Lee - afraid my soup comes in a tin courtesy of Heinz
John - not yet....
Si - may have strained the springs slightly
Rick - it would make a good paperweight
Steve -
Ian - as John says I do end up posting at odd times of day
Fernando - thanks for looking in. Mods are under way
it was almost impossible to photograph but I have added the rolled edge to the front mud guards and all along the track guards using micro rod - just about see the red line
I also cut the body panel detail into the front end
with the three pieces of chassis now joined I removed all the incorrect bits from between the sides and trimmed everything down to just leave the rails
I made a start on adding back some detail - chassis rail top flange added from micro strip
final drive housings were sawn off with the JLC razor saw and moved forward and up slightly to match the scale plans
this is required because the gearbox does not connect directly into the final drive, like the kit shows, but rather via a gear in a smaller housing on the side of the final drive housing
(former MM members may remember I did the same mods to the old inaccurate
Tamiya 1/35 Sd.7)
the smaller housing was added from a punched disk - I offset the plastic card in the punch so that the resulting punched bit had a chunk taken out of one side like a pacman to allow it to fit up to the final drive housing
starting to look a little more Sdkfz.7 like