Engine Grills on 2021 Tiger I

[Reinhard Ellinghaus]

Hello Everybody,

I am quite new to this type of big tank models, here my first question about a little assembly problem:
Is there Anybody having a suggestion how to bend the edges of the supplied engine grills in a exact manner.
Any hints for suitable tools for this task are greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Reinhard

[Donald Suttie]

Hi
while i have not got round to this,i have a large photo etch bending tool,made by Meng MTS-038 which is large enough to cope with the grills




hope it helps

Donald

[Brian Ostlind]

These tools made for thin brass. AT brass is twice the thickness. Pretty hard to bend evenly. I will just leave them flat like AT.

[Chang]

A regular size bench vice, a steel ruler, and a small hammer will do the work.

[Adrian Harris]

Something like this should make it easy. Check the sizes first though.

https://www.warco.co.uk/sheet-metal-fab ... chine.html

Adrian.

[Reinhard Ellinghaus]

Thanks Gentlemen,

pretty much infos! I will go for the steel ruler and a vice to do a first try. Allthough I love these types of nice tools as mentioned by Donald and Adrian. Will come back to the given references if I am not happy with the simple results.

Thank you, regards, Reinhard

[Chang]

Vince Cutajar had mentioned it in his thread :

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6937&start=480 , page 33.

A milling vice, some parallels, maybe with a hammer as well, were used. My way was basically following his.

[Reinhard Ellinghaus]

Thanks Chang, I did it in a similar war. Not as exakt as in your link, but ok for me