SMA What's New In Your Stash?!?

Ultra liner, cylindrical tweezers, flip up lenses, medium radius pliers, flat brushes, reamer.
Will let you know how these work out...
Bonus, the reamer handle will also accept my burr bits, of which the smaller ones could be useful even without a power rotary tool.

17551383253407015195778100628946.jpg

I'll be putting the reamer to work with one of the three diamond points it came with, cleaning the drilled out barrel of the gun on my WC-55 that's on the bench.
 
Those look like heavy-duty reamers :) A few years ago I bought two sets of ones like this:

bergeon-reibahle-mit-fuenfkant-profil-246-mm-swiss-made.jpg

Pentagonal in cross-section, and I think they go from maybe 0.5 mm to 2 mm or so between the two sets. Not good for fast work, but very good for slightly enlarging openings so that parts actually fit :)
 
Now I had to go and look :)

IMG_2957.jpeg

Both sets have ten reamers, the small ones are too similar to easily pick out the biggest and smallest but they appear to range from about 0.50 mm through 0.75 mm, the large ones go from 0.80 mm through 2.75 mm. (For size, the squares on the cutting mat are 5 cm on a side.) I don't recall what these cost me, but I think it was no more than €20 at most for the two sets, from a tool vendor at a convention two years ago.
 
Actually new in my stash, rather than tools bought some years ago:

IMG_2960.jpeg

The M3A1 will only be about half used, but that will become clear in future — hopefully, the not-too-distant one :) One set of tracks is for that, another is for the Sherman III I'm currently working on, and the third is for some currently undefined future model :)
 
The M3A1 will only be about half used, but that will become clear in future
The muzzle brake looks odd on the 75mm, those were not common were they? Asking someone far more versed in armor.

Building a Lee/Grant would be fun, it was an interesting design.
 
Last edited:
The muzzle brake looks odd on the 75mm, those were not common were they?
It's not a muzzle brake but a counterweight :) It consists of two semi-circular weights that go around the muzzle of the gun, held together with two bolts on each side.

If you see an M3 medium with that, you can be sure it had a 75 mm gun M2 installed as well as a gyroscopic stabilisation system. This is because the stabiliser was designed for the 75 mm gun M3, which was the same as the M2 but had a longer barrel, so without the counterweight, the stabiliser would elevate the gun all the time if it was switched on.

The 37 mm gun in the turret could also have a stabiliser (and normally, if it was provided for one gun, it was for both), which you can recognise by looking for the counterweight under the gun. It looks like a pipe or a small gun barrel immediately below the 37 mm gun — like you can also see in the box art.

Building a Lee/Grant would be fun, it was an interesting design.
Some people think they're really ugly. I kind of like them, even though it was a very clunky design when you get down to it. I mean, whoever thought that putting the driver on top of the transmission, rather than alongside it, would be a good idea? (Answer: the designers of the M2 medium tank, which had a machine gun on every corner of the superstructure, so there was no room for the driver anywhere except in the center. Even then it seems a silly idea, but I guess they also wanted those machine guns high up to give a good field of fire.)
 
Nice surprise.
Several years ago, I had ordered model T spoked wheels from Resicast.

The kit came, resin parts but no PE... along with a hand written note that the PE would follow.

The follow up slipped everyone's mind, until 3 weeks ago, while I was looking ahead to possible builds. I dropped them a note, and the PE arrived today!

17556425358134384453605509346368.jpg
 
That was some wait …

A few years ago, I came across Resicast at a model show (I don't go to many) and wanted to buy a set of British 2-gallon POL cans with manufacturers' logos. Graham (still the owner at the time) told me he couldn't sell them to me because they had forgotten to pack the etched handles with them. When I said those are really easy to make myself, I got a 33% discount :)
 


Write your reply...

Latest posts

Back
Top