Jan, I hope you're managing to get the place fixed up OK and there's no serious loss of any of your stuff; you mention the rain coming, I see on the forecast map that the same band stretches all the way down to the southern US states that were seriously hit...
I'm going to confine myself to comments on page 41 only!
*minas-ithil - congrats on completion, and even on (original) schedule
. Very cool vehicle and a very nice finish.
*Chris - not sure about any greenish tinge, in the photos it looks
very yellow; these "yellow" camo colours do tend to have a greeny tinge however. A straight Tamiya colour with a very pale and less greenish tinge is Buff, which if you take into account the often suggested principle of lightening up for scale, might be an option. The Tamiya Desert Yellow is a bit too orangey for smal scale I always think. Build and detailing look great, hope you sort out the colours to your satisfaction. The bulge on the barrel isn't really visible in the photos so I couldn't work out exactly where it was - as it didn't break entirely I'd suggest that very careful and patient sanding is the only way, moving from very fine to superfine. Looking forward to the completion with those figures especially.
*Radek - super finish, almost a shame to have wethered over that beautifully rendered camouflage, and I know that the coin in the photo is a special giant Polish coin about 10cm diameter, right?
*John - I don't have a lot of experience in the issues you mention, but I think I would resist applying an overall varnish on top of Klear. There is quite a bit of differing opinion over whether vehicles like these should have satin or matt finishes, and I must admit I have tended towards slightly satin rather than completely flat, mainly because real vehicles tend to never be finished completely matt, though there is an argument for scaling down the finish to be less glossy as it were. An alternative might be dry brushing (if you do that kind of thing...) with matt enamels which tend to be very matt (e.g. Humbrol Dark Earth) and would tone down the Klear in themselves, as would using pastel chalks (or pigment powders if you are a purchaser of such things). I have found that weathering so often tends to darken finishes down more than I want, one reason I guess for trying to keep the original base colour exaggeratedly light.
The Challenger looks great by the way. White Afrika Korps symbol on beige is OK, I think. An alternative is putting it on a small dark grey oblong patch, seems that some vehicles shipped to N Africa had the new DAK insignia painted on the original grey and were then repainted in the yellow. You could contrive to make it look hand painted I guess - if you were looking for additional work
See photo below; note the other marking on the left mudguard was painted after the yellow.
*Toby, like the Fennek, even though you say it's only "almost" finished. With the extension, are you sure you can't get the M113 done??
Right, the "Royal Wedding" was very handy for the additional day off work, enabling a big garden clear up and some rapid paint progress on the Maultier. Was re-reading Tony Greenland's Panzer Modelling Masterclass (excellent, if slightly loopy, though I don't mean that in a bad way...) and was inspired twice:
1. I masked off markings with tape on the white primer, then applied the base coat of Tamiya Dark Yellow. Chose letter A as it was easiest to do in tape.
2. Having seen a similar finish on a wrecked Maultier ammo carrier in Doyle and Chamberlain's Encyclopedia of GTofWW2 tome I tried out the "hard edge one side, soft edge the other" as TG does on his Ostwind, using a torn piece of card as a mask for the airbrush. Slightly folded it in various places to go around the shape of the hull side. Thought about doing it in green and red/brown, but having got the green reasonably OK decided not to mess it up. Managed to knock off one of the foot steps though - in the garage, not a good place, but not as bad as the lawn...
With markings exposed - not perfect, especially obvious flaws in these photos, but when touched up a little and weathered, they'll be OK I think:
Sign for tracked rocket launcher... the bottom bit masked with an old Letraset zero, so not quite right, but still.
Unfortunately, almost the entire eastern section of North America got hit by a once in a century "Mother of All Windstorms" yesterday and my area was not excluded. Wind was continuous with wind speeds of 70 mph (120 km/h) gusting to 85 mph (136 mn/hr). Over eight hours without power and trees uprooted all around my area. We sustained roof damage and it's expected to rain today. Some people have lost half or more of their roofs as have schools and other buildings. This will keep me rather distracted until we can make at least temporary repairs. 
. On the up side it is a good excuse to stay in and build 
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