Armour Dreams

[Jonathan Moore]

Flat pack panzer 2 upper hull and blanks for the suspension arms.

Jon

[colin jones]

John, excellent job you're doing and great fabrication work. Have you decided on a drive train yet and what type of tracks are you going to use.

[Jonathan Moore]

Evening all,

I have been very busy, the upper hull is complete, painted and waiting for me to make all the fittings. The drivers vision cover is complete. The turret has been painted and the markings applied and now I just need to assemble all the fittings into it. I decided that while I am making other bits it would be nice to have a stand so that I can sit the turret on top of the upper hull and as you can see that's done but I am going to add some casters so that I can move it around easily.

Jon

[Jonathan Moore]

Some more pictures

[Jonathan Moore]

And lastly for now.

Jon

[Jonathan Moore]

I have been beavering away as usual and to tell the truth the turret ring took longer than anticipated but now I have a turret that rotates. I spent this weekend assembling the turret on to the upper hull and fitting all the various components. There are still a few details to finish but on the whole I am quite happy with it and excited to be starting the running gear and lower hull, oh goody.



Jon

[Jonathan Moore]

A few more.

[Jonathan Moore]

There doesn't really seem much to show you because I have been fabricating and machining lots of components ready to install into the hull. It all takes loads of time for what seems very little result. Firstly sorry for the quality of the pictures the light wasn't very good tonight. As you can see from the pictures ,the main hull has been welded together and over the next week I will attempt to weld the various components in place. I hope by tomorrow night to have rolled the front of the hull but its a major job with my very limited equipment so it may take more than one attempt but we will see.

The 3rd and 4th pictures are the inner and outer bearing houses for retaining the radius arms into the hull side and the plates with the holes in are strengthening ribs. First job tomorrow, before rolling the front, is to get the 4 front housings in place and accurately in line. Not an easy job by hand, these housings would have been machined on a special machine so that everything lined up perfectly but I don't have such a machine so fingers crossed.


Jon

[kevin powles]

Looks suberb, well done.

[James P]

Really amazing fabrication skills there in your build. Why the Dunkelgelb for the interior Vs White ??

[Jonathan Moore]

I am glad that it meets with your approval, its good to hear peoples comments and suggestions they all go into the computer.

Its not actually Dunkelgelb its the correct RAL colour, RAL 1001 Ivory for the interior of German tanks. I assume that white got dirty too quickly and maybe it reflected any interior light too much but I don't actually know for sure.

Jon

[David Dunlop]

Jon,

Nice work.

I recall reading somewhere that German Armour was often two toned inside. The ivory colour you are using being applied to the upper portion of the interior, but the lower hull area sometimes left in red primer. Have you ever run across this?

David