Ach więc żali się że podwójne tłumaczenie z polskiego na angielski na japoński jest całkowicie niezrozumiałe i pyta się czy ktoś by mu nie przetłumaczył
Mam nadzieję że nie obrazicie że wysyłam jeszcze raz to co pisałem o TK 94 po angielsku (o jeden stopień translacji mniej)
No to tłumaczenie:
I'll be putting here these micro-relations from building little models assembled for fun and make a mountain of printouts that my brother keeps bringing to me a little smaller
Micro, because most often those models are in little scales - 1:72, 1:48 etc., and one entrance is to be about one model...
For first throw there will go japanese tankette TK type 94, which entered service in 1935r., used both as a tractor with a trailer for transporting ammunition / supplies and also as a light tank for recconaissance / patrolling. TK is an abbreviation from Tokushu Keninsha (Special Tractor). The construction was based on british tankette Carden-Loyd Mark VIb.
Model was downloaded from japanese
page (unfortunately all characters are bushes

), direct
link to model. It says it's in 1:72 scale, but it's too small - the length is over 1 cm too short. Is that an inborn japanese tendence for miniaturisation?
I had the idea of making a relation after I assembled the hull, so the pictures start from this point on. The model was made from a printout on typical A4 printer paper. The hull is drawn as one part - I've cut it without leaves, cut off the sides, glued them on a card and glued the rest around on contact, gluing in a ring. I hoped that in so little a scale it will be enough to keep them rigid, but the walls of the hull (except for the thickened sides) are concave to a different degrees - the next time I'll thicken all the flats. On such assembled hull I glued then several boxes - fun of gluing BCG (Brand Clear Glue) the thin paper on contact

In the end I glued the mudguards on.
I played a little with the suspension, thickening it,. cutting out holes in the driving and cog-wheels (I didn't have patience for the other wheels with my sore fingers) and basically trying to bring it out a little
Tower - I thickened the bottom/front/top and formed, using of course thinning the card from behind, after which I glued the unthickened sides around it - here there were no troubles with concaving - I suppose that the paper got more rigid because of the curving, while the flat walls of the hull weren't. There appeared a little triangle holes - a mistake in the part drawing - I covered them with little pieces of paper which I later cut down with a scalpel. In the end I glued in the little tube that allows for turning the tower.
After mounting the tower I discovered that it gets stopped while turning by an extruding box in the hull in front of it, that contains the driver's visor. I moved the hole in the hull a little bit to the back, so the tower could rotate freely.
All that was left was to glue the machine gun and model was finished (although there was one part left, a lifter I suppose, which assembling way nor placement I didn't discovered)
And of course modelling measurement (Polish one grosz) for establishing the size of the model plus a picture on A4 printout I've cut its parts from.
The next entrance will be about model of russian armored car Russo-Bałt S24/40
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Kat: Pią Cze 15 2007, 17:36
Wow, what scale is this little thing? The level of assembling is really incredible
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cieciwa: Pią Cze 15 2007, 18:42
And the scale is 1:76 i suppose, in spite of what is written on that page...
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According to
wikipedia the original dimensions were: length 3m, width, height 1,6m. Model has width, height 1,9cm and lenght 3,2cm. The length is disputable because of the mudguards etc., but the width and height of the model seem to be measured correctly. From simple calculations we get 1:84 scale (according to the width, height), or 1:94 scale (according to the length). I believe that closer to the truth is the first one - 1:84 scale. Which is definitely not the 1:72 as was written on the printout on the last picture...
That's all about the TK type 94, although I wouldn't be upset if the author would make a trailer for it too
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Update (2007.06.19):
Teraz wiem że autor modelu nazywa się Yutaka Machida. Komentarzem na blogu powiadomiłem go o tym tłumaczeniu - stwierdził że teraz rozumie, podziękował w imieniu swoim i japońskich modelarzy, co do skali powiedział że opracował model w skali 1:16, a potem przy przeskalowaniu na 1:72 zakradł się błąd. W tej chwili projektuje lekki czołg typ 95 Ha-Go w skali 1:72 i w świetle tego co przeczytał na tym forum postara się zaprojektować go lepiej

- Do not try to make a model. Instead only try to realize the truth.
- What truth?
- There is no model. Then you will see that it's not the model that you make, it is only yourself.