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| Subject: | [Chapter] Chapter 4 - Starting the Upper Hull |  |
| Date: | Nov 10, 2005 |
| From: | Christopher Wilson | |
Chapter 4 - Starting the Upper Hull
OK, since I wanted to save the gun assembly for later I decided to start on the upper hull and fighting compartment next. So we are skipping ahead to step 6.
However, I have to say I find Dragon's instructions for this model to be one of their of their poorest efforts to date. Many things are simply implied and there is no reasonable order of assembly. This makes for a more difficult model than necessary and calls for a lot of dry fitting and some good references. At best they can simply be called ambiguous.
Those same references will come in handy when it comes time to build the fighting compartment because there are some things incorrect in Dragon's placement of things compared to photos of the real vehicle. I'll get to those later.
The upper and lower hull mate together on basically three parts, C1, C2 and B4. Take care to attach B4 to C1 first to avoid a nasty gap, the resulting seam is OK, it was there on the real vehicle. Then attach C2 to the hull, followed by the joined C1/B4 assembly.
The rear plate will have to be dealt with all by itself for problems I'll get to when the time comes, but for now it is put aside in the box.
One other thing I did at this step was to attach C15/C14/C22 to the hull. The reason is that during dry fitting I determined it would be difficult to get this right after the fighting compartment was on and I'd rather shape the fighting compartment to it and have a correct join and angle. So I did the opposite of what it appears Dragon suggests.
That is all there is to the basic structure and this gives us a nice platform to start the fighting compartment sides and rear, which is up next. |
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 | [BLOG] Building the Dragon 1/72 Sd.Kfz. 164 Nashorn - Christopher Wilson - Nov 5, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 1 - The Parts - Christopher Wilson - Nov 5, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 2 - Running Gear/Lower Hull - Christopher Wilson - Nov 6, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 3 - PE or not to PE - Christopher Wilson - Nov 8, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 3 - PE or not to PE - Doug Chaltry - Nov 10, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 3 - PE or not to PE - christopher wilson - Nov 10, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 4 - Starting the Upper Hull - Christopher Wilson - Nov 10, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 5 - Fighting Compartment Beginnings - Christopher Wilson - Nov 13, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 5 - Fighting Compartment Beginnings - John Barnes - Nov 13, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 6 - The Gun Part 1 - Christopher Wilson - Nov 15, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 7 - The Gun Part 2 - Christopher Wilson - Nov 17, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 8 - The Gun Part 3 - Christopher Wilson - Nov 19, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 9 - The Rear Hull Plate - Christopher Wilson - Nov 21, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 10 - The Front Upper Hull - Christopher Wilson - Nov 23, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 11 - Fighting Compartment Part 2 - Christopher Wilson - Nov 25, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 11 - Fighting Compartment Part 2 - Doug Chaltry - Nov 26, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 12 - Fighting Compartment Part 3 - Christopher Wilson - Nov 27, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 12 - Fighting Compartment Part 3 - Mike Tittel - Nov 27, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 13 - Fighting Compartment Part 4 - Christopher Wilson - Dec 1, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 14 - Painting Begins - Christopher Wilson - Dec 2, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 15 - Tracks and Roadwheels - Christopher Wilson - Dec 6, 2005 |
| . . . [Chapter] Chapter 16 - Conclusions - Christopher Wilson - Dec 26, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 16 - Conclusions - Paul A. Owen - Dec 26, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 16 - Conclusions - christopher wilson - Dec 28, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Chapter 16 - Conclusions - Doug Chaltry - Jan 12, 2006 |
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