The old kit’s shovel is actually decent. Felt it would be OK to use with a pair of flattened beading wire clasps.
Everyone probably know this little trick for fitting PE or wire parts that develop “spring” tension when being fitted. I really like the Small Shop’s The Bug for the ole “clamp & slid”.
Release PE folder and super glue metal part in place.
So which way should the spade point? I had to check references.
On many of these earlier Tigers, there’s a pair of wingnuts by the bow MG. For discussion only, Achtung Panzer #6 provides an example.
Surprisingly, OTM missed this detail. PE would have been ideal for this detail. Time to cobble up a custom artistic licensed fiddle bit.
OTM PE wing nuts, a PE rectangle cut in half from random PE fret, and styrene rod.
I taped over the PE rectangle before cutting it in half. That prevented either half from launching into oblivion. Glue together parts and install.
Yes, the scratch wing nut fiddle bits are slightly out of position. Left one tweezer lauched to the current spot. Decided to go with and attached other one accordingly. Sometimes that’s the calculated risk with CA on a small part in Wade’s World.
