Good afternoon all
So I'm off on holiday for half-term with the kids and for a well deserved break, and so have started this now my Armourfast House is finished. I've made surprisingly speedy progress for me and now have the main sub assembles finished.
Given the scale and the age, to my extremely untrained eye at least, it's not a bad looking kit with a reasonable amount detail and has gone together pretty well - remember it is only 1/100**.
There were a couple of points where instructions weren't 100% clear and there been some very minor flash, and the odd fit issue that required a bit of fettling but the main problems were down to my clumsiness and not following the instructions properly on the gun and rocket pod mountings. Fortunately, for some reason and completely unnecessarily, the kit doubles up on the very parts I messed up - clearly they had me in mind!!!
You can have the doors open or shut but to make my life as easy as possible at the paint stage I'm going with buttoned up; besides there's not a lot to see inside in any case.
There are some very fine parts that I've left off for the time being and until it's buttoned up, as they're asking to be snapped off if fitted now. I'll brush paint the inside but probably AB the outside paint job.
ACW as usual.
Andrew
** Optivisor essential...... :tired: :crying:
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Sprue shots
Where I've got to so far
Junior was surprised at how big these were. Even at 1/100, it's quit a bit longer than his 1/72 Valentine - albeit I know it wasn't a very big tank. As you can see the rota blades are 14.5cm long.
A very loose dry fit.....
So I'm off on holiday for half-term with the kids and for a well deserved break, and so have started this now my Armourfast House is finished. I've made surprisingly speedy progress for me and now have the main sub assembles finished.
Given the scale and the age, to my extremely untrained eye at least, it's not a bad looking kit with a reasonable amount detail and has gone together pretty well - remember it is only 1/100**.
There were a couple of points where instructions weren't 100% clear and there been some very minor flash, and the odd fit issue that required a bit of fettling but the main problems were down to my clumsiness and not following the instructions properly on the gun and rocket pod mountings. Fortunately, for some reason and completely unnecessarily, the kit doubles up on the very parts I messed up - clearly they had me in mind!!!
You can have the doors open or shut but to make my life as easy as possible at the paint stage I'm going with buttoned up; besides there's not a lot to see inside in any case.
There are some very fine parts that I've left off for the time being and until it's buttoned up, as they're asking to be snapped off if fitted now. I'll brush paint the inside but probably AB the outside paint job.
ACW as usual.
Andrew
** Optivisor essential...... :tired: :crying:
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Sprue shots
Where I've got to so far
Junior was surprised at how big these were. Even at 1/100, it's quit a bit longer than his 1/72 Valentine - albeit I know it wasn't a very big tank. As you can see the rota blades are 14.5cm long.
A very loose dry fit.....
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