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Hi Manfred, Glad you are back and well, definitely the trip of the lifetime and all went well. Ease yourself back and await the forthcoming pictures. Kind Regards Al

Hi Manfred, The Trip of a lifetime coming up, certainly on top my bucket list to visit. Hope all goes well and of course, some pictures please during the visit. Kind Regards Al

Hi Manfred, It has been very busy and some fluid situations! I have just arrived back from Las Vegas, Nevada for my Daughter's wedding and then by the end of August I will have retired. This then should allow me time then to get the Crawler completed. Hope all is well with you, All the Best. Al

Hi Everyone, Just a quick update for today, I have the early start of the Crawler cable tray which goes all around the lower part of the crawler. So the initial design was from the paper kit, I am scratch building this with styrene and other materials Crawler Cable Tray The diagram shows the location points of the brackets that span the undertray to the Crawler underside. Next was to cut the profile matching the design, the joins are behind each corner in between the steering arms This is the ch

Hi Manfred, I have ordered the 60 mesh and await the delivery. The 120 mesh was 0.1 hole size which based on scale matched the 0.9 hole size of 1:144. The paint was the thing. The 60 mesh will deliver the correct "image" after painting. As always appreciate the help and advice. Cheers, Al

Thanks Mike for the compliment. I am in full time employment so at the moment no spare time, hence the time delay. I have on order the correct size mesh for the walkway. Whilst the wait, I will post shortly the initial design and styrene cable tray that goes around the parameter of the lower Crawler. All the best Al

Hi Everyone, It has been a while, April has been a busy month and continues to be also. So a brief intro into the start of the scratch build walkways. I did not like the look of the paper version of the walkways and steps and so have opted for a scratch build styrene version. The initial stage described below. Supplementary Idea : Scratch built Walkways and Stairs – Balsa Wood Build fixture The build sequence of the Walkways, using Corner C as the prototype example. The Templates can be used for both sides, for example once the fixture is complet

Hi Everyone, So the next step is the exhausts, had a bit of a dilemma with these. Not good to make and fold. So the following steps shows the work round. The original kit mufflers (exhausts), all the same size and not good regarding the pipes! In reality, there are two small exhausts and two large on the Apollo Era Crawler. These are replicated in the design of Mischa Klement, two small exhausts and two large. These are shaped from Balsa wood from using the David Maier exhaust end profile. Once done the exhaust lengths were th

Thanks Kirk.

Hi Everyone, A little short post today, the reworked Top Cover plate is shown in the picture below (Now 3.0 mm beams instead of the original 4.0mm). It shows the old saying measure twice, cut once! This is also the case for the prototype walkway, incorrect scale. New material on order... Sub Chassis Steering Arms Install The Sub Chassis steering arms were selected, cut out, scored, folded and glued. Once dry, the arms were installed using Scotch quick dry adhesive. There is a notation in the instructions to bias these inboard away from the

That is a very good back up plan, I will do thus in future. Thanks for the tip.

Oh Dear.....Just posted and just had a Sever Error, that was a lot of work gone! So just the first step now... Supplementary Idea : Top Plate (Design by Mischa Klement) Research into the actual Crawler Top Cover configuration revealed a cross beam structure. The structure was then scaled down to 1/144 scale, the lines running from front to back were the marked and scored. The side to side beams were then marked out, the end strips at 1.5mm. The rest of the filler beams worked out at 4.0mm NOT ( I had calculated at 114 scale, not the 1/144 scale I needed, so the actual

Hi Manfred, When I did the Airfix 1/144 Scale Saturn V, I looked around. The ML/LUT was the obvious choice and the Educraft Diversions seemed challenging and based on the pictures pretty good. So the Saturn V on the ML / LUT would be a good enhancement and in your words Coool... Whilst ordering this, I did notice there was a Crawler Transporter available. Well...Must Have!! These arrived together and I have never put anything together like this before. So The ML/LUT is 18 A3 Sheets and the Crawler Transporter is 10 sheets. So the Crawler was the first up as there is les

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Next Up - Tractor Inboard Steering Arms Larger prototype used for folding technique, after the tractor units these are a refreshing change. As before, cut out required shape, score on reverse (an empty biro was used for this which is still going with ink!). The edges are covered - coloured. Then fold into shape, these did not require balsa wood substrate. Set with steering arm installed. All sets with the steering arms installed All sets with the steering arms installed in the relative positions