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Revell 1/25
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| Next step is to fabricate the steering and front suspension assemblies. All the necessary parts can be found in the box, but they look either unrealistic or out of scale. | |||
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The steering rack housing was made of various raw materials. The center section is aluminum pipe, and the braces (white in the pic) are pieces of plastic. The bushes (black parts) were made of vinyl cord coiled around a rod of an appropriate size |
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| The tie-rod is made up of three pieces, and are connected with flexible vinyl pipes, allowing both ends to bend. A combination of small brass pipes was added to the end, simulating the piece that's extruded from the ball-joint housing attached to both ends of the steering rack. |
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| Each of the ball joint
housings was pin-connected to the axel carrier with a 0.5 mm diameter brass
rod. Although the housing was glued to the frame and the forward & back motion was restrained, the flexible tie-rod solved the problem. |
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| Here the rack is steered to the left. The sectioned rack bent as the axel carrier moved. It worked almost like the real rack, which is sectioned into three pieces and connected with ball joints. |
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| Next was the dampers, and this is how the kit part looked like. Both top and bottom ends of the damper details looked dull and begging to be enhanced. |
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| The damper itself was easy to
make. It was a combination of two pipes of different sizes.
I added pieces of plastic at both ends of the frame, where the pivots are located. The dampers are pivoted as shown, but that's purely for my self-satisfaction, as they don't move after the frame is attached to the chassis. |
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| This is the finished dampers
detail. They're unpainted, so you can clearly tell what kind of material I used. |
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| The anti-roll bar was made of various materials. The bar itself is a plastic rod, and the rubber bushes are brass pipes. The brackets are plastic sheet, and the shot links at each side of the anti-roll bar are 0.5 mm brass rod. |
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