Interesting day today. Started off pondering on what to do.
First, was fit the road wheels, easy peasy thanks to poly whatsit things!! Popped on a treat. Next was disappear and rob one of SWIMBO's cotton reels. Nato Green naturally!
Then! Place the tracks around the road wheels, ably assisted by a few pieces of tape, a pair of tweezers and some fiddling!
With the tracks in kinda the right place, SWIMBO's cotton reel came into play. With help from the tweezers, the tracks ends were pulled gently together to tighten things up a wee bit.
Next came the side armour, bit fiddly to be honest, they came away from the hull more than a few times. So out clamps. (I removed the ends as they only made the clamps jump into the air. Finally got them in place though with only a small amount of touching up needed!
Next was placing the two jerry cans in their stowage. Still need to fit the retaining bar!!I I also kept one sand coloured and the water can the usual black.
I also took time out to touch up the tracks, now the links were in position I noticed some paint missing in-between the individual links so remedied that. Whilst I was tinkering with paint I added black to the end of the barrel, well, both ends!!
The smoke dispenser caps were also painted.
Changed the needle in the
airbrush to a 0.2 and played around with touching up a few places I missed and also the couple of places I messed up fitting the side armour.
By midday it looked like this;
Still a bit to do - then I'll start on reading up an weathering.