Made the branches with a rattle can glue, Noch leaves on seafoam.
I think we’re done. Maybe some wet road.
It was a nice build
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Fabulous!
Screwing around with PE fuel can mounts while simultaneously watching STL vs LAD, NYY vs HOU, CAA vs BAL and WAS vs CIN.
Sent a hook into outer space earlier:
What it should look like 
What it looks like 
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Fantastic camo job, the base colour gives it a very realistic look, nice work👍
Watto.
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Rear end is done but wasn’t without problems.
The PE fuel can racks and cans absolutely would not fit between the kit mounting brackets on the rear glacis.
Likewise the spring loaded searchlight storage boxes would not fit between their mounting brackets.
Removed about 4 coils from the RH spring (with a sanding stick) for the storage boxes and used three (instead of four) mounts for the fuel can racks by omitting one of the center mounts.
Fuel cans are taped in place.
Last photo is interesting because the crew member is using a hydraulic pump to raise the engine cover.
Pictures for discussion purposes only
Edited to add picture
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So the other night I stripped all of that old paint off. cleaned the whole thing up and I’m preparing to start back in on it. UPDATE. Tonight I repainted the air intakes and primed the detached left wing. Tomorrow I plan on painting the outer edges of the wings ( white) I used a nice mix of 50 percent Isopropyl and 50 percent Tamiya white. Hopefully I can duplicate that mix tomorrow for the wing edges.
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I was trying to show fuel can racks mountings.
There aren’t a lot of pictures of the backs of these things. You have a keen eye, Frank.
That is actually a prototype of the Raketenjagdpanzer 2, Tank Destroyer, Missile, developed about the same time by Thyssen-Henschel and Hanomag.
There are actually three different variants in that series of pictures.
Anyhow a bit more progress this morning.
Primer
This is the kit main gun barrel. The AM barrel I have was designed for the Revell kit.
Paint will next I think.
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Really like that effect!
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Today the big bird came together …
Could be better , but okay. I need so many hours for the engines and the wing profile . Happy to come forward , i was 4 days sick the last week and cancelled the complete offroad trip for this weekend .
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Ridiculous TZG 90 Mobile Target Detection System.
This was suggested to be mounted, sans tripod, in front the commander’s hatch directly behind the drivers hatch on the Beobachtungspanzer.
It looked too goofy and there weren’t any photographs of it in my Tankograd reference.
Definitely ready for AK Gelbolive
Edited to add:
Leftovers from two kits. Lots of multiples.
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This evening some work on the cuppola (M551 Sheridan)
I just needed the smell of glue 
ROTB Ryefield TTS Gulf war with Masterclub tracks)
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I spent some time today working on the front suspension on the rig that will be hauling the mobile drill
What a treat. It turns out the base model kit came with twin steer, in this case, at least one gear, pitman arm and drag link for each side. But as you can see, not much else from the base kit is used in the front end of this. Several materials and small rivets and bolts we used. While I don’t have lots of tools, I happily do have one 1.3mm nut driver to use on these ridiculously small nuts and bolts. And, as mentioned, this has twin steer, well, I got to do all of it twice! 
And for scale, this is indeed a big truck, which looks tiny next to the the big red truck:
It almost looks like a smaller scale - even considering I added a fair amount of length to the frame rails. In addition to also being a 6x6, the new project also has the control arms mounted to the front axle, just below the leaf springs - at least I knew how to do this.
OK, happy model building,
Cheers
Nick
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Looks good!
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From her headquarters upstairs in the master suite, the boss has decreed that yard work will be performed today, before the rains come for the first three days of next week, despite the fact that she can’t put any weight knee for another three weeks.
This means I need to get crackin’ and soon.
This also meant that I was shooting paint in my bunker by 0630 this morning ….my newish paint booth is the poop.
Legal pads have a use, after all.
This is the “late” shade of Gelbolive.
AK real color 087. I should’a used this shade on my earlier wacky M113 builds instead of RC 086. More green and less German Brown as @BootsDMS says. Oh well, hindsight is always 20-20.
Off I go into the wild green yonder….
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Egads she’s making you work outside? Shooting paint at Oh-dark-thirty. Damn. That color came out really nice though. They really look great.
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