Here we have my trials and tribulations with the krios jerk tank, I mean battle tank. Behold its myriad of pieces.
There
wasn't much flash to cleanup or problems with removing the gateing.
There was two large areas of imperfections in the molding. Nothing
catastrophic but annoying, and some consumption of time required. The
guns barrel you can see had some over flow, and the tracks were slightly
off set down the length of them. The end of the barrel is not that bad
as the gun has an additional piece which will cover it up, but I still
felt some cleaning would improve it.
Now this wheel looked like it was going to be a problem cleaning. It wasn't the flash easily came off with just picking at it.
Here we see the tracks and the internal machinery. As well as how the external gear attaches.
The
cannon is complete. I had to assemble the operator first then attach
the large gears. You can see here the genius engineering I have
concocted to help them stay in place while drying.
The internal under body, wish the whole model had been this easy.
Here's
where the kit started give me problems. At first I was all like "this
so easy, they just slide here." Nope, off in the top you can see the
shield which covers the front, and attacts to these rails. Well they may
look right, but the right piece was too low. It required a lot of
playing around, and cutting during assembly.
Final dry fit with all the pieces.
The
gun is made to have a large arc of motion up if desired. I wanted it
just shooting good old straight ahead. So I took some spree cut it and
placed pieces in the center to keep this position.
Here we see the finished model, and a close up on the driver.
Here
we see the basing going on the finished army. The belt feed on this
second thanatar was much easier then the first. Defiantly must pin the
the two parts together, then when heated will allow easy range of motion
and attachment.
Here
is the finished army. I will have to show in the future how I got the
vorax belt feeds to go on. They started straight and had the end up bent
180'. Now their all ready to be shipped off to be painted.
