The 1/35 kit has presented me with a poser. Which barrel to use?
Presumably the advantage of the metal barrel is that I don’t need to worry about seams and such from the two-part plastic. However, the metal barrel is, for the lack of a better term, ‘ribbed’. Is this accurate? If not, is there any reasonable way of removing the ribbing without needing to resort to so much work that I may as well just go through the work required of the plastic tube anyway?
NTM
The ribbing you are refering to might be the “rifling” inside the barrel which in this case you would not want to remove it as this helps the trajectory of the shell. JWest21 or tigerman…Do you guys have a better answer?
TH
tankergeoff,
Does this barrel have rifling?
OK I think I know what Manic Moran is talking about. The ribbing is in the muzzle area. Check out this web page.
TH
http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=WWPPVL11
Yes, PanzerHowitzer2000 does have rifling. It is a standard 155mm artillery tube that fires standard NATO 155mm projectiles that require a rifled barrel to spin the round and stabilize it in flight.
As to the ribbing, you may be seeing it on the muzzle brake as stated above. The barrel in mine was fine, no problems at all.
Odd. No, I wasn’t referring to the rifling or the muzzle brake. The ‘ribbing’ I refer to is concentric down the entire exterior length of the barrel, each ring being about an eighth of a millimeter thick and high, there numbering several hundered in all. Basically it results in anything but a smooth polished surface. Perhaps it was just done to help the paint stick, but I think it’ll still show through the airbrush paint layer. I probably just need to take a close-up photo of it on the principle of a picture being worth a thousand words.
NTM
From your description it sounds like a badly machined part.