A tractor needs something to do. A resin water cart, from Plusmodel has also been built, to be hitched behind the tractor. This will provide a nice contrast between the old fashioned cart and the tractor.
I only modified the drawbar: it has been shortened and a towing eye has been added by a local Eischenschmiede.
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Lovely work, Erwin!
Thank you very much Angel. It really means a lot to hear that from you… 
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So after quite a bit of holding, squeezing, cutting, and clamping, I got out of the operating room… Only kidding. I have the hull together now and the front compartment is done. This kit is absolutely a hoot. I have to agree with Mead that it is a little bit tedious, or laborious, or something. I spend a lot of time thinking, planning, subassembling, painting. But it is SO COOL!
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The wishful (or is it jealous) farmer has taken shape too. A old MK35 kit. The right hand came mangled out of the package, without fingers, so I had to replace it. I also turned the head to gape at the tractor.
And I want to add a little wildlife so an attempt has been made to create something that must resemble a blackbird from putty. This will be placed atop the watertank.
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Well tish. I’ve come to the point where I put the wall into the engine well and now those tubes are each about 1.5mm short…
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As it turns out, the diameter of those tubes at that point is precisely 3/32". What luck!
I wonder if this is an accidental carry over from other instructions. The 1.5mm in my T-54 instructions were bang on, but there are various other mislabeled parts and missing instructions for guide holes and such
Yes, I wonder about that also.
I have come across things missing also. Working on the fenders and see some parts are not on the parts map at all. The parts highlighted in blue are missing from my kit.
I’ve started on my t-54 and I’ve noticed that some of the parts numbers were for a previous kit and not updated. I don’t know if that helps in your case. But I downloaded the instructions for 3 different kits in trying to figure out which kit I really needed to get all the features of my pictured model. That has helped me on two occasions find parts - they are in the kit, just mislabelled in the instructions.
Yeah I did the same, looked at other kits instructions and checked my parts trees and didn’t find the parts, I will look again though.
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In my case it was the torsion bars. They were labelled for the previous wheel set (spider wheels) rather than the wheels in the kit (starfish wheels). I think there was something else too, but I don’t recall specifically.
The trouble with using sprues from other kits - they never check all the parts needed are there. Dragon’s Jagdpanzer IV L/60 (A ) was released without the rear hull plate. It mysteriously appeared on the vehicle between steps where it was not there in one step, and then it was in place the next, without any instruction to add it - and yes, it was not even in the kit. You needed that single part from a full sprue from another kit, they just did not realise this. Fortunately, I have the Panzer IV gun tank kit that came with two options…
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You didn’t get the version with the Magic Backs?
(Grabs coat and heads rapidly for the door…)
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This is the one with Magic Backs - they just have a vanishing trick.
The later one came with a non-magical back that did not vanish, but it had a smell, probably their new fangled Dog S**t tracks…
For me it was two very small parts that took forever to locate. The offending parts where two plugs for the fender mounted fuel tanks. They are supposed to be on sprue Ke according to the instructions but are actually on TB, I barely found them with how small and nondescript they are. Mistook them for two sprue attachment points at first
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Well I found the parts labeled as WK1, they are on the UE sprue.
Just the track links now hey…
There’s extras from the Z sprue so I’m good.
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