the glacis plate - BEFORE [IMG] - Paul A. Owen - Oct 23, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Update - Paul A. Owen - Oct 27, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Update - Robert Garelli - Oct 27, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Could be worse - Hans Haase - Oct 28, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: I found it!!! - Paul A. Owen - Oct 29, 2005 |
| . . . Re: [BLOG] Super-detailing the DML Panzer IV Ausf. E - Paul A. Owen - Jan 12, 2006 |
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