Armortek

Your Jagd is going to be fantastic. It'll be able to take the biggest blank firer to give you the biggest bang ever. Keep up the good work

Thanks Ant

Hi fellas.

Thanks for your interest and comments, all most welcome.
Well the gun barrel has gone off for turning this week we could not do that due to the length it just could not be done on the lathe we have here.
So back to the cutting, this time the lower hull side panels. Below are a couple of pictures of the cut rear section and the 6mm backing plate attached with 4 cap heads.

We came up against a small problem here how to cut an accurate hole the same size as the idler bush in the backing plate so that the plate could fit over the bush and so have a greater and stronger surface area.
With the gear we have here it is not so easy to cut a hole over 30mm dia due to chuck size etc. The solution we came up with was to reduce the diametre of the section of bush that sticks through the side plate, this was taken down to 30mm and the hole in the back plate then bored on the lathe.
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The last picture is of the two rear sections complete and waiting to be bolted back to the other halves.
Cheers for now Paul & Vinnie.

Paul,
Those side plates are massive! Loving this project, thanks for taking it on! Its going to be awesome. Are you making it for yourself or a customer? (not that it matters -just curious!).
Best regards,
Bob

Hi Robert/

Thanks for that mate... this is mine all mine
Cheers Paul

Hi fellas.

Little bit more progress over the weekend.

This is the hull lengthened but still with the gap in the floor and pannier floors to go in, the latter needed all but the front two holes re drilling through the pannier sides to fit but with a bit of a tweek here and there and a few swear words they went in O.K.

Second picture shows the hull extension now complete,

and the last shot shows the pannier floor extension pieces in and the gap in the floor filled, very happy with how its gone so far especially as the main holes for the hull side plates and pannier sides etc still lined up spot on with the ones in the rear plate and glacis.
Nearly time for some interesting bits to start.
Cheers Paul & Vinnie

Hi Paul,

Looking good mate, and at this rate you will be driving it round at the open day. I can't wait to see the Citadel go on

Paul.

Paul,
Glad you are keep 'er for yourself. Its going to be a fantastic model. Enjoying every post, keep up the great work.
Bob

Hi Paul,
Hope you and the family are all OK.
This is going to be one hell of a model
Its a good job you have a large panel van to get it about are is it going to have a removable barrel for easier meneuvering in back of van.
Best regards Roy & Taylor

Totally enthralled with the project

Hi Fellas.

Got a bit further but still waiting on the gun barrel being tapered for us...so we set off to have a go at the bits that we could do while we are waiting.

had a bit of a go at the rear deck and made a bit of a modification on the main engine hatch, wish I had done this on the King Tiger now as well.

Then we started to have a go at some of the parts for the main gun

I don't mind owning up to the fact that this has been and no doubt will continue to be a steep learning curve for me

Old jokes about square pegs and round holes come to mind here

except this is round tools and square holes

Thanks for the tip Mark
Cheers for now. Paul & Vinnie

Hi Paul

Great work!

Best regards,
Chris

Hi Paul,
Thats very impressive !
Can you tell me what was the mod you did to the engine hatch or did i miss something.
Regards
Steve

Hi Steve.

I have milled out the engine hatch so that it is recessed, and opened up two holes in it where the air intakes fit normally with two screws, the intakes themselves have been milled out and then using a dovetail end mill i formed a recess to make them appear hollow, two rings were then turned to fit into the holes in the intakes and likewise in the hatch with a 3mm spacer ring to allow the intakes to sit above the hatch as per the kit, phew basically the intakes are hollowed out
Cheers Paul

Paul.
Thanks for the explanation, I noticed the hatch was recessed but assumed that was the way it was supplied, I must say it does look very good and will be looking to do something similar with my Panther hatch.
Regards
Steve

Hello Paul

I have been watching this for a while, really nice piece of engineering work, coming on in leaps and bounds.. it never stops amazing me the level of talented people on this forum!!

Kind regards Tony.