Nominal progress but I’ve postponed painting to do a few more separate assemblies prior. The parts employed in these assemblies were from Steps 7, 8 and 10.
The large group of objects behind where the crew cab will be is not glued down so therefore removable for painting. From the looks of things the rocket pod assembly may also have to be assembled in pieces with parts painted separately. The actual rocket pack has to be assembled, painted and decaled before it can be loaded onto/into the pod carrier. For what originally looked like near to a simple quick build is definitely showing a surprise or two. 
Cheers,
Jan 
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Still no painting done but subassembly construction has continued. My logic is to build each “segment” so that these can have necessary areas painted prior to further larger assembly. Some of these sections would prove almost impossible to totally paint properly if totally assembled. There’s just too many nooks and crannies that would be mostly unreachable for proper painting.
That said I have dry fit the control cab and placed in on the chassis so one can get an idea of where it will reside. Similarly I assembled the lower part of the rocket pod mount and placed in at its approximate location. I’ve yet to decide whether to paint the rocket pod parts on the sprue before assembling or after. The centre mechanical segment is press fit into its mounting point but will be painted unmounted. Here’s a few images of things was they stand:
That’s about all for now! 
Cheers,
Jan
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@Jan,
You are far more motivated than I am and the build is coming along nicely. Each of the parts has a lot of detail included so it will look interesting when finished in its paint scheme. Keep it coming Jan.
~ Eddy 
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