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Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 8:51 pm
by Christoffer Ahlfors
Oh, wow! :shock:

Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 10:33 pm
by simon_manning
Excellent craftmanship, regards simon manning.

Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 5:15 pm
by Robert E Morey
Beautiful details Frank. Simply amazing. Excellent craftsmanship! That turret basket is stunning.
Best regards,
B

Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 3:38 pm
by Frank Breitenbach
Hallo, many thanks for the kind words.
Yesterday I cleaned up my worshop.So I found the extinguisher decals.
Kind regards
Frank
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Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 7:30 pm
by Adrian Harris
Everything turns up eventually :D




Unless you have a dog :roll:

Adrian

Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 3:48 pm
by 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

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Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:37 pm
by Robert E Morey
Frank - great idea for broken tap removal! Hopefully it worked!

Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 8:31 am
by 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

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Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:02 am
by simon_manning
Looks very good from here Frank, a difficult item to make and fit, regards simon manning.

Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:58 pm
by 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

Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 9:23 am
by Frank Breitenbach
Hello at all
A little progress.
I wish all a happy new year and stay save.
Cheers
Frank

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Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 10:22 pm
by 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

Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2021 8:53 am
by 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

Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 6:53 pm
by Frank Breitenbach
Hello at all
A little progress.
All the best
Frank

My manual bending fixture. :roll:
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Re: A 47 years old love

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 3:08 pm
by Frank Breitenbach
Hello at all
The smoke grenade discharger are now placed.
Regards
Frank

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