Armortek

Gents, thank you for your likes and generous comments. When i do eventually finish the box, there will not be one part of it that hasn't been changed or replaced in one form or another; more work than I expected to have to do I must admit. :roll: John, ET is leaving this week so no need to phone hom...

Sigh of relief on that one John :twisted: Following a special request from JC, time for an exhaust box update :lol: All the main cuts to the basic box have now been made; time to start adding the detail and putting it all together!! I can just hear JC now......about bl**dy time :lol: 40 10BA bolts w...

Mark - i have a FrSky Taranis and when I tested all the electronics on the bench, I don't recall any issues with motors turning on power on apart from if the controls weren't set in the zero'd position. I must admit though, I'm not using the Armortek sound or smoke modules; am using alternatives!

Today's post is all about affixing the tyres to the various wheels. There are 36 wheels in total which have rubber tyres affixed; 24 road wheels and 12 return roller wheels. The method i used to affix the tyres is the same for both wheel types so I'll just show how I did the return rollers. Now befo...

Ok so lets get these pesky idler blocks out the way. In case you've forgotten, here's the assembly diagram again.... DSCF0845.JPG First of all, the two halves were bolted together with the recommended hex heads and filed to remove machine marks and to match the halves together..... matching halves.j...

John.....if it was anything other than a Berlin Camo paint job, I'd agree with you......but this paint job will put a line down the middle at the front which i'm hoping will provide enough emphasis! Fingers crossed

I know that I was due to finish off the idler bolcks but something else caught my eye over the weekend! Having filed my casting lugs down to fit into the lower hull then ground the sides down of the casting to match the hull sides, things were proceeding nicely. A trial fit of the mudguards showed a...

Great effort YoungJae, well done. I would agree with the comment made by Vince about having more comments though; nothing worse when going through code and trying to fathom out why you did it that way! I found that comments almost at every step, would allow me to go to the correct area every time an...

Judging by the pictures in Richard's thread, I would have said 1.6mm. However, he used 1.4mm but used nuts instead of hex heads. Adrian. A little late replying to this; I found that the costs associated with hex heads was extortionate to say the least and it was far cheaper to do a little work and ...

I went to purchase the above paints online and it appears that 71.253 is no longer available! A quick recalculation and we have an alternative.... which is available! The delta has increased but only to 0.4

Nice to have you onboard Andy.

Try opening it up in Paint and see what it looks like; you can rotate it in that app if needs be as well as resize it to reduce its overall size. I normally reduce mine down to 25% of the original and that brings the picture down from Mbits to kBits.

So after reading the excellent knowledge base article written by Stephen White, I decided to experiment and do my own mixing with the iModelKit App. Apart from the full white, Stephen has kindly identified the other Urban Camo colours as BS499 (Service Brown) and BS632 (Dark Admiralty Grey) from the...

Nice layout Mark; everything nice and accessible!

All you've proved is that photos and printed sources are not reliable guides to colour.. Spot on Stephen which was what I was trying to demonstrate; admittedly, the last sentence was a little tongue in cheek :D The only things you can use on the pictures are the details and the positioning of the v...

I know I was going to be doing the idler blocks but decided to deviate to look at colours and in particular, urban camo colours of the Berlin Brigade. There are plenty of pics out showing Chieftains dressed in there urban camo; the problem is, can you use pictures to determine what colours you shoul...