I'm building the Meng Smerch partially to compare it to the Trumpeter Scud, because they share the same chassis. I started a thread about the Meng Scud not being done, and became aware of the Smerch. It has now been confirmed that Meng will do the Scud.

I came across an issue when building the suspension pieces for the wheels, strangely, I had a similar issue with the Trumpeter.

The issue is, the axle for the front steerable wheel isn't parallel to the ground, in the picture you can see it cants up, while the two rear wheels (fixed) are nicely parallel.

You can see the rear ones are connected by the same unequal length arms as the front. However, the rear ones have a mount that also has unequal "arms" which compensate. However, the front has a basically flat disk.

It seems the solution is to swap the arms in teh front. However, notice there's a hole in the lower arm that will have a shock absorber attached, like in the back.

has anyone built this, and knows what the solution is?

Sorry for the diatribe.

Dave

I don't have this kit, or have built it, but it would appear that the top and bottom arms you describe are unequal in length and they simply need swapping over. I see what you mean about the shock absorber mounting point, but you can easily hide that behind a wheel. Having massive amounts of negative camber on the wheel is much harder to discuise!

Gary

Flip the part that is connected to A4. I looks like it might be upside down