Dragon 1/35 M1A1 AIM Build log

Thanks for looking in Brian!!!

Your screen name prompted me to read your profile.  I am right down the road in Nashua.

I like the detail.

Thanks for looking in IB.  I figured your last post was meant for another thread.  Those look like Dragon instructions.  My M1A1 Dragon instructions are riddled with part # errors like that.  Good luck working it out. :)

Cool shots, Rob! Thanks for posting those---great, first-hand reference!

Ken---you'll find that, generally, when detailing to this degree, you're going to run into fit problems like this SOMEWHERE along the way. It just always seems to happen at some point. You'll learn to hide modifications and outright desecrations of parts behind kit parts and bulkhead. I've taken a Dremel tool to parts that wouldn't fit, after test-fitting the hull and making sure that the chopped-corner of a transmission part wouldn't show! You model, you learn...

Cool work Ken!  I don't know a darn thing about Abrams interiors, but I know great model detailing work when I see it!  

Thanks doog! How true. Learning a lot.  But that is great advice to keep in mind.

Thanks buffel! I appreciate you looking in and the compliment.  

I haven't done much, so there hasn't been an update.  Little bits plus working on my car build.

I did manage to base coat the tracks and get more of the lower hull guts installed.  The turret is daunting and will take a major chunk of time, but I'll get back to it soon.

Stay tuned and thanks again.