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Showing posts with label M41 Walker Bulldog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label M41 Walker Bulldog. Show all posts

Saturday, April 12, 2014

All in the Details...

I have been progressing on the M41 the last few days. Both with CAD and with physical modeling techniques.

One of the latest details I found lacking was the M41 drive idler. The kit part has two problems; 1) its the wrong shape 2) it does not have the holes carved out of it for weight reduction. There was no way to modify the kit part, and the shape would not be easy to replicate correctly by hand. This is were I turned to CAD once again. Using the kit part for size reference as well as correct connection points to the kit I was able to rebuild it with the help of several reference images.



As you can see, the cad software was able to easily recreate the proper shape of the drive idler. Much better!