Removed excessive rough texture, removed kit welds and added styrene strip for weld seams. The lower weld ended up slightly too high and should be lower.
Couldn’t get a better focus on weld texture.
Chopped the hingle tops (yellow) as they were more than 2x over sized. Found a random PE part in the spare parts bin that made a decent loaders periscope (blue) cover. Styrene strip used for the periscope. Eight recessed bolt holes (red) added on turret roof.
3 Grandtline bolts added…
Sidebar…easily the very best tweezers for small parts I’ve used. Lightyears better than Xuron, Tamiya, Xacto etc for small parts. Check out the precision hand ground tip. All eight bolts placed with zero tweezer launches.
Bolts in place. They should be completely counter sunk but for detail and highlight purposes, I wanted them slightly raised.
Retextured turret roof.
Edit - learned the bolt details are incorrect, see below for clarification of correct detail & picture.
Edit - New bottles from StarBond arrived. The small bottle of StarBond Black is 4 years old and still good. The cap finally cracked from the frequent used. Rather than replace the StarBond Black with new CA, I just replaced the bottle and moved the label accordingly.
I find StarBond amazing as I’ve never had a bottle of other brand CA’s last six months. Some might says that’s a fluke. I don’t think so as my other bottle of StarBond CA also required a new cap and is also four years old and still going strong.
