After the Renaults we get some british tanks too - very interesting!
Speaking of british tanks... are there kits available for a Matilda A11 ?

Raul;

The notch you are pointing to...

Turns out, from closer inspection of that barrel set (have a few in my drawers...), that the RB KwK 30 barrel does NOT have that slot (nor the PE parts) for the lock-tab set-up I had mentioned before as being seen on their KwK and FlaK 38 barrels. That slot and PE are not features of the KwK 30 barrel. (And when looking at the FlaK 38 barrel... I notice that there is MORE receiver-tube represented there then on this KwK 30 barrel... )

So... that small notch or slot across that KwK 30 muzzle-brake may well be your target... the itty-bitty PE parts look like a pair of tiny bolt-heads... and there is actually one of those notches on either side of that muzzle-brake... I'll bet at this point that those 2 tiny PE bolt-heads go into those 2 notches and are meant to represent lock- or set-screws used to keep that M-B on the barrel.

I've never installed them on my KwK 30 builds! Out of ignorance, I'll add (I've simply ignored that tiny PE fret and marveled at the cool M-B and went right to installation!)! Perhaps my poor gunners will find one blazing afternoon that the muzzle-brake is working its way off in the heat of the moment!

To get them off that fret and onto your M-B... stick that fret onto a piece of tape, and use your small knife to nick off the connector tabs while the bolt-heads remain stuck to the tape. Mounting them calls for maybe just painting your barrel and M-B and, while the paint in those notches is still wet, placing a bolt-head into each groove (notch) with a water-wet tooth-pick. This may be easier then messing with getting a tiny droplet of CA in there, and the paint will hold that PE just fine!

Bob

Update.
Well, i'm about 1/2 done so far. Going with standard German Grey . Looks nice in Black & white eh? Ignore the gaps, it's not totally glued together yet lol.

Update.
Well, i'm about 1/2 done so far. Going with standard German Grey . Looks nice in Black & white eh? Ignore the gaps, it's not totally glued together yet lol.

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Update.
Well, i'm about 1/2 done so far. Going with standard German Grey . Looks nice in Black & white eh? Ignore the gaps, it's not totally glued together yet lol.

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"Gaps? Er... what gaps? Don't these things have air-vents?"

Looks pretty panzer III-ish, to me! I am, however, a little surprised to see you plan on straight dunkelgrau, given as we have pretty good record to suggest that most or maybe all III-E and even some F participating in Fall Gelb were painted in the still-current regulation brown over gray scheme...? Now, of course, if this were one of those tanks sent back for major repair and refurb and repainting... I think those may have "escaped" being restored or repainted to the brown over gray scheme in May or June of '40.

Bob

DAVID
or just use a small dab of your own "spit/saliva" on the end of your hobby knife to get the small PE part into place.

Hi all

One question.

How well the Archer transfers does adheres to uneven surfaces? I never use them.
I know how to use transfers (I´m an architect from the Letraset old days ).

The numbers on the turret goes right on top of the visors, and that’s my concern.

Cheers.

Raul

BOB
That's exactly why I went to doing stencils whenever possible... it's very difficult, in my experience, to get either decals or dry-transfers to fit cleanly and evenly over such convoluted surfaces. It MAY be effective to cut the numeral into sections which apply to the different surfaces? (one onto the vision-visor, the other(s) separately to the adjacent hull-faces?)