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Some hundred to two hundred years ago, when things were still right in the US of A, urgent mail was carried with horse drawn coaches between various post office staging areas, thus the stage coach was born.  As the Aventador is done, I again have too much time during lunch breaks which needs to be filled. I'm filling it with building Artesania Latinas 1:10 model of a 1848 Concord type US mail and passenger coach.  This is what greets us upon opening the box; a plethora of wood and metal, leather and cushioning. Also contained is a 1:1 plan of the model (photographed from the prototype) and a 90 page booklet showing the 67 building stages.
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Stage 0,25: Fitting the four parts onto each wheel. Making and fitting the spokes The first challenge presents itself in putting together the 4 bow shaped parts of the outer rim of the wheel. The 4 parts need to be placed so as to form a perfect circle on the outer side while still closing the loop. Not very easy with the simple butt cut LA has decided on doing. I needed a building jig. Of course I'm in the office and have limited access to my tools and stuff. Which resulted in the worlds first wheel building jig built entirely from office supplies: An old level box from a recent delivery with a copy of the plan taped atop and some redesigned staples to use as guiding pins.  Which worked far better than expected 
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Still stage 0,25 The next challenge was forming the spokes. AL delivers several 40cm lengths of 4 mm sapelli dowel which needs to be flattened across the length from two sides. AL suggested doing this by sanding the dowel, but let's be honest, this will never work correctly. Instead I built another jig.  This building board features two 4mm wide grooves with 2mm and 3mm height to provide a place to fasten and hold the dowel and to guide along a straight blade pushed down the dowel by hand. Again this worked much better as expected.  There was one problem though. Sapelli is prone to breaking and I was producing far too many unusable sticklets to fit all my wheels with the available material. Which led to a surprising discovery. If you take all the supplied sapelli dowels and throw them away in a big garbage crate and instead replace them with some 4mm walnut dowels from the hobby store next door, you will save 90% of production time on spokes with zero misshapes, zero breakage and better fit in the hub.  And thus the first wheel is put together. Put together, not finished, as there's much to be done with it yet. But first, gotta build its three brothers.
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Great Job What have they supplied to go around the outside of the wheels?
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Looks good Greyhawk.I think I read in a review somewhere that making the spokes for the wheels for this kit was, shall we say, not a lot of fun!
Carl
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michael.rolph wrote:Great Job
What have they supplied to go around the outside of the wheels? There's a band of walnut veneer supplied that will be blackened with bitumen. Carl, yes, the spokes took me a while to find a viable solution for. The current one works pretty great, though it's still not perfect and it has a non-small potential for injury.
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This looks like a nice kit to build, cracking job so far  Al
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Nice looking kit, something out of the "Norm" Will be looking forward to your updates. Regards delboy271155 (Derek) COME BACK GUY FAWKES "YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU"
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That looks a really great bit of work on that wheel. Looks fantastic. Happy Modelling
BUILDING: Hachette Spitfire Mk 1A, Constructo Mayflower
SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETE (Awaiting building): USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, 1:200 Bismarck (Hachette)
COMPLETED: Porsche 911, E-Type Jaguar, Lam Countach
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This looks like it will be interesting to follow, something a bit different 
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Looks like you're off to a good start, looks like this one will bring a few challenges for you along the way.... will be watching..... Regards Alan
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Nice job with the wheel, hope the rest of the build is less problematic.
Graeme
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I wouldn't really call it problematic yet per se. So far it seems pretty par for the course for a non-partwork kit. They tend to present more challenges.
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greyhawk wrote:I wouldn't really call it problematic yet per se. So far it seems pretty par for the course for a non-partwork kit. They tend to present more challenges. yes Artesania Latina instructions are sometimes not much better than "see all this wood and metal in the box.Make it look like the picture on the outside of the box.Good luck." That is the benefit of the partworks.Excellent instructions. Carl
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