The next Project an ASMH

[Mullaney]

An update on the progress on the m62. Went back in today, it's been a hot minute took some time off for Thanksgiving. Spent two weeks out in the desert, it was glorious! The old mirrors were flippity floppity and you couldn't see anything out of them so a few weeks ago I dug some out of a pile of mirrors we have and had Craig squirt some paint on them. Got those mounted. I fixed the bridge plate. And I was able to show some love to the crane operator Dash with all the data plates. Came out pretty good!

The old data plates were riveted on the dash so I had to use a chisel to cut them off. The back sides of some of them were oxidized pretty bad. Had to use a flap wheel to knock the corrosion off and then used 400 on an orbital sander and sanded both sides of the data plates. Funny after sanding you could almost read them!

After sanding and cleaning them, gave them a coat of self-etching primer and let that dry. I held the new decals up to the clean painted plates but didn't like the gray primer around the edges so I ended up spraying them silver on one side and then afixing the decals.

After the silver paint dried, sprayed a little bit of Windex on the tags and centered the decals. They came out very nice thank you very much Tim

The replacement tags I made for the control levers didn't look right without a border around them when next to the newly refreshed data tags. I just masked them off and use the same silver paint to give them a border. Next step is to mount them with screws instead of rivets. And by the way they weren't pop rivets they were the kind you got to smack to make them expand. National Guard, what can I say!View attachment 937023View attachment 937024View attachment 937025View attachment 937026View attachment 937027View attachment 937028View attachment 937029View attachment 937030View attachment 937031View attachment 937032View attachment 937033View attachment 937034

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Wow Will... That looks fantastic!
Took a lot of effort on your part, but it looks really good.


Tim

 

[BLK HMMWV]

Look at you go.!!
You have come a long way since the paint by # set I got for you last Christmas.
Seriously that looks very Good.
Nice Job. Did you put some clear coat or something on them to keep the sun from taking it's toll on them. Sadly everything sits outside.

 

[WillWagner]

I think since the decals are vinyl, no clear over them. I am afraid that the paint might eat the vinyl. I would then need to start over, don't wanna do that. We will just make a cover for the operators compartment so that the controls are covered and out of the sun.

Made a few more changes, but no pics. Mounted the Oxy/Acet tanks. I will get a pic of that plus the acetylene tank. It has a 1942 date stamp.

It is almost ready to go out for display. We plan on moving the V100 to the spot where this was, the tug is there now, and putting this in the aisle, roped off, so people can do a 360 of it.

A bit of good news, the Army is scheduled to remove 3 vehicles, I think, or is it two and some mortars? I don't remember. I do know that an M75 and an M42 will be leaving at our request and will be freeing up some room in the display area.

We have a couple of artillary pieces that are in their transport configs. I would like to get one set up in firing configuration, maybe throw some shell casings around the piece. That is for another thread!

There is also another interactive display that BLK HMMWV worked hard on that need some assembly and a mount made up. Again, for another post!