Quote from: loupgarou on April 15, 2025, 01:07:11 PM

Quote from: Wardukw on April 15, 2025, 01:04:26 PMI use those disposable medical gloves for that Fred ...not like I've done that in a while now tho.
That might be changing tho if I build more armour .

I use medical gloves when I use an airbrush, but those single-use gloves are no good anymore. After 20 or 30 uses, they start to break..

Then your not being careful enough 🙃 😁😁
I get the 100 pairs box..cheap as even for here 
Mechanics disposable gloves tho have gone mental with the price   

Quote from: Wardukw on April 15, 2025, 01:10:32 PM

Quote from: loupgarou on April 15, 2025, 01:07:11 PM

Quote from: Wardukw on April 15, 2025, 01:04:26 PMI use those disposable medical gloves for that Fred ...not like I've done that in a while now tho.
That might be changing tho if I build more armour .

I use medical gloves when I use an airbrush, but those single-use gloves are no good anymore. After 20 or 30 uses, they start to break..

Then your not being careful enough 🙃 😁😁
I get the 100 pairs box..cheap as even for here 
Mechanics disposable gloves tho have gone mental with the price   

Of course I too buy 100 pairs boxes, but try to have them last as long as possible, and more... 
Didn't even know that mechanics used gloves, the new generations are gone soft.

Quote from: loupgarou on April 15, 2025, 01:15:43 PM

Quote from: Wardukw on April 15, 2025, 01:10:32 PM

Quote from: loupgarou on April 15, 2025, 01:07:11 PM

Quote from: Wardukw on April 15, 2025, 01:04:26 PMI use those disposable medical gloves for that Fred ...not like I've done that in a while now tho.
That might be changing tho if I build more armour .

I use medical gloves when I use an airbrush, but those single-use gloves are no good anymore. After 20 or 30 uses, they start to break..

Then your not being careful enough 🙃 😁😁
I get the 100 pairs box..cheap as even for here 
Mechanics disposable gloves tho have gone mental with the price   

Of course I too buy 100 pairs boxes, but try to have them last as long as possible, and more... 
Didn't even know that mechanics used gloves, the new generations are gone soft.

Well I never thought ya wouldn't..it's only common sense after all   
And yep we do ....they are much thicker than the medical gloves and are resistant to oil..petrol and so on ...also they save ya hands from being cut to pieces working on modern cars which are so damn tight space wise and Japanese cars have these spring clips which have pretty sharp edges ...they can make a real mess..this I know first hand..well both hands 

I'm now working on the other side of the tracks (sic).

 

Behind You!!!
Hedge Trimmer WIP 25-04-17 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Crazy cool!

Bloody lucky those guns don't all fire at once or that'll end up on its side 😆 😂 🤣

Love it Fred 😀 

Quote from: Wardukw on Yesterday at 12:28:25 PMBloody lucky those guns don't all fire at once or that'll end up on its side 😆 😂 🤣

Love it Fred 😀 

It looks "a little bit" top-heavy indeed.     A really bad bad idea.
IIRC, you had the option of firing 2 barrels at the same time instead of 4.

Brilliantly absurd.

Nice work on the suspension adjustment, that goes a long way to making the build work.

That Rotodyne in the background looks like it's on super long landing gear ready to hoist some serious cargo pods.

Quote from: loupgarou on Yesterday at 01:20:31 PM

Quote from: Wardukw on Yesterday at 12:28:25 PMBloody lucky those guns don't all fire at once or that'll end up on its side 😆 😂 🤣

Love it Fred 😀 

It looks "a little bit" top-heavy indeed.     A really bad bad idea.
IIRC, you had the option of firing 2 barrels at the same time instead of 4.

Yeah watching these firing you see that the firing order is like top right then lower left then top left and lower right ✅️
Even tho it'd been super cool to see all four fire at the same time 

Quote from: Wardukw on Yesterday at 09:57:57 PMEven tho it'd been super cool to see all four fire at the same time 

And then the whole shebang would tip over backwards! 

Originally set lower, Hobart's engineers lifted the gun mount so as to allow the Hedge Trimmer to fire over obstacles...

Fiddley bits today and then I went to glue on the tracks...

These are resin items by Resicast.  Each track assembles from a number of sections.  I followed the destructions, connecting the specified number of sections and I then painted and weathered them.  I should probably have test fitted them to check they were long enough before painting them but I trusted the aftermarket manufacturer would know what they were doing (and I hadn't attached the wheels anyway).
 
Lucky Resicast give you spare sections.
I have one track attached and will fill the gap with a piece of the spares which I will then attempt to paint and weather to blend into the rest.
And it was all going so well.

Plan z is to use Tamiya's vinyl tracks.  But only if I absolutely have to as I really hate them.

Quote from: zenrat on Today at 04:58:35 AMPlan z is to use Tamiya's vinyl tracks.  But only if I absolutely have to as I really hate them.

I used to hate the old Airfix "rubber" tracks. When I built the Sherman as a nipper I got my mum to sew them together for me as no known glue in the then known universe would work. Or none I was allowed access to anyway