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I'm wanting to further my practice of hairspray chipping and heavy weathering, so picked up this little kit from John as I think it should lend itself well to that. There'll also be a small base, but unless I find where the figures hat went to it may be driverless.
There's not much to greet you inside the box, just two crisply moulded sprue, a couple of decals, some metal foil stickers, and a fold out instruction sheet.
After about an hours work it was already looking like a 'dozer, with minimal clean up and everything fitting together perfectly
I've seen a few of these built and one thing that put me off was the massively oversized hydraulic hoses and I'd planned on replacing them with thin wire, but then I found the reference picture below. I guess Tamiya got it right after all.
So I carried on with the assembly, but took note of the reinforcement on the hoses and had a go at recreating it by wrapping 0.1mm copper wire around them. Not exactly authentic, but gives the impression, which is more than enough for me.
Everything was just snapped together at this point so I stripped it back down into sub assemblies for a coat of Mr Primer Surfacer
As I wanted to chip through the final colour to reveal a rusty surface it got an all over coat of Hull Red, which I then progressively lightened with red & yellow to give a variety of rusty tones. It's bit OTT as it stands, but will hopefully look okay in the end.
I'll let the harden up overnight and hopefully start some chipping tomorrow.
There's not much to greet you inside the box, just two crisply moulded sprue, a couple of decals, some metal foil stickers, and a fold out instruction sheet.
After about an hours work it was already looking like a 'dozer, with minimal clean up and everything fitting together perfectly
I've seen a few of these built and one thing that put me off was the massively oversized hydraulic hoses and I'd planned on replacing them with thin wire, but then I found the reference picture below. I guess Tamiya got it right after all.
So I carried on with the assembly, but took note of the reinforcement on the hoses and had a go at recreating it by wrapping 0.1mm copper wire around them. Not exactly authentic, but gives the impression, which is more than enough for me.
Everything was just snapped together at this point so I stripped it back down into sub assemblies for a coat of Mr Primer Surfacer
As I wanted to chip through the final colour to reveal a rusty surface it got an all over coat of Hull Red, which I then progressively lightened with red & yellow to give a variety of rusty tones. It's bit OTT as it stands, but will hopefully look okay in the end.
I'll let the harden up overnight and hopefully start some chipping tomorrow.