Armour Dreams

[Jonathan Moore]

There doesn't really seem much to show you because I have been fabricating and machining lots of components ready to install into the hull. It all takes loads of time for what seems very little result. Firstly sorry for the quality of the pictures the light wasn't very good tonight. As you can see from the pictures ,the main hull has been welded together and over the next week I will attempt to weld the various components in place. I hope by tomorrow night to have rolled the front of the hull but its a major job with my very limited equipment so it may take more than one attempt but we will see.

The 3rd and 4th pictures are the inner and outer bearing houses for retaining the radius arms into the hull side and the plates with the holes in are strengthening ribs. First job tomorrow, before rolling the front, is to get the 4 front housings in place and accurately in line. Not an easy job by hand, these housings would have been machined on a special machine so that everything lined up perfectly but I don't have such a machine so fingers crossed.


Jon

[kevin powles]

Looks suberb, well done.

[James P]

Really amazing fabrication skills there in your build. Why the Dunkelgelb for the interior Vs White ??

[Jonathan Moore]

I am glad that it meets with your approval, its good to hear peoples comments and suggestions they all go into the computer.

Its not actually Dunkelgelb its the correct RAL colour, RAL 1001 Ivory for the interior of German tanks. I assume that white got dirty too quickly and maybe it reflected any interior light too much but I don't actually know for sure.

Jon

[David Dunlop]

Jon,

Nice work.

I recall reading somewhere that German Armour was often two toned inside. The ivory colour you are using being applied to the upper portion of the interior, but the lower hull area sometimes left in red primer. Have you ever run across this?

David

[Dave Newcomb]

Hi; Just a note; Many engine mfgrs have marine/ industrial options that feature a reverse rotation. It's often a cam/ ign change. Newc

[Jonathan Moore]

David, You are right regarding the two tone interior colour but from what I can ascertain it was a mid to late war trend intended to save time and paint. Although in reality there doesn't seem to be any concrete evidence as to why. I think that Its unfortunate that so much time and research is spent on every detail of the bigger German tanks and that these earlier models, that were so important, are largely ignored.

Jon