Thank 'ya sprue, looks like I made all the !http://www.animated-smileys.com/emoticons/animated-smileys-dancing-006.gifright moves there.
Gonn’a look killer !http://www.beautifulforums.co/uploads/emoticons/default_clown.gifon those track hangers.
Sorry for the late reply, !http://www.4smileys.com/smileys/dance-smileys/dancing-smiley01.gifbeen busy.
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Your attention to detail is outstanding
She’s coming out real nice. Just wanted to ask out that the road wheels. On the Porsche series I know that they were rubber rimmed, I have seen and touched the ones on the APG elephant and they are very thin rubber that is secured by being sandwiched in place by the preforated faceplate that is bolted to the wheel hub. I see lots of people on the net painting them as steel, was there a steel variant of this wheel developed?
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Sorry I got back to you so late but I’ve been about town today…
went to the gym !http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/gym/dumbbell-lifting-smiley-emoticon.gifand out for a bite. A bit of conversation with friends 
… and later tonight, off to our local 
model meeting.
I still need to do a bit of work on this project before bedtime.
Stay focused here 'cause there’s !http://www.backfixbodywork.com/j0336911.giflots more to come.
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__Mr. TOJO…!http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/thanks/animated-thank-you-smiley-emoticon.gifYour appreciation for the finer details of armor are welcome here.
I know you’ll just love where all this is eventually headed…
!http://wright-here.net/images/forum%20stuff/smiley-missile%20ride.gifYeeee Hawwww
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Armorguy !
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Well, I couldn’t sleep!https://smileyshack.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/sbed_candleinbed_100-100.gif so I thought I’d stay up a while & put some information
together for this morning’s perusal.
Glad to know that such a highly skilled and talented forum member appreciates what I’m working on.
Thank you for your observations.
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When you post something, I’m always amazed.
Your projects make me think my bulging
eyes need bra support.
I’ve got a vision!http://www.moontripgraphics.com/dancing-smiley.giffor this project and a !http://orig10.deviantart.net/2b4c/f/2007/060/d/9/writing_emoticon_by_eburt.gifstory line to make it kind’a interesting before I eventually bring it to a
conclusion.
!https://i1.wp.com/emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/desert-smiley.gif
!http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/eightball8f.gifBut that’s a long ways 
off yet.
There’ll be some stuff here to go along with this tank build that you wouldn’t expect to show up …!https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1tauM8z2p3SkQmP0ILfClpR5C2yyG3ttK_I-FAVQKtGjwWXEz
Hope’ya enjoy it.
So,*!http://eaaforums.org/images/smilies/smiley.gif*in regards to your question "was there a steel variant of this wheel?"
Take a big breath !http://www.animaatjes.de/smileys/smileys-und-emoticons/tauchen/smileys-tauchen-668745.gif
We’re gonn’a go deep !http://s19.rimg.info/baf6b8565b957054481310ccc32d3a4c.gif
!http://www.city-data.com/forum/members/jill61-603505-albums-emoticons-pic59494-rubbing-hands-smiley.gifWell*, here’s some old dirt I’d dug up…*
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!http://smileys.newbeginningsnetwork.com/piwigo/galleries/WORK_AND_STUDY/occupation/digger-smiley-emoticon.gif.........glad to be able to share here and help out.
First, the obvious history!http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/artists/vishenka/l_happy_tired.gif
The Elefant was a German!http://files-cloud.enjin.com/smiley/41206_Smile_harp.gif?0tank hunter originally built as the “Ferdinand” in honor of its designer, Ferdinand Porsche. The design evolved from cruder, improvised designs of 1941-42, as well as the later (but problem-ridden) Marder designs. Porsche created the chassis from the 90 Porsche
Tiger I models already built complete with new tracks and an all-steel wheel arrangement.
The following starts on page four at (!http://files-cloud.enjin.com/smiley/52936_52936_dntknw.gif?0 I never know if the direct linking will work properly on this forum like it used to, so you’ll probably have to copy and paste it):
www.scribd.com/doc/226704523/Ferdinand-Elefant-1-pdf
The Porsche entry for the VK4501 was called Type 101 or SonderfahrzeugII a
Hey everyone!
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A very minor 5 o’clock !http://www.titantv.com/themes/_default/images/flatIcons/clock_icon.pngupdate.
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Here’s the jack block I modified from the part from the kit… added a few bits here’n there.
