Yep, the other bane of the armour modeller: big side skirts that hide all your work. After a while you learn to recognise what parts probably won’t be visible, so, as Richard implies, you stop bothering to put them on, or if they do need to go on, to at least not clean all the seams up anymoreAnd in a flash, all that hard work scraping, sanding, adjusting & gluing around 80 parts is hidden forever
On many tanks they don’t, in which case the only two options are to fit the wheels and the skirts, then paint the wheels in place, or (my preferred one) to leave both wheels and skirts off, then attach both after painting.I double, triple, quadruple checked that the roadwheels still go on with these covers in place, and they do, just!
Evening Andy,
You're gonna be fine and master this big mother. Whatever paint scheme you decide on, it will be a cracker too!!! I'll sit behind the tea drinkers and enjoy your work. Where I come from we are fond of something a bit stronger and at my work, we have our own beer,
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I work for Quadix and It's a .25 liter bottle which is a nice thirst quencher at lunch (unless I have to make a delivery). It does beat the heck out of tea and I like tea with milk! I can't wait to see how you work your magic on this one Scratchy……….
Prost
Allen
It’s probably more solid now that it’s glued to the turret, so you may be able to clean it up more with a sharp blade if you’re careful. I often do this with things like hatch handles, which are often too small to easily get all of the attachment point off if the part is loose.Antenna was as fiddly as I'd feared, especially since 6 of the sprue gates were on the thinnest section. Cleaned up as much as I dare. If they are still visible when painted I'll throw something over them like an impromptu washing line!
It’s the horn, yes. You can also insert the tip of a knife and ream it out with that, but you have to be careful not to cut into the side or to leave a ragged edge inside the hollowed-out bit.And this little thing looks like an air horn. It was a solid lump so it got drilled out as much as I could then opened out with a round file.
Good plan.Will have another dry fit with it all taped in place before I commit to glue.
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