It’s been a good model building day for me with about six hours in the hobbyroom!
In addition to the track cable there were two other potential problems. I created them by chopping the molded in fan/ventilator housing top off of the upper hull and chopping off the molded in jack block.
The housing top being being tapered and round seemed likely to be a problem. However, one of the crew seats from the 1989 Tamiya Tiger worked out with the back removed and a tapered edge.
For the jack block OTM’s instructions are get a 1/8 × 3/8 × 3/8 inch (roughly 3mm ×10mm ×10mm) block of wood and use that.
WTF?!
I don’t have wood blocks laying around. I build plastic models not wooden ones.
Chopped & Laminated nine strips of 1/8 inch (3.2mm) Evergreen sheet strip together. Scribed marks into the block, calling it wood grain.
Decided to make a jack block holder out scrap PE bits.
I positioned the base bits on folded tape. This lifts when slightly off the work surface so I don’t accidentally glue them to the black acrylic tile.
Roasted the OTM PE bands in a flame so the annealed PE would fold on like aluminum foil. OTM PE handle added.
A missing weld seam running front to back on top of the upper hull was added with plastic rod.
Sum of the scrap PE.