After a bit of choppin’ …!http://board.en.nostale.gameforge.com/wcf/images/smilies/lol.gif
And a lott’a of fancy knifework.
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A bit of metal work…
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got me some nice used results
!http://forum.muscleandstrength.com/images/smilies/smile/muscleti5.gif
!http://www.f-106deltadart.com/smilies/hammer-nail.gifBut I still gott’a hammer in some nails.
Everything seen above and below was finished with acrylic paint and artist oils.
But, before I put my tools up.
Made the hollow notek light tube out of the piece of plastic
used to protect new paint brushes. Made it the same way
you stretch sprue.
After !http://www.freesmileyfaces.com/files/emotions/teasing-smiley-faces/32.gifstretching, I chopped the center section out to size
I then coated a piece of wire with paint color and slid it through the tube a few times.
Works !http://www.lesmenottesdetica.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/smiley.giffor me…
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DM, great couple of posts there. The info about the road wheels is great, really nice stuff. I was reading it and remembere going to Bovington tank museum some years ago and seeing the Tiger II which had a disected road wheel next to it. I managed to find an image online and you can see the rubber inside.
And i live the finish on the tools, some stunning work. I have used clear sprue before for the light, but not though of useing one of those. Might try that on the E-100
Great posts, thank you.
Yeah, the tools look great and clever idea on the notek light.
!http://yoursmiles.org/csmile/goodbye/c0203.gifThanks for putting that one up Bish… I’d seen it long ago and didn’t add it to my picture inventory.
I’ll surely hang on to
that one this time!
I can certainly see how the term “rubber-rimmed” could confuse people and lead them to believe that rubber-rimmed would refer to the actual contact area of the track/wheel surfaces… where else would one logically think it would be?
That dissected road wheel is just the thing to clear up the mistaken placement of the “rubber ring bushings” or “inner rubber ring” on the steel road wheels used on German heavy tanks.
Also, thanks for your appreciation of my efforts Bish.
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Holy Cow!!! What detail!!! Amazing work Disaster!!!
No problem DM. I think i did take a pic of that wheel myself the first time i went. But i have lost all my pics since then, real downer. I need to try and get back there at some point.
I can’t say i have ever heard those wheels reffere to as rubber rimmed, but i can see how it can cause confusion.
Thanks Gamera,
Everything I do here is “old school” using creative !http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/lol/lol-laugh-smiley.gifthinking, instead of buying into all that “done it for you” stuff that only gets you the same results.
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Well feldgrau… !https://www.allmystery.de/i/tc44608_tv96ju3lta9.gifThank you!
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More like Holy Snail at my present rate of progress.
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Something new coming up soon.
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OK folks, here’s where the hull presently sits
(heh, heh …it “wuz” sittin’ on my desk)
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Couldn’t help it.
!http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/blook.gifAfter some thought on the subject, (considering the shortage of paint stocks near the end of the war) I decided to go with a worn and faded panzer 
grey, but it’s going to be an interesting grey.
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There’s still some more refinement and details needed in the painting and features department.
Gott’a work on that flippin’ intake screen and re-attach a handle that popped off.
Overhead view without the fenders…
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Still have to correct the drivers vision port (should’a done that earlier) and tone down those shell dings…
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Hang on. This is gonn’a be a ruff lookin’ ride.!http://www.millan.net/anims/gifs/heppisurfer.gif
A bit more weathering ahead.!http://crosstowntorrents.org/images/smilies/th_panic.gif!http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XOkBBu7CZuA/U3UiGruTAuI/AAAAAAAAAkI/h0o7HMCsUx4/s1600/SmileyHur.gif
This fits over the exhaust above 
(that taped up area) in front of the rear track hangers.
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Remember that sanded pie pan frame?
Lookee !https://www.informaticien.be/images/smileys/dawahello555.gif
After a bit more modification and a bit of creative !http://www.smileygenerator.us/smileys/generators/spraysig/images/index/endstyles/bl1.gifpainting…
I got me a roughly used exhaust/grenade screen…
ta DAAAAAAA…
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Well, that’s it for today.
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Wow DM, I can just feel the cold hard steel.
Your attention to detail is outstanding,takes a lot of patience to achieve that level of weathering.
Love that beautiful worn rusted look. I’ve got to try for something like that someday…
Kudos sir!
Lovely work DM. Thats a great looking texture and really nice attention to detail.
Modelcrazy,
Just wait 'til the next update.
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