No time like the present Richard. What you can't do with plastic stock you can do with any other material. Copper, brass, aluminum all make for reasonable scratch building materials. Just break it down into its components. Every piece is a series of connected shapes. Look at what shapes you'll need to do the job. Then construct the complex structure from the simpler ones. (Remember, somebody, probobly DJ, had to scratchbuild that kit first for the production master.) Jump in the pond, Rob has your life preserver if you need it. But nothing ventured nothing gained and the experience will be invaluable down the road. Just take your time and think it through. You may have to build it a couple of tiimes to get it just right. But the effort will well be worth it for the outcome. Today a gun stabilizer, tomorrow those nasty spaces under the sponsons, then hatch covers, fenders, cutting things apart and remaking new ones, etc.
Later when you get real good at it, there is this model by Tamiya.....
Mike
Mike
"Imagination is the dye that colors our lives"
Marcus Aurellius
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
