M7 Priest

[Dave Dibb (Armorpax)]

Hi All,

Got the basics in place to start building a shell around, a little more work on it tomorrow with luck.

Cheers

Dave


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[Dave Dibb (Armorpax)]

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[Adrian Harris]

Starting to take shape

I hadn't realised there were so many different angles and curves on an M7.

Adrian.

[Dave Dibb (Armorpax)]

Hi All,

Just a little progress this week.

Cheers

Dave


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[Dave Dibb (Armorpax)]

Hi All,

I hope to have the basic shell finished tomorrow. The Plasticard upper hull locates over the Armortek pannier floor upstands and should need minimal fixings to keep it in place. By using the steel and aluminium of the Armortek hull all the way out to the edges it will protect the plasticard upper hull once its a running model.

I need to trim off the exposed pannier floor upstands left showing by the earlier style body and take off the rear overhang on the side plates to backwork the lower hull, but I will do that later when I get to grips with the metal work.

Best regards

Dave









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[Dave Dibb (Armorpax)]

Hi All,

Basic structure now complete,

Cheers

Dave






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[Fredrik Jorgensen]

Dave......i really enjoy seeing your work progress.
I have a question, how do you get all the detail on the gun to be so superb, and all of your other work aswell.
Im thrilled to see all the small things.
Is the material you use easy to work with or do you use clay or something. Im not familiar with the way of constructing things from resin and plastic.

Regards
Freddie

[Dave Dibb (Armorpax)]

Hi Fredrik,

I have always worked with styrene (plasticard) and plastruct so find it a pretty easy medium to work with, I think however it is just down to what you are used to. I look at what some of you are doing in metal and what people like Mark and Tim Bowman do with 3d drawings and this probably has the same effect on me as my work in plastic has on you

Best regards

Dave
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[Dave Dibb (Armorpax)]

Hi All,

Got the ring mount made today and assembled and dry fitted East Coast Armoury's excellent drivers visor.

Cheers

Dave



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[Derek Attree]

Hi Dave
Cool project. Looking real good.

Derek
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we must stop making stupid predictions

[Dave Dibb (Armorpax)]

Hi All,

I've been catching up on master making so havn't done much to the M7 recently. Having cleared some of the outstanding pieces I needed to do I have spent a little while on it today cutting in the torched edges of the steel.

Cheers

Dave





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[Dave Dibb (Armorpax)]

Hi All,

With work on the Comet parts and now the Quad again not much is happening with the M7. I did take the opportunity whilst on hols the other week to get one section of track built and with the good weather this weekend fitted the sprocket and idler housings and finally got a coat of Etch primer on the lower hull.

Cheers

Dave





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[Brian Leach]

Dave,

Nice job!

What are the tracks made of, they are really clean

Brian

[Dave Dibb (Armorpax)]

Hi Brian,

Tracks courtesy of Armortek, I think Aluminium but Mark and Gill can probably confirm.

Cheers

Dave
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[Dave Dibb (Armorpax)]

Hi All,

I've hollowed out the exhausts from East Coast Armoury so I can use them with a smoker and added the first rust treatment. I will add this to the M7 one I get the back end done.

Full rust treatment and weathering will be done when I eventually get as far as painting the model.

Cheers

Dave





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