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  1. CDW
    Final photos ”Let’s go to work!”
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    Sitting next to a German staff car in the same scale gives an impression of the size of the D7, a big machine, close to 40 tons gross weight.
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    Thanks Javlin Will add some more weathering, detail painting, winch cable, headlight lenses, then call this one done.
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    Wish I was there to see that show!
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    Observe the hand crank on top of the engine cover. The crank is connected to a vertical shaft that makes a 90 degree turn toward an object on the side of the engine. The hand crank is used to start the engine vis a vis a “pony motor”. The object on the side of the engine is the pony motor. When the pony motor is started using the hand crank, this auxiliary motor actually is the starter for the Diesel engine. Not an electric start. As a matter of fact, one of the first things we are taught when working on a gas pipeline is to quickly throw a rag over top of the air breather in the event we ever strike and rupture a live gas pipeline. Unless choked for air, a Diesel engine will rev up uncontrollably once it starts breathing in natural gas.
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    Anatomy of a rusty exhaust stack
  7. CDW
    Thanks for the comments. Every Cat dozer I ever worked around had a hinged flap on top of the exhaust stack to keep rain and debris out. The kit did not include one, but it’s easy enough to scratch one from scrap styrene and photo etch tree material.
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    Engine grime wash
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    Using AK Weathering pencils to do some rust items here and there. Started off with the exhaust manifold in dark rust. Subsequent colors will be applied to achieve the effect desired.
  11. CDW
    Acrylics, water based, but there must be something added that slows the drying time. It's to allow some self-leveling tendencies, I think. Kinda neat how the shader left what looks like a handprint on the toolbox. Totally unanticipated.
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    24 hour drying time on the shaders
  13. CDW
    Using just these two shader paints so far Looks like this
  14. CDW
    Yes on the yellow for this one. I have another armored version I will do in OD.
  15. CDW
    The very last link is completed by sliding a pin in place to secure the link, then glue on the track plate/pad. A subtle coat of clay colored shader placed on area of road wheels to simulate ground conditions. Other shades will be used elsewhere on the model along with other weathering effects.
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    Thanks…and it’s very realistic to the actual way the track links are assembled IRL. MiniArt are on their game in the design of their kits. Maybe could be considered a bit over engineered at times.
  17. CDW
    While there is no quick way to build the tracks, I found an organized and process flow that works well for me. First glue a pin into one side of the link parts. Note that each track pad has four alignment indents to locate the link parts. Slide the pin/link assembly through the preceding link and glue to pad. Note that there is a right and left link part and these parts are specific for each side. Now slide the opposite link part onto the pin then glue to the track pad. Glue must not contact the pin/link part so as to remain moveable.
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    Thanks OC Each track link consists of four parts. Each track side contains thirty six links. No quick way to get this done, parts are fiddly.
  19. CDW
    Ready for some tracks. Fiddly links but convincing as real.
  20. CDW
    Beautiful, a stallion!
  21. CDW
    I twisted together 4 strands of 30 gauge wire to create a cable for the winch. It seems a little too much diameter so will re-do with 3 strands for a smaller diameter. If any of you have ever been a “swamper” for a winch equipped dozer, you will have a healthy respect for steel cable. The cable will often get frayed with individual wire strands jutting out. Even with heavy leather gloves on. The sharp strands often poke through the gloves giving a painful stab wound to the hands and fingers. It’s probably hard to believe, but I would completely wear out a new pair of leather work gloves every day. Company doesn't supply them either. It’s an individual expense.
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    She even went with me to buy the models today. She never gives me any grief for buying hobby items, Never has in almost 50 years.
  24. CDW
    Uncle Joe was my mentor. In 1933 Joe was born, one of 16 children all of the same mother and father on a farm in West Virginia. While his dad was away at work, an employee of Columbia Gas company, all the kids had chores to do to help keep food on the table. When Joe reached the ripe old age of 8, he decided (probably from necessity) to go to work full-time with his older cousin, Lester. Lester was a logger, driving a team of Belgian work horses to haul huge cut logs to a sawmill. In new pipeline construction, a 100-foot-wide right-of-way is cleared pushing trees off to each side. The timber was pretty much free for the taking as it most often was in locations very difficult to access and even more problematic dragging it to the sawmills. Joe learned to command his own team of horses and by the time he was 18 years old, had saved enough money to buy his own dump truck, trailer, and D6 dozer. From this humble beginning, Joe built his own multi-million-dollar gas and oil pipeline business.
  25. CDW
    Remember that movie, The Blob? That's the way my stash is growing. 😅

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