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    M4A4 Sherman VC Firefly, Halinski 1:25

    Snake, that is awesomely crazy.
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Hi I know this method. In this case the gluing tabs serve not only as internal reinforcement of narrow paper strips around the holes thru which the tube goes, but also act as a spacer that helps in positioning of side cheeks. This is a very good idea. I thought of other ways also but the...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Hi all I am back with only small update. I am in process of making hinges. Hinges are the parts that connect to the arms and allow arms to move relatively The build method is, again, interesting. Each hinge (except Hinge 4 which is actually a connection rod cover) is made of two small tubes...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Hello all Additional update, to be correct, a replay. So first I loaded the pages with boom and stick slide panels to GIMP and removed the guiding lines for internal reinforcements Then I cut the side panels and laminated with 0.6 mm cardboard (AKA cereals box cardboard, AKA paper modeller's...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    I totally agree, and because of this I will laminate the side panels with 0.6 mm cardboard
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Hello all. I got two updates.. First, I started with digger arms, or, speaking "professionally" the boom and the stick. The construction is quite regular for this model. Boxy structure with internal reinforcements. After finishing, I realized how bad these parts look. The reinforcements caused...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    :animated:Yeah, it will make happy one small boy Boris, aged 43;)
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Hello all One more update This time I went for energy block assembly. First I cut out the operator's cab and made the transparent windows. That was quite a thing since the pillars around the windows are pretty thin so need to be careful. For installing the windows I uses UHU Extra glue - I...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    The muffler will almost not be seen. The exhaust pipe will be very visible. I just bumped into an issue. The operators controls provided by designers look not right. This is supposed to Litronic equipped vehicle but controls are given by 4 sticks which doesn't seem correct. Also the sticks are...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Then came a lot of boxy structures which are referred by designers as Castings. Nothing difficult here And all the parts can be seen together More to be followed
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Then came the exhaust pipe and a muffler. Here the same cardboard was used again. The designers proposed to use the aluminium foil for the pipe and provided template for the foil and a gray part. After a quick thinking, I glued the white side of the part to a strip of home aluminum foil and cut...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Then I got to hydro block, which contains hydro pump and hydraulic liquid tank with internal reinforcement rib Here I also switched to my "former and wrapper" stile. I simple hate the "strip with tabs and a paper circle" method. I could never make this method work. For former I used cereals box...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Hello everybody This time I got a pretty big update I will split this update into number of posts. First is the counterweight - no special hustle here, just need to be very careful with gluing of the back panel with round middle section. Also inner structure need to be adapted to its...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    The 80 gram per square meter means how much 1 square meter of this particular paper weighs. 16 sheets of A4 paper are actually 1 square meter. This fact can be used to assess the paper thickness of a given pack of paper. Most of the Polish models use 160 g/sq meter paper and usually this paper...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Well, usually it is pretty simple. But in this case the designers simply mentioned that paper of density of 80 gram per square meter or higher should be used. So need to adapt certain things to this.
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Hello all A small update - Backbone assembly (as the designers call it) Here I bumped into first problem which was caused by my decision to use thicker paper. Parts 47 and 48 needed to be shortened a bit and the part 47 (internal reinforcement) had to be rearranged. I hope this won't ruin the...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Yeah, I saw this thread, that wasn't nice at all BTW, all Retunga's and Chriess model can be found here, in resources section, for example http://www.zealot.com/resources/liebherr-964-excavator.883/download?version=883 Interestingly, there are 23 downloads of this excavator but no build logs or...
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    Liebherr R-954 Excavator by nosports and Retunga

    Actually the model was taken here http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_other.html