@Rob G.;
"Mirage kit with only a few...." Yeah. IF most guy's first go with the girls was typically like one of these as a first..., I'd be willing to bet we wouldn't have half so many people on Earth as we do!
But I guess I'm off for a trip across to that Channel!
LoL! I'm a old re-tread in the styrene world - built some planes back in the early 70's, bailed out in '75, returned to the hobby in '08. It's been armor ever since. First kit outta the gate was this Polish kit of a wierd little French thing that those Germans had later plopped a set of bombardment rockets (28cm wurfrahmen) on top of...
I've posted a pic of this first little go over on Armorama - Campaigns - "Under a different flag" page 6 Panzerbob01 post... And yeah. It was a BEAR. I got scars to prove it!
I don't yet have a handle on posting any of my pics on this site and thread, else I would!
@David:
OK - bitty tracks - take two: You also got a short shot on the molding? Yeap. I did, too! Blah. But the kit did have several extra links (I didn't paste any spares on - I doubted then and still that the Germans did that with these things, as they were for local use only and I never saw a pic with such mounted. But there could have been one done thusly somewhere..!
) and, as it turned out, more than enough to fix up a couple of those short shots. So I think you'll be OK - just clip off the crappy end and add on a "spare" link or 2.
IF you go to the above Armorama page, you'll see what I did for that first UE. For the tow rope, I used some heavy cotton "button-hole" thread (remember, this was a bitty thing and pics that show tow ropes show what really looks like something of the maybe 1/2 US inch diam sort... in 1/35 scale perhaps only 1/70 or so inch - or around 0.014 inch...) with 0.005 styrene sheet wrapped and glued around the loop to represent the metal sleaves. I painted the thread with some acrylics (black with a little rust) followed by some chalk pastel dusting. The mounting clips were made from strips of 0.005 styrene, with the thread coiled in a loop and slipped over the 3 clips "like the real thing". After a few times around with clips breaking off, I finally resorted to super-gluing it down.
I had dreampt of having it actually fit in place like a real rope- but I hadn't read hose bitty plastic clips into my plan!
And yeah, if you do look at my pic, you'll see that there are some seams and stuff... 
. Really blew it around that box edge (the corner frames were welded together and no real gaps to be seen...) and up front
. But on the (maybe) up-side, you can easily add in some details like the little fender gussets and braces on the box, etc. And I found that those little cupola-caps had slits in them... I was rather crude with them but, hey, we are talking little east-block bears, dancing or otherwise, and recently-lost virginity here, aren't we!
PS: I like to scratch and fiddle, and almost never indulge in PE. So my mods are all "old school" styrene, etc. Not, you understand, that PE is a bad thing. I'm just CHEAP!
And I'm with you on the "do the series" thing! And also on that Tamiya kit and plans for it! I plan to park a Dragon 3.7cm PaK on top in the "first-draft incarnation" where the Germans tied the whole gun, wheels and all, on (France, 1940). The RPM/Mirage kit is of the later "version" where some rear-area shop fit some sort of swivel mount on to the top deck... there's maybe 3 pics of this thing out there. Bet it was neither common nor successful! But it is kinda cool (and of course likely another little bear) , and I'll build (fight with) it
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Carry on! Your UE is going to look SWEET! Bob