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I started the build on my limber around Christmas, mainly following the details from Dave's Limber build. I bought an Armorpax upgrade kit and am just absolutely blown away by the quality. I've not done any 'resin' building before. But the parts are easy to get fettled and fit. And I just love the detail. So most of my details... I'm leaving out because I am just kind of following Dave's build. <br/>
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A couple of things I will point out if you are going to build the Armorpax detail parts. One is that you should not put the 'drawers' for the shells and carriers at the lowest level. Or you will interfere with the axle. The second is that the nature of the resin is that it might have a bow or a twist in the drawer carriers. If you warm the resin with a propane plumbers torch, you can easily twist it into shape and straighten it out.</t>
Here is a picture of a lot of metal parts. Mostly have been prefit. I make it a practice to put some kind of paint or primer between any metal parts to prevent rusting or electrolytic corrosion that always happens between unlike metals. Maybe gilding the lily here... but habits are habits. And these models are largely built to live a long, long time!
This is a picture of the main parts with primer and some pre-assembly done. Nothing very unique here. The primer is partly Corlar epoxy primer I had left over from some other projects. And SEM-brand automotive etch primer in a rattlecan.
Fender with the brackets installed. I did a bit of reversal here because I thought the nuts in the original kit looked too big. So I put the Allen Cap screws on the lathe and cut them down to a smaller head size. And filled the Allen head with epoxy. They are still a bit large, but not quite as noticeable. The brackets at the top have been fettled to round the corners and make them look more like a stamping. I will probably do a bit more rounding on the edges.
This is just an odd little visual upgrade. Dave's detail kit has the spring clips as part of it. But these are leaf springs (Trivia... made by Firth's of Forth...) are too smooth to look like leaf springs. Solid billet was just a bit too slab-like. So I took a Dremel and made some striations to try and delineate the leaves. The small striations make all the difference in these springs!!!! I debated using a small mill, but just the little rough-looking work with a Dremel cut-off wheel, once primed, makes a big difference.
This shows some of the resin parts from Dave and Armorpax on the flange. Did I mention how great their stuff is? Instead of using the small Allen head's, I have used some 2/54 Brass screws and nuts. In the UK, these would probably be 10BA or similar BA size. But I could get these easily here in the Colonies. I'll be using these small brass machine screws and nuts elsewhere. I also took this flange and put it in my lathe and turned a 'seam' in it. That way it looks like an actual flange, with a line between the halves. If you don't have a lathe, easily done with a file and can be turned in a power drill while putting a line in it. Not in the photo, but I used some epoxy to simulate some weld or seam lines.
This is a start.... More to follow.
Cheers,
RPR
cheers Phil.
