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Excellent work! Coming along very nicely.
I see you even have the drain plugs. The big one sits directly under the engine oil pan so it can be drained.
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I'm very impressed with the accuracy of what you are producing. That transmission cover is a very complex shape, but you got it!
Here is a comparison of your drawing to a picture of my spare cover.
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Fortunately, having the real vehicles and several kits on hand, I can compare them all to each other. :)
Having looked at the axles in my AFV Club M35 kit, they look the correct size for the V100, and a few details would make them proper.
The axles in the M54 kit are too big (as they...
I am in the tender embrace of the flu at the moment, give me a couple of days to get to where I don't feel like I have a rhinoceros sitting on my chest and I'll measure mine for you. ;)
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Thanks, Gerald!
In my dreams my V has disk brakes, it would stop so much better!
Rooper, the disk brakes were not stock. :sneaky:
And I added a couple more pictures to post #7
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I knew I had pictures of a rollover V in my files. :-D
Here is Avengers III in Vietnam, somewhat embarrassed but showing the underside quite well.
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Another note is the weld lines on the hull.
The kit is accurately moulded with a slight ridge where the sides meet the roof - that should be there, the roof plate overlaps the hull side very slightly.
There is another visible weld line at the rear side of the hull, which is not moulded on the...
Hey, no worries SW! Your first choice (sniff sniff...no, no I'm perfectly fine..) may have better under-hull pictures, he has dealt with more Vs than I can even dream of playing with. ;)
I took a look at the Hobby Boss lower hull (I bought the kit when it first came out and never got around...
I have a 1/1 scale V100 which I did this thread on as I restored it -
https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/new-v-100.23235/
There are a lot of detailed pictures there for you to look at, particularly of the interior, which is totally inaccurate in the Hobby Boss kit. They based their...
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