Ok so I finally have the mojo back and have found some inspiration. I have always loved the lines of the M4 HST, there is just something about the vehicle that has interested me from the first time I saw it.
Well now my wishes have come true and Hobby Boss have released a kit, so I get to finally build one. I have decided to combine it with a Pak43 from AFV club and whip out a small dio. For our local competition Wheels and Tracks in March.
So off we go. As I am not one for SBS's, mainly just due to a lack of time for pics, I have managed to take the pics at a fair distance down the build track. The HST while partially assembled will receive a fair bit more attention before it gets hit with some paint.
The kit boxes.
First the Pak43 which is almost complete. This is almost OOB, and will have some tool clamps straps etc added eventually. I used the brass bolt head set AFV club sell, as it was much easier than trying to cut the tiny plastic ones off the sprues. There are still some detail bits to add to the kit at present.
Now the M4 HST was another story. It is one of those kits that fits in the good kit category. Overall nice crisp detail and it looks the goods, but you end up with those niggly little misaligned parts, mold slips and ejectors in bad places. Just the sort of frustrating niggles that make modelling interesting, but make you think with a little more care in the mold making process it could have been a great kit. This one will have a pile of scratch details added, and some new tracks from the spares box. You will see what I mean by bad ejectors in the pictures.
Oh and thanks to Anders and his posts on figure building now I might give it a whirl....
Regards
Mic B
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