This on I bought yesterday just to see if DML has improved their 72-scale family. Of course, favourable reviews helped in my decision. I want to paint this in early 3-tone camo, pics anyone? There is lot of decals in kit but according to instructions none are used!!!
AS this was going to be quite OOB experience I started with front. Pieces go together quite well if you manage to keep all parts in box. I didn't with one front towing part which flew into void or something :angry: First glued MG station which had a tricky positioning but box art to the rescue
Front plate went in place easily.
I wanted to use PE screen for intake so some very crude interior must be built.
Luckily Aber provides some good reference in 1/35 scale so this was easy.
Rear plate is missing a hatch! So one has to be scribed. I'm not sure if it had to be round or square so I decided to scribe a square one.
Some scribing templates has found their way to my tool box so finding a right one wasn't too difficult.
Plate secured to table with Tamiya tape and needle ready to do the job. Luckily those chubby fingers wasn't in the way :lol:
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Scribing was done in sections as there were no big enough template to do it one time.
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Scribing done. It is not totally perfect but good enough for me. Sorry about the poor photo quality.
More of this later,
Niko
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