Sherman
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Edbert
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I've got the RFM M4-E8 in my stash, still able to resist getting started, for now.
Definitely gonna be watching this build. Please keep us updated Rob!
All right I'm back. Been busy with Father's Day and 36 year anniversary. Holy poop, I'm not young anymore. Okay just working on it slow mainly because I don't know what the heck I'm doing. And I want to get it right. Give me an airplane kit with no instructions and I'll get it built. But I've only Built one tank before this and it wasn't with an interior. So right now I'm going through the interior panels and sanding down raised sink marks and filling in the indented ones with super glue thick. I usually use basic putty but I saw something on YouTube where he used super glue and sanded it down so I think I'll try that. Also I think the seam in the back end? I think if I roll out some two-part epoxy super thin I could make a respectable looking weld joint? So I'll get all the sink marks worked out and use some thinset and a brush and get some texture on the walls and go from there.
That's just a white basic putty with thinset applied with an old paintbrush I usually use for dry brushing
Thx. Night shift? Maybe. I don't pay attention to who is making a video. I look at one thing before I watch. How many people watched it? If it's been out a year and only 30 people watched it? I'm not going to bother. And once I start watching it I better be able to understand you. There's one dork building a model on YouTube that I couldn't watch. Now I know there's paints out there that shouldn't harm you but why the hell does he have to spray paint all over his hands like he doesn't care? It's ridiculous one thing. The other thing it's totally a put-off to watch. It's like watching a guy build a model with a booger hanging off his finger
Little bit further along. I know I'm not the fastest Builder but working with these tiny pieces is painstakingly tiresome but very rewarding once everything Clicks in. Like trying to get the driver's controls for the tank installed today. Wow what a chore. You'll notice you can't use any glue and trying to get that to stay together just wasn't working. So I took part 14 and glued it down. Then I used some bow and arrow string lubricant which is like beeswax kind of and use that to have everything stick together while I glue on part 15. That didn't work. Frustrating working with the small pieces but you just say break time and come back with a better idea. Which was to glue part 15 in and let it halfway set up so that you can kind of bend it out but it's still sticking in the slot. That way you can hold the two parts together and slide them in and a tweezer pushes part 15 over and locks everything in. Phew. Break time
