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BTR-80 Suspension help

caryl576

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Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 01:41 AM UTC

I'm now in the process of putting together a BTR-80 from the Zvezda (ex Dragon?) kit.

The suspension clearly needs some work and there are big holes in the hull where the axles enter. Does anybody have and pictures or diagrams of the area showing how it should look ?

Do they need external rubber gaskets or will filling the gaps with a flat plate do?

Karl187

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Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 05:08 AM UTC

Perhaps these will be of some use to you:

Those are from a walkaround at Dishmodels:

http://dishmodels.ru/wlk_main.htm?es=f

There's also this from scalemodels.ru:

I hope this helps a bit.

Good luck.

Spiderfrommars

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Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 06:02 AM UTC

http://www.army.lv/files/60.pdf

http://www.army.lv/files/226.pdf

http://vooruzenie.ru/publ/6-1-0-46

http://dishmodels.ru/wshow.htm?p=450

http://dishmodels.ru/wshow.htm?p=204

http://lunohodov.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=150185

caryl576

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Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 06:13 AM UTC

Excellent stuff, that's just what I needed (and another couple of good sites to bookmark for walk arounds too)

Now I just have to figure out what my scratch building skills will allow!

Spiderfrommars

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Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 06:34 AM UTC

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