Construction (Winch Tower & final tractor pre paint details)
Sections 23 to 28 now all cover the winch tower assembly. This starts with the vertical exhaust stack & its etched heat shield. Mounted on the back of the stack bracket is the davit winch for raising & lowering the spare wheel (9 parts). Twin left & right handed main winch assemblies are next with 19 parts each including some fairly fine etch-work. Here I found the first real glitch in the kit instructions as it refers to the winch cables just as “1mm x 140mm”. Given that there are several lengths of different cord supplied with the kit, all of different diameters, colours & lengths, & despite using the process of elimination, nothing really seemed to match the required cord. In the end I used some suitable cord from stock & found that the stated length of 140mm was way too short anyway…it takes more like 340mm per winch to make the drums look anywhere near loaded.
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- Sunday 29 November 2015
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