"Assembly guide for Hammers Slammers tanks by Ainsty." Topic

Just got them and well the barrels don't quite fit in the space provided. Can someone tell me they are supposed to fit?

I don't have any of those (rather lovely) Ainsty tanks, but it seems that resin bits *not quite* fitting is pretty much the norm across manufacturers.
A hobby knife will make short work of any stubborn bits!

The metal requires a substantial amount of filing in order to fit into the resin turret. It's an extremely snug fit. Or not a fit at all until the filing is done.

Looks nice when it is done though.

There are a few decent pics provided by John Treadaway on the Slammers Crucible site which can be helpful references too.

Drilling out the resin would probably be easier than filing metal.

There was an issue with the barrels (the original sculpt of the barrel collapsed in the mould and had to be remade). I'm hoping Andy has/will fix(ed) this.

Having done 16 of the things, I can definately say it took me probably under a minute to do each barrel with a coarse file. But that's stilla quarter ofan hour I didn't get back :(

Irritating, I know, but safer than trying to cut the resin.

When you give the metal a dozen or so strokes on each side (depending on the coarseness of your file, obviously) they goin a treat and that area you've just been filing is hidden by the resin mantlet so you can afford to be quite brutal.

I did a few at different elevations as well by – in one case – filing some metal away from the barrel rear to enable the gun to raise up high enough.

Hope the shots help – oh and one of them has deliberate damage (the multi-coloured discolouration of the iridium).

Also link
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John T

PS – some of the shots of painting completed the week before Salute are waaaay to close for my comfort but they are what I had todo to get them ready in time!

Nice work JT …

That works, thanks JT! I was worried I was just incompetent! In any event, I plan on doing my HS as per the book (dull grey rather than silver). No offense to anyone here, but silver just looks…wrong on a tank…I do like the battle damage, how did you do that?

With a drill and a scalple for the hole and Tamiya coloured laquer for the colour.

Drakes description is, of course, grey. I suspect that I'll never know what colour huge lumps of the metal they are made of oxidises to.

John T