Thanks Dan! The tranny cover required some shaving and fiddling to get to fit, it is a friction fit. Also, the flooring was a little bit warped so required some persuasion to stay put. Other than that, a great kit so far!
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20th century window glass has a greenish tint, as you can see by looking at it through the sides. Because normal glass panes are so thin, you don’t see any color shift, but at the thicknesses used for armor glass panels, the green color is more noticeable. Modern armor glass uses different processes in manufacture, and doping materials that were unavailable in WWII, and can be produced with much less noticeable color shift. But a thick block of armor glass is going to give a green tint.
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That looks excellent Colin.
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Thanks Richard!
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AFV Modeller goodies
Wheels are a perfect fit:
Wooden bench and seat painted and installed:
Some other minor bits and bobs attached, primed the gun mount, some fenders and muffler to install now.
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Spending some money! 
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Yeah…pricey bits!
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The interior is looking great.
Thanks Ralph!
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Big gun soon I bet.
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Pretty soon!
Radio with nice details and lots of itty bitty decals. Not sure why I bother, won’t be seen once I close it up, that goes for most of the driving cab…
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Will you wire it up?
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Nah, wont be seen unfortunately.
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Does the kit have the codrivers seat? I think it shouldn’t have one?
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Yes, it does have a co drivers seat, there shouldn’t be one?
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Front is on, can’t see the radiator or a lot of the engine bay now, but will keep the engine access hatches open so we can see as much as possible.
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I thought not. I think the visor is a solid piece of metal.
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While the visor was solid on factory produced SdKfz. 251/22, conversions were also issued to the units for converting 251/9, so some 251/22 show the standard vision port.
There are no clear pictures that I know of that clearly show whether the co-driver’s seat was present or not. However, the radio antenna is typically seen mounted in its normal position and indicates that the radio was in its normal position and thus it makes sense that a seat was there. As well, those vehicles that were field conversions of 251/9 probably still retained the seat.
The Ordnance Technical Intell Report from June 1945 on the 251/22 also notes the crew was 5 including a radio operator/assistance driver and specifically calls out the seating arrangement, which again suggests there was a seat for the co-driver in its normal position; and this captured vehicle did have the solid plate over the vision port.
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