Hi, Just a progress report on this kit. It is turning out to be everything I had hoped it would be. Very nice, very nice indeed. Lots and lots of great detail, but some of the parts are quite small! So one has to be VERY careful in handling them. I am spraying mine a panzer grey.
Have the lower carriage all put together and painted and it looks great.
But like all kits there is most likely a small glitch in it someplace or other (something I've come to expect, if not in their kit proper, than in their instructions). But, nothing is perfect. And I think I might have found one here in steps -6 and-7. You will notice there there is a half-moon shaped protrusion of plastic sticking out of parts B-26 and -27. These are where (for lack of a better word here, the shock supports go, parts B-51 and -52. Inside these pieces is a half-moon cavity that is supposed to fit over those half-moon extensions on -26 and -27. Unfortunately, at least in this kit, the half-moon areas do not line up, as the solid plastic areas of these half-moon are on the same side! Have checked and re-checked this just in case I had the wrong parts on the wrong side, but unfortunately this is how it is.
Luckily the lower supports, B-24 and -25, that fit ont part B-42, fit in very well to the bottom of the gun sub-assembly put together in step 6. So it should be no real problem to custom fit the problem parts together, those mentioned above, once the lower parts are on the main gun assembly.
Could be this kit I got was an early one and the later kits have been corrected, but if not, this is something to be aware of in any case. It's no big problem, but just thought you should know about it nonetheless.
Take care, Sgirty