Hope you don't mind me coming in with a partially built kit with a few pics to show progress to date, there is still a fair way to go.
This kit was released as a re box with side skirts and a few other parts in 2010 and I purchased the kit from a stall at the Waddington (Lincoln) airshow the same year so it is time it got started. MiniArt kits are a love hate thing with some modellers, I love them. They can be (are, let's be honest) over engineered. Why use two parts when twelve will do? They can also be a bit brittle in the plastic department, though this kit is not to bad in that department. But, enough, let's see the pics.
The biggest fault with this kit has to be the visible ejector pin marks. I suppose that the ones in the turret and the recoil guard would not be an issue buttoned up. However there is just enough internal detail to tempt you into open hatches so they need to be dealt with.
First up, the gun
As you can see, quite a few parts to build a relatively small component. There is a beautifully detailed end cap that is then hidden forever in the mantelet!
A very nice representation of the radio comes next which sits in the back of the turret once painted up and the photo etch guard is fitted over the front
Then the complete turret internals. Nothing glued up as the ejector pin marks have to be dealt with
Before that, I decided to tackle the hull detail. First the drivers station, not massively detailed but enough to see through the hatches.
Then onto the hull top. It starts like this
Loads of ejector pin marks that may or may not be visible when completed so got dealt with just in case using super glue and talcum powder.
Followed by lots of little bits and a few photo etch parts.
The exhaust is about seven parts and then you put a big cover over it!
Then, nearly seventy parts, just on the upper hull, later this is where I am now
Sorry for the long winded introduction
This kit was released as a re box with side skirts and a few other parts in 2010 and I purchased the kit from a stall at the Waddington (Lincoln) airshow the same year so it is time it got started. MiniArt kits are a love hate thing with some modellers, I love them. They can be (are, let's be honest) over engineered. Why use two parts when twelve will do? They can also be a bit brittle in the plastic department, though this kit is not to bad in that department. But, enough, let's see the pics.
The biggest fault with this kit has to be the visible ejector pin marks. I suppose that the ones in the turret and the recoil guard would not be an issue buttoned up. However there is just enough internal detail to tempt you into open hatches so they need to be dealt with.
First up, the gun
As you can see, quite a few parts to build a relatively small component. There is a beautifully detailed end cap that is then hidden forever in the mantelet!
A very nice representation of the radio comes next which sits in the back of the turret once painted up and the photo etch guard is fitted over the front
Then the complete turret internals. Nothing glued up as the ejector pin marks have to be dealt with
Before that, I decided to tackle the hull detail. First the drivers station, not massively detailed but enough to see through the hatches.
Then onto the hull top. It starts like this
Loads of ejector pin marks that may or may not be visible when completed so got dealt with just in case using super glue and talcum powder.
Followed by lots of little bits and a few photo etch parts.
The exhaust is about seven parts and then you put a big cover over it!
Then, nearly seventy parts, just on the upper hull, later this is where I am now
Sorry for the long winded introduction
but worry not, there will be more 
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