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Category |
Date |
Preview |
| Creosotewind | Rogers 40mm Bofors AA cannon | Parked | 08-Feb-10 09:22 |  |
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| Creosotewind | Rogers 40mm Bofors AA cannon | Parked | 08-Feb-10 09:22 |  |
| Views : 566 |
| To avoid sharp cut edges, I carefully rolled over the edges upon themselves using the toothpick to define the shape. The other tool helped to roll over the aluminum lip. |
| Creosotewind | Rogers 40mm Bofors AA cannon | Parked | 08-Feb-10 09:20 |  |
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| Some of the tools I use for tooling. The small pieces are toothpicks with rounded ends. The bigger pieces are used for clay artists. The brayer is good to roll the material flat. I found that at a yard sale. |
| Creosotewind | Rogers 40mm Bofors AA cannon | Parked | 08-Feb-10 09:18 |  |
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| The seats are basically tractor seats. The kit supplies pressed plastic pieces that are not really well defined. I tried my hand at making one in aluminum. The tracing shows the pattern drawing, white showed the stencil pattern and finally on the right is a cut piece of aluminum ready to be shaped. The holes are 1/8", punched from a craft store hole punch. |
| Creosotewind | Rogers 40mm Bofors AA cannon | Parked | 08-Feb-10 09:15 |  |
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| This still shows the brass tubing. I removed those pieces because the adhesive didn't have good shear strength. I replaced the brass with 1/8" wood dowells that were drilled through. |
| Creosotewind | Rogers 40mm Bofors AA cannon | Parked | 08-Feb-10 09:13 |  |
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| The brace pins to the barrel. I tried glueing brass tubing to the wood, but couldn't get it to stick. |
