Possible idea. repair the hull by replacing with new sheet stock and then cut a smaller piece to represent a repair from a med. sized round . The zim would have flaked off from the initial hit so the area around the repair would be somewhat clean. Edging on the patch could be roughed up to appear flame cut from another less luckly tank and prominet weld lines added then blend in the zim to reduce the area and tie it all back together. have a crewman with a spray gun putting on the new camo. just a thought .
Hey ya’ll.
All good ideas for fixing or repairing it.
Claymore… there was only one person there that smokes (My best friend) I really don’t think he’d do anything like that… This was a church group that was over so I don’t suspect anything…
I have started on the solution and am feeling good about it. Lets just say I wore out my razor saw last night…
PS about the wash. It was a tupentine wash. Apparently the tupentine had gone bad or something because it wouldn’t dry… I ended up using regular paint thinner applied on top of that to dry it up… I got the turpentine at Hobby Lobby btw
Kenneth,
I think when stuff like this happens - you don’t know if you’re ticked off because it happenend or you’re ticked off because you did something do to make it happen.
You can rebuild it. You have the technology.
LoL!
Good luck with the fixing. It really is a beautiful piece of work. And the damaged spot is so small I had to look twice to even notice it.
M.
Build22, LOL!! ha ha… I just turned my speakers up and got the joke… he he he
MarianLH, Actually the damage was quite extensive. The engine deck was distorted most of the way across it. and the left rear quarter of the hull top was caved in.
Whoa, regular paint thinner? What type?
Many years ago, when I was wee pre-teen lad, I ran out of turps when building a kit. I used some of dad’s thinners to wash out my brushes and left the thinner in an old plastic cup I always used. When I came back to do some more painting a few hours later, I discovered the cup had disolved into the table top I had left it on. Thinner and plastic are MORTAL ENEMIES, and like the proverb ‘East is East and West is West; never the twain should meet’
It appears elementary my dear Mr Watson, it was none other than Kenneth himself!
Peter. It was just plain ol’ wal-mart thinner. I have used it thousands of times on plastic for washes. That wasn’t it. I really think it was the lamp because last night i was examaining it thinking it couldn’t get that hot. Well after I burned my hand after a few sec under it at a few inches I figured I had my culprit. Won’t make that mistake again!!!
Good news though. Reconstruction has begun and is well under way. I will get pics up of the repair as soon as I get access to a camera.
Kenneth how did you get those nice faded lines on your camo ? It looks great ! Thinned out green with a few filter coats perhaps ?
Shawn,
I just thinned down the paint a lot and built it up slowly. It took about 2 hours to put the green lines on. I was actually doing a filter when this all happened. So no there are not any applied in the picture.
I am happy to report that the surgery is going well and all but a few parts are repaired. I just have to cut a new hatch hole, replace the skirt armor brackets and mount the small tools back on the new engine deck. I stripped all the zimmerit off the upper hull last night (I should say SANDED it all off) in preperation for re-doing it. I think I am gonna give the mili-put a try this time. I will try and get some pics up before I begin repainting it to show a before and after. All the angled plates on the upper rear superstructure were rebuilt from styrene and a Tamiya donor Wirblewind gave up its rear deck and fenders.
Congrats - Kennethc !
I hope your tank’s HMO will cover that type of surgery