Theme from The Sting - Airfix Scorpion *Finished*

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I was wrong!

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Some spare square rod, and I-beam, made most of the stowage rather easy.

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The ends still need capping off, and some general tidying done.

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Meanwhile the chassis gets filled with lead.

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And I'm making a start on a couple of walls for the base, using foam and offcuts from vacform kits. The main part of the base will be the concrete floor left after a building has been partially demolished.

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AndrewR wrote:
Sir T wrote:Wow - that was a quick build!
It's going to take longer to scratch build the extra stowage!
lol - that's often the way :-D
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Nice work.

Why the lead weight is it a tail sitter? :ha:
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splash wrote:Nice work.

Why the lead weight is it a tail sitter? :ha:
Back in '74 :shock:,when I last made the kit, it would not sit down properly on the rather stiff tracks.
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Crikey, your rocking along with this! I haven't even photographed the boxes for mine yet :shock: :roll:
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Wow, Andrew. Nice looking stowage additions but you'll be done before I get the glue out.

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Wow that's looking superb!

Nice tip on adding weight - I'd have never thought to do that on an armour build but it makes perfect sense actually.
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Oh, yes, weights in tracked vehicles are very useful to cure nose or tail-sitting and get the suspension/tracks to appear to have some weight on them. The nose/tail-sitting isn't drastic, but sometimes shorter-hull/track vehicles will tilt forward from the weight of a long gun-tube - and you should see what I had to put in my Matchbox AVRE SBG's to handle an extended bridge ....
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jRatz wrote:Oh, yes, weights in tracked vehicles are very useful to cure nose or tail-sitting and get the suspension/tracks to appear to have some weight on them. The nose/tail-sitting isn't drastic, but sometimes shorter-hull/track vehicles will tilt forward from the weight of a long gun-tube - and you should see what I had to put in my Matchbox AVRE SBG's to handle an extended bridge ....
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dwomby wrote:Wow, Andrew. Nice looking stowage additions but you'll be done before I get the glue out.

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Looking good Andrew, with all that lead it will virtually weigh as much as the actual vehicle. The ground pressure was reported to be 6Ibs per square inch so in theory it could drive over your foot without causing an injury. A theory that I never put to the test though! ;-)
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Molly-new wrote:Looking good Andrew, with all that lead it will virtually weigh as much as the actual vehicle. The ground pressure was reported to be 6Ibs per square inch so in theory it could drive over your foot without causing an injury. A theory that I never put to the test though! ;-)
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The headlights and stowage rack added, and most of the stowage boxes are now boxed in. The lights are bits of transparent sprue, and the rack is a 1/400 scale photoetch ladder!

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The only thing added to the chassis are the two towing attachments
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The chassis is ready for a coat of primer.
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Everything stuck on, so after these two photos, I primed with panzergrau primer.
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Great looking little beast that!
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