One thing that is pretty bad with this kit is that it not only lacks cover and doors, but that the layout of the roof bars is incorrect, sitting next to each other instead of on top. I remedied that somewhat.
I carved away the flat cast-on rearlight and license plate. I guess they used a civilian postwar car as startoff point?
And here we see another glaring mistake; the fenderarrangement!
The horizontal parts is to long! The results in the sloping part to be at an angle that is too steep, leaving no room to add the stowagebox on top, which was omitted completely.
And I need to fix that handle too.
Added a shovel to make it more visually interesting.
Like the new exhaust too but I think it needs a bracket or two along the pipe under the passenger otherwise it will go missing on the next mound of dirt.
There is a bracket on the muffler and a bracket on the tailpipe right in front of the tire, where it turns outward. You can barely see them in the photo.
Bracket? I only see the differential behind the pipe. A bracket would be visible around the pipe, right? Unless it was welded to its back… But I will use artistic license and make one anyway, since the pipe is kind of easy to break off on the model.
Slowly but surely the GAZ is turning into something recognizable.
I made some headlightglasses and windscreenwipers. Those were still missing. Unfortunately the fabricstructure of the tissues became very apparant due to washes and drysbrushes.
The first series of weatheringtechniques were applied as well, just some washes and drybrushing here too.
If you can still take out the window glass, paint around its perimeter with a black felt-tipped marker to imitate the gasket and remove the reflexion.
Peter
