A 47 years old love

[Christoffer Ahlfors]

Oh, wow!

[simon_manning]

Excellent craftmanship, regards simon manning.

[Robert E Morey]

Beautiful details Frank. Simply amazing. Excellent craftsmanship! That turret basket is stunning.
Best regards,
B

[Frank Breitenbach]

Hallo, many thanks for the kind words.
Yesterday I cleaned up my worshop.So I found the extinguisher decals.
Kind regards
Frank

[Adrian Harris]

Everything turns up eventually




Unless you have a dog

Adrian

[Frank Breitenbach]

Hello at all
The next target is he mantlet cover. A very heavy challenge. The metal bands are ready.
I used M1,2 screws. But 2 screw taps are broken. So I drilled with a 1 mm drill, hole by hole 2 mm deep, a circle that I can turn it out to remove it.
Regards
Frank

[Robert E Morey]

Frank - great idea for broken tap removal! Hopefully it worked!

[Frank Breitenbach]

Hello all
The mantlet cover is a horror piece. Not nice but I cannot make it better. When you see Stephens cover, it looks like an original. Really a masterpiece.
I had used an old Bundeswehr trouser.
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Hopefully we can see us next year at Bovington.

All the best
Frank

[simon_manning]

Looks very good from here Frank, a difficult item to make and fit, regards simon manning.

[Stephen White]

That's looking pretty good, Frank. Not easy, as you say. I ended up using a very lightweight cotton callico but I wish I'd pre-shrunk it. When I applied the shoe-cream, it did shrink a bit. Frohe Weinachten. Stephen

[Frank Breitenbach]

Hello at all
A little progress.
I wish all a happy new year and stay save.
Cheers
Frank

[Robert E Morey]

Incredible details! The mantlet cover came out excellent. Your model combine my two favorite things - bulldozer and tank! Amazing work!

How do you like the Wabeco D2400 lathe? I don't see many of those any more. I have its bigger brother, the D6000 for nearly 24 years. Masterpiece of a machine.

Happy New year!
best regards, Bob

[Frank Breitenbach]

Hello Robert
Many thanks for you feedback.

Well, a tank with a dozer blade is nice, but a tank with a dozer blade and an excavator arm is better. See FFG/Wisent 1 or Wisent 2. Günter Gäbelein and I have a Wisent 1 – perfect to play!

I agree with you, Wabeco have really good equipment for us. But I am mostly working with brass and aluminum. So I have a costomised EASY 440. My tooling space is: 440mm/1250mm/125mm
https://easgmbh.de/cnc-maschinen/fraesmaschinen/easy/

Regards
Frank

[Frank Breitenbach]

Hello at all
A little progress.
All the best
Frank

My manual bending fixture.

[Frank Breitenbach]

Hello at all
The smoke grenade discharger are now placed.
Regards
Frank