I love your build Patrick!!! It's as bonkers - if not more - than some of my weird German fantasy tanks... :D
Am I correct in thinking that this is a resin cast of an old no longer available kit? I seem to remember seeing this kit when I was a young boy in a hobby catalogue that I was reading every night dreaming of the day when I could afford to order all the things I wanted...
My youngest son saw a Manga resin kit he wanted that's been a pain in the a.. to glue due to very frail parts and a terrible quality of the cast pieces...
Every time I try to make some progress with it so he can eventually paint it one day it stinks of epoxy and my fingers are stuck together with CA glue!
You've obviously mastered gluing resin!
Thanks Jens, for your comments. Yes it's a copy of an original Monogram kit (shown above) of I understand the 1970's! Yes Resin is difficult to joining satisfactorily . We have here in the UK a smelly. sometimes stringy tube glue called Bostick, that I use on my various resins from 1/43rd upwards. The instructions tell you to coat each surface and wait ten minutes and then it works like compact adhesive, BUT........... you only get one chance to get the parts in the right place AND ..........you can't put too much on in case it squeezes out of the joint when you do stick it together. Another BUT is.......if you put too little on it soaks into the resin and dries in no time!
I also try to use, superglue and the other called 'Zap-A-Gap' which as you have mentioned is CA based! So it's continually suck it and see!
But the upside is with this one is quality casting although as I think I've mentioned earlier, with most resin kits the casting can be both a bit large to fit and a bit thick in places, but to me that's the joy of carefully shaving a bit off here and a bit off there and hey presto it gradually comes together!
And again as you say 'Bonkers' and I love Bonkers!