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In the end, refitting the track was not too difficult. I scraped away most of the gunk and simply threaded the tracks back through. It seems to have held, wedged between the drive teeth and mud-guard. No glue was used :ha:
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The three Italian vehicles are now complete and in their galleries ;-)
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I've just had a butchers in the armour section and they look great. I'm glad the Carro was an easy fix!
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Cheers Shaun :grin:
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Your projects always bring good memories and just sheer pleasure of looking at interesting subjects. These are no exceptions.
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That's most kind of you :grin:
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Progress on the Katana
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Nice one and certainly something different :grin: The way the girl is posed on the bike reminds me of those glitzy motor industry launches where they present the latest car or motorcycle and drape some young lady/ladies all over it for the photo shoot.
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In that case it's working :ha: :twisted:
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Nearly finished...
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A great looking combination!
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Looks like her zip is broken......

Nice work!
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Back in 2013 I was given these two Vulcans that had been started.
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This one has had dramatic wing-surgery, back-dating it to a B.I

This one seems to be an OOB B.2
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The undercarriage doors are shut, so in-flight it will be

Both have parts missing - I've managed to scrounge some bits and raided my spares box for others
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Let's see where these go
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Interesting stuff Ratch - the previous owner must have badly wanted a Vulcan B.1 as it has required major reshaping of the leading edges but should there still be a kink towards the outer end? I thought the early Vulcan had pretty much dead straight leading edges. I stand to be corrected of course :ha:
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The prototype had dead straight leading edges with chopped tip, then the kinky one for the B1 and the much kinkier for the B2. I found a good overlay picture showing the three types :twisted:
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Didn't know Vulcans were so kinky. I will never watch an episode of Star Trek the same way again.
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