The catwalks are now on:
I also removed the tow bar on the left and shortened it by 14 mm, because it was pointed out to me that the BARV carried two lengths, one for British and the other for American vehicles.
The bumper on the front doesn’t fit:
The reason is that the top of the curve doesn’t fit against the nose, which I solved by sawing a little bit off. Once the glue dries, I’ll have to add some more welds here to fill the gap that resulted.
A bit of thought showed why it doesn’t fit: it’s made for the three-piece transmission cover, and I installed the one-piece version. As you can see here, it fits perfectly well on the three-piece:
This is slightly odd, though, because Resicast tells you to use the one-piece one or, if you have one in your spares box, the three-piece. This suggests to me that the Tasca version of the base kit only had the one-piece version, so it’s odd that the Resicast part is made for the three-piece. The Asuka release has both, though.