Hi again guys!
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. I' sorry I've been busy working on this, and in the meantime I'm also working on planning, scripting, and eventually shooting an Instructional Guitar DVD to be released next year, so I've been just busy, busy, busy! I've also got to find the time to build a Jagdtiger for a weathering tutorial in person at SYRCON this year! Yikes! A full plate fer shur!
As far as the "quality" comments, I can only say that the quality of the castings may look similar, but the resin one already has proven its worth, as the hatches detail is seriously lacking on the Revell kit. There's no way to pose the hatches opened with any accuracy, and you know that I like figures with my builds. I plan on building BOTH parts, and will show you the comparison.
As to why I bothered to purchase this one, well...you know me--always thinking, always stretching my legs. I will be submitting this build story as another article to Finescale, so I had to think of some "angle" to make it stand out and catch the editors' eyes. It will be worth the tedious tracks, which DO NOT "snap" by the way!
I don't think I'll be using the Gator Glue--I want to use CA glue; thick type, slower-setting. I willl laboriously cut and clean each link, assemble lengths and paint. Never take the easy way out for me!
This IS a somewhat-novel build for me, being "modern" and I willl also be painting it in the hard-to-duplicate "Yellow-Olive", mixing it from my own stock here. Plan on weathering techniques of pre-and-post shading, ala' the E-100 that I did a while back. This will be a one-color scheme. The weathering will also be light. I feel like a virgin on her honeymoon! LOL!
In between all I've got going here, I'll try to get a nice update up by Wednesday at the latest!