More or less snowed in all weekend so lots of bench time. The FV101 has been a real speed build--pretty much ready for primer as soon as the weather warms up. Felt a few modifications to the kit were in order, most notably the canvas cover over the rear stowage bin. Here what it look like in 1:1:

(Photo courtesy of Prime Prtal and shown here for discussion purposes only)

And here is a side by side comparison of the kit cover (right) and my cover (left):


Would have liked to use some smaller thread, but couldn't find any. I think once it's all assembled and painted it won't look quite so out of scale.

I managed to do a bit of work on this tonight. Headlights and mirrors. Jeez... Talk about a ton of tiny fiddly parts for those assemblies.