Andy T
SMF Supporter
A quick one this, which I'm building to put in the back of the Faun L900.
It's a 2019 kit so very well engineered and easy to put together but with more parts than I was expecting, which was a nice surprise
It went together very quickly indeed, however I watched through a build of this to see if there was anything that might catch me out and the guy approached it differently than I normally would, much more as the Tamiya instructions advise, so I gave it a go.
This meant painting the wheels and link & length tracks before assembly, which I actually found a bit easier. Having a bit of paint build up on the track links helped them press fit into place, so I could pretty much dry assemble everything then go around with quick setting TET afterwards.
That left me at this stage
I managed to lose one of the front tow hooks, so whittled something out of styrene to emulate the stub that might remain after a hook had broken off. I also thinned the track guards a bit and bent them as much as I dare to show a bit of damage.
The cupola goes together in a rather strange way out of 14 pieces in all. If it wasn't a Tamiya kit I might have been concerned but it all slotted together very well in the end, except for a gluey finger mark right on the top!
With the construction complete I masked up the lower portions and splashed on some primer in readiness for a paint delivery, hopefully tomorrow.
The exhaust has been painted seperatly and I found a bit of stowage to add
It's a 2019 kit so very well engineered and easy to put together but with more parts than I was expecting, which was a nice surprise
It went together very quickly indeed, however I watched through a build of this to see if there was anything that might catch me out and the guy approached it differently than I normally would, much more as the Tamiya instructions advise, so I gave it a go.
This meant painting the wheels and link & length tracks before assembly, which I actually found a bit easier. Having a bit of paint build up on the track links helped them press fit into place, so I could pretty much dry assemble everything then go around with quick setting TET afterwards.
That left me at this stage
I managed to lose one of the front tow hooks, so whittled something out of styrene to emulate the stub that might remain after a hook had broken off. I also thinned the track guards a bit and bent them as much as I dare to show a bit of damage.
The cupola goes together in a rather strange way out of 14 pieces in all. If it wasn't a Tamiya kit I might have been concerned but it all slotted together very well in the end, except for a gluey finger mark right on the top!
With the construction complete I masked up the lower portions and splashed on some primer in readiness for a paint delivery, hopefully tomorrow.
The exhaust has been painted seperatly and I found a bit of stowage to add
.. easier to nab the biscuits before everyone else that way
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