Sorry I have been absent a couple of weeks. Been on the job!
I wanted to follow up with the mechanical description with some pics of the finished model and some final thoughts.
The kit turned out alright. It's a simple kit with some good properties, as well as some things I would suggest be changed. First, let look at it done with some commentary...
[note the head tilted as if blown off center by the wind]
The final kit is pretty clean and adding a few optional tidbits improves it a bit. The kit, as suggested builds as a simple model. Adding plastic for the windows, detailing the sails, and movement to the head and veins, all made it a bit nicer than the basic build.
I found couple of images on line of other people's builds of this kit and you can see that its a clean build without the enhancements. I am glad I put some of the extra detail into mine, however.
![Cardmodel of the Smock Wind mill.jpg Cardmodel of the Smock Wind mill.jpg](https://www.zealot.com/data/attachments/143/143954-1a932f4ec40df04f98bd4e7600a69819.jpg)
I wanted to follow up with the mechanical description with some pics of the finished model and some final thoughts.
![model straight on.JPG model straight on.JPG](https://www.zealot.com/data/attachments/143/143951-9868415b5a8a5b033f8bab8170f32b26.jpg)
The kit turned out alright. It's a simple kit with some good properties, as well as some things I would suggest be changed. First, let look at it done with some commentary...
![Model swayed.JPG Model swayed.JPG](https://www.zealot.com/data/attachments/143/143952-0129a3bf133c7ce5c55c25cee4b399b6.jpg)
The final kit is pretty clean and adding a few optional tidbits improves it a bit. The kit, as suggested builds as a simple model. Adding plastic for the windows, detailing the sails, and movement to the head and veins, all made it a bit nicer than the basic build.
![model tiled.JPG model tiled.JPG](https://www.zealot.com/data/attachments/143/143953-41ff575016ca1d08e82d0b0dd11c8a4f.jpg)
I found couple of images on line of other people's builds of this kit and you can see that its a clean build without the enhancements. I am glad I put some of the extra detail into mine, however.
![fb684d5e993a199936b4adfec6118ea3.jpg fb684d5e993a199936b4adfec6118ea3.jpg](https://www.zealot.com/data/attachments/143/143955-fb684d5e993a199936b4adfec6118ea3.jpg)
![Cardmodel of the Smock Wind mill.jpg Cardmodel of the Smock Wind mill.jpg](https://www.zealot.com/data/attachments/143/143954-1a932f4ec40df04f98bd4e7600a69819.jpg)