Meng 1/35 M2A3 Bradley BUSK III

[Keith Christie]

Hi Mence,

Nice start so far, the kit looks awesome!
Ill be watching from the back mate.

Best Regards

Keith.

[bbd468]

OH Man,im so happy i made it here fairly early Mence! Lookin forward to this BIG TIME my friend.

[Tojo72]

Wow this is some kit and one impressive build,congrats

[adampolo13-Email Not Valid]

I just ordered mine from China!!! Looking forward to following this build! Thanks agian!

[Mence]

More chaps, welcome to you all.

Ok, update time of sorts, more promised later.

Wheels, lovely assemblies most having a Tamiya poly cap style to them. With the exception of the four small return rollers, they are multipart so lots of cleanup (hence delay).

Apologies for poor pic quality...



Of note are the road wheels, separate tyres allow the wheels to display the correct 'channel' round the inside edge of the rim. Not also bolt detail on the back of the wheel rim, lovely stuff.



That's it, more a little later as I need to pop out for a while.

[Leon]

Off to a good start Mence,looking forward to your next update.

[Mence]

Cheers Leon, update this afternoon...

[sabre]

Rolling right along I see there Mence, you sure are off to a flying start. (please excuse the pun )

[imatanker]

Nice touch with the separate tires. Sure will make painting a lot easier.

[Mence]

Thanks chaps.

Here's the second update for the day, suspension.

Individual torsion bars with freely moving metal shrouded dampers, sparing use of glue ensures it all remains workable. My advice is to SLIGHTY open out the damper top mount securing hole AND lightly sand the locating peg on the back of the torsion bars to ensure the various parts locate without damage.



Close up...



And finally, a view from inside showing how neatly it all goes together.



ACW, thanks!

[Leon]

Mence,nice work on the workable suspension.Looking good.

[Deleted]

Oh gawd! that looks flipping super! and those tracks look great too. Yet another model that I will probably have to add to the stash! Great work so far

[imatanker]

Man, that suspension is killer. How long will it be before Meng starts making Braille stuff?  

[Mence]

Much appreciated chaps.

Ok, tentative start on the interior which to me is gonna look pretty complete when it's done.

Much of what you see is dry fitted or temporarily attached with white glue while check fit, so far, the fit is spot on.



Thanks chaps.

[danb.]

Awesome updates buddy im liking the workable shockers DML should take a leaf out of Mengs book the torsion bars on my Panther are shite the keep breaking keep up the good work buddy

Dan B

[Mence]

Cheers Dan, glad you like. Must admit this kit is very nicely engineered, so far construction has been a breeze.

[chris0423]

Hey Mence, great work on the running gear, the interior looks real nice. Certainly seems to be a complete kit, no need for aftermarket PE and resin (if there ever is a need that is). Keep it up.

Chris.

[wbill76]

Making good progress Mence! You know you're single-handedly responsible for several keyboards shorting out due to excessive drool puddling now, right?

[Mence]

Chris, Bill, cheers chaps, it's really a neat kit, my only frustration is that I can't spend more time on it!

[Leon]

WOW,nice start on the interior Mence .I may just have to add this kit to my stash.

[Mence]

Thanks both.

Gotta agree Dicky, not a whole lot of point as it's all going to be painted anyway, does make some of the sprues easier to find though!

Should have another update tomorrow.

[Deleted]

Well, Thank you Mr Mence. I would never have thought about test fitting parts with white glue!! It makes perfect sense when you think about it. Top tip of the year that fella.

mack

[Mence]

My pleasure Mack, that tip comes as a result of building too many ill fitting Auto models....

[imatanker]

The innerds of the Beast are looking very nice Prof. I agree with Mac, that's a great tip about the white glue. I've got a question though, what do you do when it comes time to permanently attach the parts? Do you remove them, clean off the white glue and them fix them with the stinky stuff?  

[Mence]

Exactly that Jeff, using PVA, it's easily cleaned of with warm water, leave it to dry then crack on with stinky.

[imatanker]

Sweet
Talking this type of stuff right?

[Mence]

Chaps.

Dicky, ya got me!

Jeff, that's the stuff mate, especially helpful for holding on tank wheels while you get your tracks set.

[James Duff]

The car guy does an APC...pulling up a chair to watch this development.

[Mence]

welcome James! Yes, very occasionally I stray to the dark side despite being very average at it,

[bbd468]

Nice build so far brother Mence! Sure is a BOX LOAD of parts!