The smaller the kit part the more difficult it is to handle without dropping it or loosing it as it shoots off into obscurity when you try to cut it off the sprue. However if you cut the two roes of four half wheels out from the main sprue without separating the induvial wheels you can have the ease of gluing them together because the spacing of the wheels on the two sprues is identical. as you can see at the bottom of the picture below.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
A smart bit of moulding.
Work starts on the Dragon Panzer Ferry kit with the various wheels for the tracks. Sometimes the mould makers do something to make life easier for the kit builder but never publish what they have done. Having built kits, or at least tried to build them, for more years then I can really remember you get wise to what some of these things are. In this case the top running wheels are small in size and are made up of two halves.
All I need to do now is to cut the now easier to handle larger wheels from their neighbours. As I usually mount the wheels onto the vehicle hull after painting to make it easier to paint both the hull and wheels I will await seperating the wheels until the painting stage.
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