Ouch... How a Project Changes

Hi fellow readers,

as I mentioned in my review of the Mirage Hobby Vickers E, I wanted too build the kit.

So I went to work on it and began assembling the hull. Everything looked fine, but the floor and the side-fenders were a little bent which wasn´t all that nice actually.

After a fair bit of filling around the model, everything went well though. Next step was painting the models subassemblies starting with a dark primer coat (Vallejo Grey Primer + Vallejo Model Colour Black) lightened up with white on the areas exposed to the sun/elements. This was intended to get some clolour-modulation within the paint-sceme.

Over the top of this prime-layer I painted the camoflage-sceme despicted on the kits boxart which consisted on sand-yellow, dark brown and olive stripes. Althoguh painting went well, the camoflage somewhat denied the modulation to really shine trough in the end. Colours from the Vallejo Model Air and the Ammo of Mig Acrylics were used.

Next step was fitting the sub-assemblies together. Tracks and suspension parts were detailed with Model Air Panzer Dark Grey and the exhaust recived a coat of Humbrol Rust colour.

Quite nice, isn´t it? then I moved to the tracks which (as rubber tracks tend to do in their "rubber-tracks-wont-be-fitting-nes" :P )were a little pain to join properly. But as it came out, fitting wasn´t the only issue...

Holy moly, those are long tracks.. way to long :/ . I didn´t really want to attach them like this and after a little bit of thinking, a new idea came.
I knew fixing the tracks would be a pain, so I decided to add the vehicle without tracks to a diorama taking place in Poland, were German forces find this as a kind of stripped-down vehicle.
S i´ll put this aside for the moment and focus on other projects, but you surely will see this model resurfacing.

Tom

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