Pak40 1:16 DrafModel

Hello guys!
Time to start a new model!
I will build the Pak40 7,5cm cannon that will go into the diorama with the Kübel and the Greif.

So here it goes....
The book was a pleasant surprise
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It contains very good instructions in 3d drawings
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And the parts are printed very very nice, not weathered but nice anyway.
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I also got the lasercuts.....4 pages od parts
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So in pure exitement over this kit I had to take it with me at work yesterday and start the build
I started with the wheels....and here I got shocked....each wheel contains more than 90 parts!!
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The letters on the sides are separately cutted from 0,2mm paper, and was a bit challenging.
I will post the full building process of the wheels later!!

LOL I dont work at a nuclear plant
I work around the clock as an electrical engineer, and if nothing goes wrong with the production or equipment....I have nothing much to do.
I work on the biggest zink factory in scandinavia.
Happily I work always alone, have my own office with puters,TV,video,dvd,restchair,microvawe,coffemachine etc etc....
And on many of my shifts I have a lot of "free" time, specially at nights and weekends, and at those times I can build
I'm also my own boss....so I don't have someone watching what I do or not
As long as I keep the factory running on my shifts, everyone is happy.
And of course the less I have to do, the better the factory runs...

Thanks for the pics Serge!! I went through your site and you are a busy photographer very interesting photos!!

Some further progress on the wheel....the wheel is mostly finished, just some minor touchups and painting of the rear side.

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Here comes the construction report of one of the wheels on the Pak.

First it's a shot of all the parts involved on this wheel. And the drawing of the parts involved.
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I start to put together the two rings that will be the outside of the wheel.After they are glued together I put on the paperstrip.And with this repeated once I have the two sides ready to be painted on the inside..
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The two rings have gotten the smaller one glued to make the spacing in the wheel.The centerpart is made of two rings and a paperstrip.
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The three parts are ready to be joined.
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The parts are glued together and it's become something like a wheel. [Blocked Image: http://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/papir/pak40/pak21sm.jpg]

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The spokes.

Each spoke is made of 5 parts. 4 parts makes the inner frame and the skin is put on the outside.
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The skin is bent over a 1,5mm rod to make the correct shape. [Blocked Image: http://home.online.no/~johsvenn/artimages/papir/pak40/pak25sm.jpg]

And put together
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The center is made of a paperstrip rolled against a 4mm drill.
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And glued in the center of the wheel.
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All eight spokes in place
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The lock of the wheel to the axel is made of 5 parts.Where the lock is made of a 0,5mm copperwire.
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Now it's time to put things together.The lock is glued into place on top in the centerpart.The letters on the side are in place.And the nuts are next out to make the wheel complete.
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The inner skin is painted black on the outide rims.
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The backside and the finished wheels.
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Next will be brakes....

Hallo Peter und Igor!
Dank für Ihre freundlichen Wörter!

Die Buchstaben wurden aus dem 0,2mm Papier heraus einzeln geschnitten und geklebt auf eins nach dem anderen...

Babelfish did it also for me

But don't worry much about the english....I'm not very good at it either.
But it's slightly better than my german
I understand German when I read it, but I can't write it very well!

The brake system contains 45 parts all in all for one wheel....

I'm starting with the centerpart that contains 11 parts.
First the drawing.
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So the main structure with the two circles and the paperstrip. The top pieces are glued to 0,5mm karton.
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And when it's mounted it looks like this.
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The lever contains 6 parts.
Drawing
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The cylinder contains 13 parts.
Drawing.
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Parts to be used and the finished part.
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Transfer arm
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Drawings of the last remaining item and the overview drawing.
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And when everyting are mounted the brakepart look like this.
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And the finished wheel.
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Finished the other brakesystem and made the connection to the axel on the right side.

Some small part on the connector.I'm not sure what this is called....

The drawing and parts to be used
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The finished part
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The bottom centerpart.

The drawing.
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The parts for the frameconstruction.
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The parts who belong together have been glued together.
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The frameconstruction is ready.
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Covering it up.First is the top skin
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And the sides are next....
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To be continued tomorrow....

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Originally posted by Jörg Schulze
Hi Johnny,

must be parts of the axis adjustment.

I´ve got my edition some days ago - WOW that is hardcore, especially when you try to do it moveable.

cheers,

Jörg

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I might have missed something here....moveable??
You can build this so that the parts are individually movable?

Have to look into that tomorrow when I'm back at work.

I guess I have to see if I can manage to do that.Sounds interesting!

The part is done.

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Next item.
The drawing
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The parts should have a 2mm centerhole.
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Assembly was straight forward, the rod painted black and the part glued to the underside of the plate.
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Some more parts.
The supporters for the front lowest shield.

The drawing and the parts to be used
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The finished items
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The parts mounted togehter.

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The suporters.

The connection to the main frame.
Drawings of the hinge
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And the bolt lifter
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One part is finished and the other is ready for some paint.The main structure of this part is made of lasercutted parts.
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So it's the lock to hold the legs in position
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I made this movable.
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Another part that will hang on the side of the legs
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The legs are made of an inner structure and the skin rolled on.
Drawing
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It was a bit tricky to get this right....since it's not that easy to roll a part of this lenght, but it came out quite nice.
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Thanks a lot for your kind words guys!!
I really appreciate your feedback!

I started on the second support leg.It's made of the inner structure and the outer skin.
There was a long connection strip, but I found it wery difficult to use it since I found no good way to be able to gain some pressure from the inside, so I decided to just join the tube butt to butt.

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I will continue on this parts the coming thursday night when I'm back at work.

The paper on this model shapes very good.I didn't have much trouble making the cylinder without any water assist
We don't have any UHU glue here in Norway, so I use a type of white glue from Scotch that I'm very satified with.

One leg done.

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And attached to the main frame
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The front plate.
A lot of small nuts on this part.....

The finished part on the drawings
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Closeups
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And with working hinges and lock
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Thanks Rick!!

Last leg done.

Some detals
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The legs and frontplate mounted

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The slide for the barrel.
Drawings
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Parts to be used.
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The finished part.
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Thanks klebär!!
I'm glad you enjoy the thread!

The slide is the main part of this section.

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A small part.
The drawing and the parts to be used
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Finished part,one for each side.
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The edge on top of the slide was not very easy to get nicely done....
It was 1mm to bend 90 degrees, and I failed to get this one very nice...
But when all parts are mounted and the edge is colored,I guess it will not be too bad after all.

Thanks Serge!!

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Originally posted by Hogges
Do You know about laser cutted nuts?

I know them wery well
I have about 500 in every size!

Another part on the slide is done.

The drawing.
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The finished part
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And the parts mounted on the slide.
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