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The End of Days

The first step was to clean the wheels of all ridges and flash; this was the easy part. Because I don't like a straight wheeled vehicles, the first thing I did was to alter the front axle so that the wheels were steering to the left side. The way to do that is to make some cuts in the axle just behind the brake boxes. The rest of the bottom work of the GPA was no problem to build. I enjoyed that part of the model.

With the undercarriage done it was time for the body. Here I had to use the first P.E. parts. The original handles were removed with the mini-drill power tool. It is unbelievable, but at this stage the undercarriage is in a way ready for the airbrush.

So I continued with the topside. At first I started with the front. I had to fill some gaps with putty and I had to remove a part or two. The holes that are closed are holes that are the result of bad sprueing of the plastic but on these places the original parts are replaced with P.E.

The exhaust is altered and rebuilt with some scratch parts and extended with P.E. Also the ventilation panel on the front side it replaced with P.E. Some caution is needed with the removal and construction of the head light fenders. These are very thin and bend easily.

So after 3 nights of building I'm very satisfied with the result of the front side. So I started on the back side of the GPA. The only thing at the backside that had to be altered is the tail lights. The original plastic holders are replaced with P.E. parts.