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 Subject:  [Chapter] Hull Side Engine VentsList thread.  
  
 Date:  Dec 9, 2006
 From:  Paul A. Owen 
Hull Side Engine Vents

The early Pz. IV's hull side armoured vents where an open box with three cross slats, all welded together. It was constructed of thin armour plates, probably 8 or 10mm. The Tristar part, while good as-is, I felt could benefit from some thinning down.

To thin the part out I used files, sandpaper and scraping with my model knife. It's important to regularly check the progress to make sure that all of the slats are reduced an equal amount.

The assembly was bolted onto the hull at the rear through a final flange, this is not present in the kit so I made one from 0.010 sheet styrene. The bolts where added to the inside, these should match up with the screw heads on the outside of the upper rear plate. I cut the bolts off of a scrap kit and used them.

In the photograph below the top image is the part before I thinned it out, the bottom image is after. It's difficult to see in this photograph however, but the difference is quite visible "in person". The rear strengthening bracket that I added is visible in the bottom image too.

The part was then mounted on the kit as per the instructions. Since I am not using the kit fenders I had to add a strip of 0.030 styrene to fill in the gap left by the missing kit fenders. The finished assembly is visible in the second attached photograph.
 
Thread Listing 
  [BLOG] Tristar Panzer IV Ausf. C - Paul A. Owen - May 11, 2006
. . . [Chapter 1] The Lower Hull - Tub Assembly - Paul A. Owen - May 11, 2006
. . . [Chapter 2] Lower Hull Front - short shot corrections - Paul A. Owen - May 14, 2006
. . . . . . Lower Hull Front - Zusatzpanzerung [IMG] - Paul A. Owen - May 14, 2006
. . . [Chapter 3] Lower Hull - Rear - Paul A. Owen - May 23, 2006
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter 3] Lower Hull - Rear [IMG] - Paul A. Owen - May 23, 2006
. . . [Chapter 4] Fixing the Upper Hull - Paul A. Owen - Aug 19, 2006
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter 4] Fixing the Upper Hull [IMG] - Paul A. Owen - Aug 19, 2006
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter 4] Fixing the Upper Hull - Chris Oldfield - Aug 23, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter 4] Fixing the Upper Hull - Paul A. Owen - Aug 23, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter 4] Fixing the Upper Hull - Chris Oldfield - Aug 24, 2006
. . . [Chapter] Hull Side Engine Vents - Paul A. Owen - Dec 9, 2006
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Hull Side Engine Vents - Photo #2 [IMG] - Paul A. Owen - Dec 9, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Hull Side Engine Vents - Photo #2 - Bob layton - Dec 11, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . ... Aber fenders - Paul A. Owen - Dec 11, 2006
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Hull Side Engine Vents - Photo #3 [IMG] - Paul A. Owen - Dec 9, 2006
. . . . . . . . . little bolts - Saul Garcia - Dec 10, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: little bolts - Paul A. Owen - Dec 10, 2006
. . . Re: [BLOG] Tristar Panzer IV Ausf. C - Ian Flockhart - Dec 12, 2006
. . . . . . Re: [BLOG] Tristar Panzer IV Ausf. C - Paul A. Owen - Dec 12, 2006
. . . [Chapter] Bogie Assembly - Paul A. Owen - Dec 15, 2006
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Bogie Assembly - Photo #2 [IMG] - Paul A. Owen - Dec 15, 2006
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Bogie Assembly - Photo #3 [IMG] - Paul A. Owen - Dec 15, 2006
. . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Bogie Assembly - Photo #4 [IMG] - Paul A. Owen - Dec 15, 2006
. . . . . . wheel spacing?? - Glenn Bartolotti - Dec 15, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Re: wheel spacing?? - Paul A. Owen - Dec 15, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Wheels are not spaced evenly on the real Pz IV... - Kazutaka YOKOTA - Dec 28, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Wheels are not spaced evenly on the real Pz IV... - Glenn Bartolotti - Dec 28, 2006
. . . . . . road wheel Continental marking - Bob Layton - Dec 15, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Re: road wheel Continental marking - Paul A. Owen - Dec 15, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . road wheels not aligned correct???? - Glenn Bartolotti - Dec 24, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Did you see this Paul????? - Glenn Bartolotti - Dec 28, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: road wheels not aligned correct???? - Paul A. Owen - Dec 28, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: road wheels not aligned correct???? - Glenn Bartolotti - Dec 28, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: road wheels not aligned correct???? - glenn Bartolotti - Dec 28, 2006
. . . [Chapter] Weld Beads - Paul A. Owen - Feb 11, 2008
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