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Vintage resin DAF M39 |
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Vintage resin M39 |
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August 18 2024 |
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Black is the colour of the day, or at least the primer. A compair for colours and sizes in daylight sees an M40 and an M38 Landsverk, as visitors. 
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July 29 2024 |
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The're on their feet, well ok, on their wheels. The first 3D tower version gets it's shape. It's not exact the correct with, but it's fittet to this hull to fit the gutter with it's rain extention. A and there is a visit from their M40 brother's. All details fitted, on to the paint. 
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April 23 2024 |
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A decision: I'm not going to make these 100% perfect. So the frontwheel suspention is not xact, but wil look the part when the M39 is on its wheels. The rear doors wil always tell me that they are prototype versions, and several details are not exactly as they should. 
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September 13 2022 |
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The trado axles have their leaf springs. The wire holding them in is flexible, so they are movable. Hope the wire is strong enough. It's a heavy modell. 
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July 25 2022 |
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July 18th sees a new fresh swing at the TraDo and the wheels. A cone for the tower to get a feel of the dimensions. It's stil a long journey to a correct tower. The Trado axle is 3d printed also. In fact, it are 2 different ones to fit the wheel holes of the MR-models and the Scale-line ones. The scale-line axle has the leave springs under the axle, but they are on the hull behind the axle. The original scale-line wheels are cleaned of all extra detail on the cheeks, but I could not get myself to cut of the super fine writing. They get the re-enforcements of the original wheels, as seen in early pictures. A new puzzle with the cone and some pictures and drawings gives a better form for the next version of the tower. 
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March 26 2022 |
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The sanding on the tower hole got done. The bottom of both got their rough shape. It's getting into a family! (see the overal build page. 
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February 16 2022 |
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The second hull is even more croocked than the first. and the tower has a smart design feature. On the left side the armor has a indentation that lets out the water (Holland is green, and so, has a lot of rain.) The tower hole is to narrow. With a cutting compass a line is scribled into the resin top deck, beyond the original low point of the tower hole. a sheet of plastic in and filler, and sanding again. 
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February 12 2022 |
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The fixing of the cracks in the rear fenders was getting a hasle, and by placing them higher the where to short. So my 3d skills and 3d printer gave me a straight fender. 
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January 11 2022 |
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The MR-wheels have one set back. The writing on them is way to big, and I cannot find one picture showing a single letter on a tyre, so, of with them. The hulls have lost their prototype horns and the rear fender alligns with the weld rim. 
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January 7 2022 |
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And as you probably know, sanding resin is not adviced. The fibers are reported to having the same effect as asbest. Wet sanding is the only way, and that makes another great find! The filler that makes a lot of fine powder and a britle finish. The wet sanding transformed into a dense smooth surface by the water. |
January 4 2022 |
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First action to get these resin bricks to look more like their part. So off with the fender (that is only 1,5 mm to low), but optically it has to align with the weld of upper and underside of the hull. Scribbing in the seam of the fenders. Making one break into 3 parts. Next leveling the bottom and sides. Simple adding a sheet of plastic and thin car putty. 
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December 25 2021 |
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It's getting more complicated. The support wheels of the vacu and the resin are very different in spacing, and the tower of the vacu is way bigger. The hatch is also in reverse on the vacu-formed. The armoured headlights are aligned over the support wheels on one of the original design drawings. But even the prototype has the headlights shifted inwards. Roughly the outside over the middle op the support wheels. The front hatch and periscope on the scale-line are visable wrong here. To far out, so both the vacu and the scale-line are incorrect. |
December 9 2021 |
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First evaluation of drawings, pictures and available modells spells out: Mayor project, mayor headache. The wheels where the main reason I put my vacu formed Airpress / Schmidt model on the shelf in the 90's. These wheels are not bad, not perfect either. The bottom of the vacu next tot the resin makes me wonder about the form of the hull. The fenders cut into the body in the vacuform. They don't in the resin cast, but the springs are suppost to be under the hull. 
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November 21 2021 |
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A second M39 finds it's way to me. Together with an M38 Landsverk. Unpainted, and reasonable build. I already had an unbuild one that I have put back in it's box several times. Both are from the Scale Line label. With 2 specimens, a Dutch May 1940 version and a German in 227th Infantery Division livrey makes sense. But what is that half Opel Blitz axle doing at it's bottom? 
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