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Crusader Mk II Gun Tractor Mk I

Afternote

I received some additional information after the build was complete from Andrew Tomlinson stating that the side hatches opened inwards and not as depicted and indicated in the instructions outwards. There then followed a bit of a discussion between modellers and Alan Brown was able to provide photographic evidence that this was in fact the case. So my thanks to Andrew and Alan and the others involved in the discussion.

The hatches depicted in the photograph, had 3 small back pads on the inside of the vehicle. They also folded flat across the seats thereby allowing easy transfer of ammo box in and out of the vehicle. I replaced the kit hatches with some plastic ones, added the back pads and transferred the fittings onto the inside of the hatches from the original kit parts. Then I fixed them in place and did a bit of re-painting.

Finding out stuff after the event is always a bit frustrating and I managed to knock a bit of resin track off in the fixing process, however all seems reasonably well and, for me, it was better to make the fix than grow annoyed looking at it.

I've left the original finished pictures in, how not to do it and added a couple more of the fixed article.

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