WOw....Those are....Good. Really good. I only have to say that that one house doesn't really look like a house, but It's sure al hell better than anything I coulkd Do. My houses are made out of legos.
Well, Ive had my first encounter with resin wheels. sanding down the casting stubs was actually a fun and rewarding expericence. the main drive wheels were another story. the stub went way down into the spaces between the two halves of the wheel and, for lack of a better tool, i used a swiss army knike to wedge the stub in half, not a very smart move, for I also managed to wedge the rest of the piece in half also. Not a problem, though, for I have discovered the miracle that is Super glue! God's final prophet, the inventor of superglue, was killed by a combination of food poioning and cancer so that we couuld have this miraculous substance at our disposal! It's such a reilef from using plastic cement, where I have to hold the two pieces together for ten minutes, only to have them droop out of alignment when I let go. No, this stuff binds tight!
In addition, I have primed the tracks with white, achieveing a shade of dark gray where there previosly was black. I ran out of white paint halfway through, So I had to thin down the dregs into oblivion.
I am also about to go into painting some 1/35 soviet soldiers for my BMP. I am guided in this endeavour by a wonderful book which informs me of the inadequacies of my current tools. In one picture they have 23 brushes in a jar. I, on the other hand, posess a grand total of...8. Plus their variety of saws, clamp, pincers, tweezers, magnifying glasses and the like puts me to shame. I also got a reference boook on Warsaw Pact ground forces, which provides intimate details of the warsaw pact organization. For instance, did you know that squads generally consisted of 7-10 men, with 2 light machine gunners and 1 RPG operator? Neither did I ! I've been looking all over the internet for this kind of stuff, but only now Have I found it! This is probably one of the best Books EVER! (i am slightly biased, as you may guess, but it is a very good book).