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Ok, did some more this morning.
I started the upper hull. There's a fair few pieces, some very small which need placing on the upper hull. I've struggled today with the glue, and resorted to squeezing a blob on some acetate, and then using the point of a cocktail stick to apply it. Getting on better that way. Dunno why I didn't do this before.:rolleyes:
Then I made a cock up!:mad: I was affixing one of the front winching tabs and as I went to dip the very edge on the glue, the tweezers pinged and dropped it straight in the glue!
A certain four letter word was repeated for about two minutes as I desperately tried to clean up the glue before it melted the tab! Oh well, it's not horrendous. I'll just weather that one a little more!
The light guards are two,piece, and again, my tweezers are letting me down. (So I'm off to the hobby shop to purchase new tweezers!!) one side went ok, but the other side is a little lop sided (see photo) but hey, this tank HAS seen action, so I guess a 7.62 pinged off it at some point and bent it!
Finally got the upper hull done, and I like the way
Tamiya make the bottom hull attach with rubber plugs and a tab so you can take the hull apart later. There's also a battery compartment.....excuse my ignorance, but would that be for someone wanting to add lights?
So final bit this morning is the turret build and main gun, and I am suffering from MGB...
Main Gun Bends. The two halves of the centre section glued together, held with tape and pegs (this was a struggle for me, even though it had little pin locators, they didn't help!!) and then the rear elevator unit fitted together, and then affixed to the centre section, it didn't stay inline at all!! Had a bit of Brewers droop!
So I took it off, filed the locator, marked the barrel where it was and refitted it back in, and pulled it up a little to straighten it.
Taped up and pegged, so now that's all drying for today.
Tomorrow I'll begin the turret furniture, then it's time to begin paint.
I'm also going to pick up some proper primer today, as the Vallejo stuff I don't trust anymore.