scratch building

[Dog Smack]

pibber,

Great to see you posting again. Your stuff is very inspirational. looking forward to see more!

pibber and BurtWolf - how do you guys attach the trailers to the prime mover? Love to hear how you all do that.

Steve

[pibber]

Thanks guys for yours comments about my stuff .

To Dog Smack :
I use very thin iron wire and brass wire a little thicker.
The iron wire is used for the ring on the trailer while the brass wire is used to make the hook on the tractor (brass wire is harder than thin iron wire).

Few examples (photos taken quickly ) :
first example, hooks on two US M3 halfrack (work in progress...):


on the second picture you can see better the iron wire glue in front of the trailer to replace the original GHQ ring part.


The same principe on this sdkfz 10 and Sig 15cm : the brass wire is glue (with cyanocrylate) at the rear of the vehicule (or undercarriage) and the thin iron brass is glue (with cyanocrylate too) on the trailer (or gun).




Sometime, I preserve the original pewter ring : I make a very small hole throught the ring with a very small drill.
See the example on this german Flak38 trailer :


...and it works !


Could be great on sdkfz 251 C & D
On the "ausf. C" with the 12cm Mortar, the brass wire was glue in a hole* (*I make it with a small drill) at the rear of the vehicule.


On the "ausf. D" (with the Pak 40) the brass wire was glue under the vehicule with a generous coat of cyanocrylate.


Look great ! and it's very easy to remove the trailer or hitch it. (and very easy to move the vehicule on a wargaming landscape : take the tractor and let the trailer slip behind gently on the ground)


Look great with Mac NO too :


You can see the very small hole on my Luftwaffe trailer to hitch a brass wire hook.


I hope it could help you.

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[chrisswim]

Pibber,
Amazing work, great that you elevated the gaming process with trailers and movers/tractors. I do also appreciate the time & effort you put in for the personal storage bags. Look great.
Impressive presentation of your forces at work/at war.
Burtwolf,
Great trailer you created, wonderful.
Thank you for sharing.
Chris
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Chris

[BurtWolf]

Looks fantastic Pibber! What did you use for the ropes to tie down the crates to the artillery? And how did you make that effect? I plan on adding crates and what not to my towed artillery - imitation being the sincerest form of flattery!!

[Hoth_902]

Pibber,

OMG, that is brilliant. Something so simple works so well. As the kids say these days.. An awesome Hack. I will have to give some serious thought to doing something similar.

Thanks for sharing your mod.
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[pibber]

(thank you guys for your kind comments )

BurtWolf :
I use very thin iron wire for the ropes to tie down the crates to the artillery. They are glued with cyanocrylate and fix with the help of a small precision clamp.
The ammo boxes and iron wire are painted together, then, iron wires are painted at last.

No problem for imitation, it's also in this way that I learned a lot of things in models or figurines making.

I love so much your engineer trailers, I need few of this model and boat trailers too.
I hope that GHQ will not be too late to produce them someday because time passes...
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[CBoy3]

Pibber, great work as usual! You always choose interesting prototypes, and execute your conversions and scratch builds really well. You are an inspiration to many! Please keep posting!

[chrisswim]

If you have scratch built items post pictures here.
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[7.62]

The long awaited S-300 support kit I needed.



Radars and command.








Added to the missiles



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[panzergator]

Pibber, 7.62,

Good eyes, good fingers. Talent and skill. Very nice work.
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[redleg]

Those look awesome!
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