I’m diving straight in as any questions about final scheme can wait till I’m at a later stage with it, the interior has much more work than the exterior.
so far minimal clean up, I have just built an Airfix 1/72 scale S boat from 1975, so I’m spoilt with this, but lets see how welll it all goes together.
and just to head off any mutterings of interior, whats the point, you won’t see it when it’s done, well you will, on here, so this isn’t going to be one of those empty shells like you see on the anti tank ranges.
there are several paint options on the instruction sheet and I’m keen on both as they faced off against British Canadian Forces in the hell that was Normandy.
my choice comes down to side skirts or visible running gear, the skirts are brass, so battle damaging them will be very do able, yes I’m with the skirts.
Looking good… Makes sense in having the skirts on… Brass will allow for more better controlled and more realistic battle damage. What’s the plastic like ? The one miniart kit I have done it was quite soft ?
yes the plastic on a Grant I made of theirs was quite soft, this seems to be ok though, well moulded in solid grey plastic. Made the floor up and learned that finding parts from the dozens of sprues is a bit time consuming as not all are numbered sprues and those that are the number is tiny.
so I spent a lot of time identifying sprues from the instruction sheet, applying a masking tape label with a number of the sprue frame in ball point pen.
Oh David, have the crew been liberating Jewellery again, I’ve told them to stop, but you know what these Lads are like among the ruins of Caen, they think it’s finders keepers especially as the RAF did all that damage, not the Panzerwaffe.
Ive taken the liberty of pre spraying all the components on the frames in either grey or white primer, depending on if they are outside or inside, having said that the engine, gearbox parts will be next on the construction phase, they are black/metallic.
Interesting find – an extremely premature release by the Luftwaffe to ignite Portsmouth/Southampton? Or maybe from a shot-down/disintegrating Heinkel/Junkers?
A remarkable catch! Very interesting and unique! Every time I’ve ever been fishing I’ve caught nothing - no fish, no bombs, no souvenirs - just wet worms on my hook. So I find your discovery most incredible! Congratulations!
trying again with the track pins, if you trim the links really tight they fit together far better and allow the pins to go in in line, not easy, but it works.
this is one serious kit, on the difficulty level of I’d say that M29 Weasel i built on here last year, tolerances are tight and there is no room for inaccuracy.
