Marc, Steve, Mike... So sorry for not thanking you for your comments. Gotta start paying attention
Slowly but surely I get closer to one of those big landmarks
in a build…a coat of paint. And only 9 days
between updates instead of 18 last time.
Some tedious work getting the searchlights done with some real
micro PE pieces. They don’t show well in
the photos but I used a lot of Scale Hardware brass hew bolts and hex nuts. Gotta remember to do the wiring
Made a new cage for the headlight out of wire. Brass tune for the conduit and wire from a
cheap pair is ear bud headphones.
The exhaust guard was made by burnishing lead foil over the
kit part and used the PE mounting brackets.
I started the turret armor by cut off the tab on the back,
since it is centered on the cut line for separating the blocks, and made new
ones for when they get attached to the brackets. . Once cut some .005 plastic card was glued on the
open sides top makes sure they were solid if looking into the gap. After these were taken I did some of the
obligatory weld “crapping up”
