Fred's 2016 Painting Diary

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

All look awesome!

[paulr]

  Huge

[DFlynSqrl]

All kinds of cool toys!

[fred.]

Yep 

Good isn't it.

There is nothing quite like a Pendraken parcel.

[fred.]

Having a bit of trouble with the Austro-Daimler M12 tractor (AH18)

1) The foot rests at the back, I can't work out where these are supposed to go. Looking at the photo they go just below the seats, but I can't spot any locating holes. If this is the right spot, I can drill some holes.

2) The windscreen and back of the cab - are these meant to be asymmetric, with some extra of the top bar sticking out to one side? Or is this just a bit of feed that can be trimmed away. I've found Mart's original post and I think these are just bits of feed. http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,14352.msg204824.html#msg204824

But still not sure how to fix the foot boards (parts 8 and 9 in the link above)

[fred.]

Austro-Daimler M12 tractor (AH18)

Managed to get this together with a bit of help from Leon (Thanks, great customer service!). There are locating holes for the footrests under the bench seats, these are higher up than I was expecting, so I hadn't spotted them.



And having spotted the gap in the exhaust join from the cab to the engine, I've now added a bit of plastic rod to close the gap.

[Womble67]

Looks impressive now its built

Take care

Andy

[jchaos79]

HaHa, WWI designs looks like a little bit Gorka Morka for me.

Nice ... tractor/truck? what was the military use of the Autro-Daimler M12?

[fred.]

It was an artillery tractor - for example to tow the huge mortar pictured above. The last set of bits are to build the mortar in its 3 towed loads!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice 

[fred.]

30.5cm Morser towed AH20

Got all the 3 parts of the disassembled towed mortar glued together

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Holy funt! That is a long piece of kit!

[fred.]

Yep. Probably need a 40mm deep base for each of the 4 pieces. 

[Womble67]

That looks good

Take care

Andy

[Leon]

Those look great all lined up together.