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Looking good Ken Regards Trev Work in progress: Artesania Stage-Coach.
Scratch Build: Tombstone Arizona Diorama.
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Nice start! Looks like it’ll be a nice kit. -Dustin
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Looking good Ken.
Just wondering though, is the front spring shackle upside down?
It seems to be opposite to the rear shackle.
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Watching with interest; how good are spoke wheel castings, are there aftermarket real wire spoke wheel available?
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Yes Roy I thought that strange but it is according to the instructions. Dustin there are after market wheels for it but I think the wheels look fine that come with the kit so I will be using those, although I have bought a lock wire bolt kit for it. more work on the engine, the pipework is supposed to be gunmetal (why? Surley it would be steel or ally) anyway I decided for a bit of interest I would do it copper.    Added some weathering to the engine.    Ken's the name modeling's the game.
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Eagle wrote:Watching with interest; how good are spoke wheel castings, are there aftermarket real wire spoke wheel available? There are! https://www.cybermodeler...un/detail_un_alfa.shtml
I have a set, and they are SWEET! Best, Mark “The charm of fishing is the elusive pursuit of the attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope”
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Nicely done so far, nice details in the screw and bolt heads too, other than the wheel lock is everything else box stock that you've done?
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Yes all out of the box (well apart from the added copper pipework) yes there are after market wheels available but I don't think there's much wrong either the kit ones, let's face it this will probably end up in the shed, if my skills were upto someone commissioning me to build a model for them maybe I would go for A/M parts (or maybe not, not much skill in attaching A/M parts) I will admit I have bought the wire locking bolt kit for this.but again it will only end up in the shed. Ken's the name modeling's the game.
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Just catching up with this Ken, very nice work.  Mark
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