I had never heard the term, “mechanical pencil” always came to mind. But I will be using it from now on. Reminds me of the words crockery and cutlery that people in the US are not accustomed to. I got some really strange looks from waiters when using them. 
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OK, got cha
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It looks really nice and I like the changes you made to it
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Cheers,
Ralph
Life once again gets in the way so no further progress on the Jackson.
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Sorry still no progress on the Jackson but have been “work’n on the (my) railroad!”
Here is a period photo I found today on line:
Question: Anyone know just what that shaped, port side rack/basket was designed to hold???
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Tank, not sure why you would say to apply mud and THEN add the tracks? First the suspension needs to move to some degree while adding the tracks. Then I would think if applied first the dried affects “mud” would often end up where it doesn’t belong between rollers, road wheels and tracks. Finally - that’s not how it happens in real life.
It is a bracket for the foul weather driver’s hood
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I find working through and behind the bogies and tracks to add mud to the hull to be less than ideal, your mileage may vary of course.
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I split the difference and treat the mud as a two-step process. There’s the base layer that goes on before the bogies, and a second pass after the bogies are in place. (And the bogies also get mud while still off the tank.)
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OK, I can see that though a delicate item like that I would think would be stowed inside. Perhaps that is why we always seethe rack empty. One spray of machine gun fire and it is gone.
It was on the Sherman, on top of the transmission to be precise. Going by the M10’s TM, there would be plenty of room in that to put it there too, but late in the war these hoods began to be stowed outside — it’s what the rack on the right side of the M26’s turret is for too, for example.
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