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Old 23-09-16, 21:15
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Terry Warner
 
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Originally Posted by Jon Bradshaw View Post
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The pic Hanno put up of the view port is my next big hurdle. I need to make those from scratch, unless someone has a spare they might part with? Once I have one I can copy them, fairly closely.... Otherwise I will just use the pic and make something similar looking. Much as I have done thus far.

Thanks for the encouragement.
There is a shop in central US that has made a replica Panzer III, initially with five roadwheels then they replaced them with six roadwheels. I saw their work on a FaceBook group, Panzer Fabrik or something close.

Their techniques for fabricating realistic looking thick armour are worth copying. As I recall, the plate is 1/4" mild steel and the visible edge of the supposedly thick plate is 1/4" bar stock welded one on top of another, and ground smooth. Their keystone finger joints on the frontal armour of the Panzer are very convincing.
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