EBT Jim posted:Moonson posted:Again .... wonderful work, Frank. We keep returning to your photos to examine and admire the details.
- My nephew has a couple of these John Deere forestry vehicles in a diorama, andhe would like to put a figure in the driver's seat. His cabs don't open. Did you cut yours open? Any trick to that?
Thanks, Jim
Hi Jim, There seemed to be a different trick for each machine.
I never cut anything.
If there is a figure in mine,
it got there by either my unscrewing something, somewhere, bending something over, removing a roof, or using a tiny screwdriver to pry something aside or up and flipping the cab open. It took a while, and some disassembly if necessary, but my theory was that somebody got the seat in there somehow, so I was determined to open the cab up, if just for a few quick, forced seconds, wide-open enough to get the guy in there with glue on his hips and/or butt, snap him into place, and close it all up quickly. A few had what seemed to be rivets, so they were impregnable and left as they were, driverless.
Some cabs flipped open forward, some backwards, some sideways. Some not at all.
If I recall correctly (it's been a decade), I believe this one required some disassembly of the whole model to get at the cab from the underside, and then inside.
Your nephew may need to remove them from his dioramas and rotate the top part, and flip the model over. He may see a way in from that vantage. It may demonstrate that removing the model's motor part allows access to the cab.
Patience helps, as does a sense of adventure and determination.
FrankM
