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The rubber has come out looking good. I wish you the best of luck with the remaining wheels

I think the driver drew the short straw when it came to bailing out of the Tank. I have a photo of a crew member stood up in that hatch during some down time.... I just need to find the photo.

2 hours ago, johann morris said:

Evening All,

Manufacturing the radio operators seat was next on the list, the only picture that I could find of it is this one and I think that this is a pre-production version but it's better than nothing.

My version.

    

It can fit in two positions but personally, I wouldn't want to be in either, as it is so very cramped and how you would get out in an emergency is any ones guess.

 

Check out this video, the hatch for the radio operator is open at the beginning.

 

 

2 hours ago, johann morris said:

Afternoon,

My big brother came to visit us today, well in actual fact, he came to see  the Panzer. As I had tided things up yesterday, he didn't see the mass of wires so I don't think he could appreciate what a real headache it has been.

A somewhat tidier engine bay

 

It's hard to believe there will be room in the hull for crew once it has all the gear in there? It looks fantastic.

Would these tracks have been of any use? I wonder where they got them. A quote from their page from 2 weeks ago "from the foundry, with our models and machined by us."

I'm going to take a guess you've already seen the link i'm posting? On the off chance you haven't http://tankarchives.blogspot.com/2017/08/pzkpfwii-ausf-c-c-at-spearhead-of.html 

Very nice work. It's nice to see it coming together piece by piece.

As promised, I dug out some links to various galleries. There are quite a few detailed photos which I hope will be of help to you?

http://www.armorfortheages.com/MilitaryVehicles/PzKpfwII/PanzerIIGallery01/index.html

http://tankarchives.blogspot.com/2017/08/pzkpfwii-ausf-f-third-times-charm.html

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1885688051658028&type=3&hc_location=ufi

https://www.net-maquettes.com/pictures/pzkpfw-ii-col2/

You are doing a 99.9% better job than i ever could and at the end you will have your own little Tank to run round in. Have you tried to figure the eventual end weight once it's built?

I have to admit that i only counted one spring i didn't think that they might all be different.

I actually have two Dragon Panzer IIs. I'm in no rush to finish them off at the moment while i try and sort my Car.

I'll see if i can dig out some links to photo studies of the various Panzer II Tanks. Lots of close up photographs. But for me, i'm studying the AUSF C & AUSF F as they are the RC models i intend to build.

I believe there are 17 leaves per spring unit. I'm making something similar but in 1/6 scale and without a thimble full of the skills you have.