Nice work Matt! I guess I'm going to have to place an order

Neal,

I think I paid $5.00 at Michaels for the circle template. Maybe it was Target, or Wal Mart. Those things are everywhere. They may not be perfect for the size, but clearing up overspray is pretty quick.

Since Mason got ahead of me as I let work interfere with my hobby time, I decided to spend lunch playing catch up...going as far as to shoot a quick primer coat....

Folks, Mason and I are looking for any interior tech drawing that might help us really detail our interiors (without guessing past what pics we have found online). While he is concerned with munition, supply and medical boxes, I'd like to detail the electrical wiring. Any help would be great

A shot after shooting the Effenbein interior color:



And one after removing the tape:

Neal I am no expert and I am sure someone will correct me but I believe the drives are supposed to be straight.

Mason pointed this out when we were dry fitting the parts. He got his more in-line than I did. The problem that we were having was matching the drive rods with the "sockets" of the transmission and drive gear enclosures.

Here's Mason's:

Wait......what?!

That's not what I've been told

Mason just called us both out for another obvious that wasn't so obvious to either of us...more so me than him....the shaft/piping that runs vertical from the transmission (transfer casing?) up to the upper section of the hull near the turret was facing the wrong way. In my case, it was crooked to boot.

Ugh...getting old and focusing on other details that we might not even acheive are getting in the way of good modeling

Neal at least it won't be seen when the hull is attached.

Got the support in question fixed and some further paint work done over lunch...

Placed driver's control panel with wiring run and battery cable run to engine...need to really touch up the ammo storage "holes"....

I'm currently working on pedal assembly and how to adapt it to the Verlinden pieces...

This is comiing along nicely Mason. Don't forget the inside of a tank can quickly get dirty, with the ammunition bins getting scratched in the rush to get the next round.

Thanks!

I am planning on weathering the interior...same for Mason. In fact, he had found a Panzer MK IV build thread here in Armorama in which the builder had weathered his interior and had pointed it out to me as a reference. With that reference point, both of us are going to test our skills against that build.

Update pics...starting of the upper hull section and pedal/linkage assembly installed:

Here's a side by side of mine (the weathered one) and my son's (MasonTheKid)...we took another short vacation, so we fell behind..he's quick to catch up though...

Moving on, I added some rust...

Now that is really begining to look good.

both look really cool!!!
stan

I agree great progress so far both

Some work on the upper part of the hull...

Some of the PE pieces added....it was tough to get good pics today as we're having spots of rain

Sprayed the interior crew compartment color of the upper hull...

And the red oxide primer...