The life and times of No 28.

[Charles A Stewart]

Good evening everybody.

A small update, painted the bonnet!!

WOW: So what you say. I don't blame you, small steps, fitting in with everything else and I still haven't painted my shed yet. Anyway a picture speaks a thousand whatsits:-

The gentleman now has the appropriate accouterments for a potential S1 owner (mug of tea, essential. Pipe, optional)

I will varnish/lacquer the bonnet and store it safely until the rest catches up and I can actually present a complete model on this forum in the not to distant future(this year).

Have a good weekend.

Charles

PS The weathering on the tyres and wheels, is real soil/earth, not paint

[John Clarke]

Number one fan here. Nice to see so much detail on the Bonnet/Hood, "fake dust not rust" the order of the day
After all the panels are alloy weren't/aren't they?
Ok, apparently not on the model.
Ps love the light mud on the tyres and wheels.

[Charles A Stewart]

Good evening folks.

I have had to wait awhile for the headlight lenses to arrive, so was able to spend the afternoon pottering with the LED's and the wiring. Also catching up with the "TankFest" stream too.

Lenses tacked in place.

I have used watch lenses fitted over the light to get that rounded effect of the headlamp, I haven't scored them yet.

.... and someone said "let there be light"

Please note, If you are going down the road I am, you will require a larger badge to fix the grill on. nudge nudge wink wink

As always take care and have fun.

Charles

[John Clarke]

Nice, 1940's warm white.
"And let there be light" and God sent forward an electrician.

[Charles A Stewart]

Thank you John.

Knew someone would make the connection

[Robert Reid]

Your wheels/tires are superb!

Cheers,

RPR

[Charles A Stewart]

Hi folks.

Thank you Robert for your feed back, a couple of runs around my tank track is all it took, real weathering, where have I heard that recently?

Last week I spent some time(two days) cleaning/pimping a real 110 .... ....., for my sons school prom. It did look good though, but can't for obvious reasons post a photo here.

Anyway the grateful chap that my son is, bought this for me.

Shall be worn, if I ever get together with the like minded.

Take care all.

Charles

[Charles A Stewart]

Hi Folks.

A little more fiddly progress with No. 28.

The first fiddly bit was the Steering wheel bracket, which involves folding, bending and trigonometry(which isn't ain't my strongest asset). To save space here I won't include a photo of a pile of shaped cardboard or bits of odd looking Ali.

I'll just show the result:-

Still a bit of cleaning up to do, seems to work though.

There is a slight upward angle on the top, but I can live with that. The clamp for the steering column also needs finalizing too

The other side, obviously.

Another small concern I had, has hopefully been addressed, i.e "how do you fix the bigger headlights to the front of the S1?"

Glue a bracket behind and screw the headlight on. This should clamp the lens in place.

So there you go, that's it for now.

Take care.

Charles

[Charles A Stewart]

Hi Folks.

I hope all is well with everyone.

Small update, still tweaking this and that, I do love the BA system of nuts and bolts, being able for example to get a 10BA thread with a 12BA head thus a smaller profile bolt head for a stronger thread. I freely admit when I first got involved with this addictive 1/6 armour (armor,USA) stuff , it was bewildering to say the least.

Working around the cab of the S! I am using the above mentioned fastenings, more of that later.

Today's experiment, which I hope bears fruit, despite a broken drill bit in the most inconvenient place possible, right at the end of the hole

That's life, still here we are:-

True these are too bright, but its going work better with 6v rather than 3v which these are rate at.

Actually doesn't look too bad as is, top light needs to be orange/amber: I believe.

The holes in the battery case, for those wondering, are for a more prototypical seat fastening that doesn't involve Velcro. Curious?

Take care all.

Charles

[Charles A Stewart]

Good evening all.

For a while now I have been scratching my head on how to bend the kit supplied stiff brass capping for the cargo 'tub'. I have several hammers, a decent vice etc.

Before bashing out/wrecking the kit provided brass capping I thought to copy them and see how it works: It didn't

Therefore, plan something (from the alphabet, E,G or J).

Plan K:- break it down !

Here we go:-

Use original as a template and thinner brass. Other materials available too.

Carefully super glue/loctite parts in place.

I hope a bit of trimming will suffice once glue in place.

To finish, some cleaning up, attach rivets sort the holes for canopy posts and maybe add one or two extra bits, e.g just above the door handle slot, we'll see.

Take care.

Charles

[Charles A Stewart]

Evening all.

Today we were mainly doing electrics. Specifically testing the front end.

A word of caution first, I bought an extra couple of R/C switchers, same type as the one supplied with the motion kit. when I plugged it in the lights would light up dimly, not off, then go full on when switched on, odd.

Used the other one and everything is wonderful :-



OK, sorry about the spaghetti But it works!!!

Being a slightly later(1950+) S1, we get to have bigger head lamps

Didn't expect it this bright, at least the cats can see the S1 coming.

And I will hang the washing up too Now I can see it.

Keep up the fun.

Charles

[John Clarke]

Good to see your making light work of it all Charles.
Like the bendy thingy, I borrow a mate's when I need one coz I'm tight!