I made a slight error with the decals here
And only realized I had done so after they had set!
The red and yellow "do not overtake turning vehicle" are on the wrong sides...doh!
Guess I won't be entering this in any competitions

John, that would drive me insane!

I could just never understand why they made the guides the same material as the tracks when there was a possibility of them doing that.

Jeff

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John, that would drive me insane!

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Well... just when things couldn't get worse.



I let the pins in place for 2 days just the be sure before cutting the sprues..
Somehow I couldn't get the tracks from the track template without damaging them... Restarted it. ( hope there are some extra links is the brown bag )



My moral and patient temper have limits so I'm starting another Trumpeter kit, this one is driving me insane, I'll be doing both.
The second one is therapy to adjust with the first one
( Mad plastic laughter )

John: tell me why you torture yourself this way .
In the Trumpeter Hetzer kit there are the same style tracks, here's a tip glue them together as if there are no track pins in there. After you get the correct length add the pins. I cheated on the Hetzer and only added the inside pins where you could see them So there is an easy bit to this too, no need to go totally insane, just a little

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John: tell me why you torture yourself this way .
In the Trumpeter Hetzer kit there are the same style tracks, here's a tip glue them together as if there are no track pins in there. After you get the correct length add the pins. I cheated on the Hetzer and only added the inside pins where you could see them So there is an easy bit to this too, no need to go totally insane, just a little

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John did you miss this post of mine, or are you deliberately trying to land in the cuckoos nest. Simplify the track thing like I have said, nobody will see the difference afterwards and you will have plenty of sanity left to keep us campaign-a-holics in line



Paul

@John: Hopefully your Su-15 will make up for the pain of the Neubaufahrzeug. Those tracks would drive me insane...but I think the HobbyBoss T-26 in my stash has a similar track build.

I built the horrid 1/72 PM Su-15, and only after I had it finished did I discover that Trumpeter makes one. Hopefully the fit on that will be better than the Il-76 I'm working on.

Speaking of which...

I've put the Panzer 38(t) on hold to get some work done on The IL-76. The Panzer is probably 90% done, but the Candid has been calling to me from the shelf or some attention, so...

I FINALLY have all the sanding and panel line rescribing done. I'm still amazed at just how poorly this kit fit together. And like some Trumpeter armor, it seems over-engineered in some places. Like the cargo doors. You are supposed to cut out the molded in rear fuselage area, and replace them with separate parts. Um....no. I know this Il-76 was molded to accommodate different versions (Like the A-50 Mainstay), but....C'MON! There HAD to have been a better way. I left mine as-is and rescribed the lines to simulate where the door panels would be.



The clear cockpit window glazing also fit poorly. To their credit, Trumpeter molded the cockpit glass as a larger part that gets blended to the fuselage. Big thumbs up for that....I prefer that in my airliner kits. But fer cryin' out loud....at least make it fit! Lots of careful sanding, filling and blending with some Mr. Surfacer took care of that. The lower window piece just isn't wide enough to properly match the edge of the fuselage so it looks a but recessed. Again, Mr. Surfacer was used to try and even it out, but it still too recessed.

@Sal: that armored train looks awesome! I've been wanting to do some of the 1/35 railroad stuff, but just don't have the space for it. The HobbyBoss 1/72 railroad stuff has been calling my name however...

Yup.. it happened again.



So I tried one last thing, just when I was about to finish the second pin side I started cutting the pins on the opposite side.
No more than 2 mins... IT WORKED !!!



well, more or less just before the photo one link just grew some wings and flew