Coming along nicely but those rubber tracks suck.

Hmmm...too late to alter my trailer devise as it's assembled, painted, and weathered. I was planning to place it on a small scenic base with uneven ground to hide my error. (Don't tell the IPMS judges!)

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Coming along nicely but those rubber tracks suck.

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I wan't too crazy about those rubber band tracks either, but they do have reasonable detail, and are much better than the old Airfix and Emhar ones. Maybe some day someone will make fiddley link by link tracks that will be equally disliked.

Thanks you all for your interest and comments.

@sabredog - Michael,

I guess that since we are at about the same stage of the build, we should mention again about the rather dubious painting instructions. At this point I am assuming that about this point, some painting should begin as some areas won't be reachable after final assembly.

I know. I am going to wing it and paint as per the colours on the box. I have no doubt that there were no regulations in regards to the type of pattern used. So on that assumption close will work for me.

I am not so keen with the metallic grey paint listed. The paint in the bottle is definitely metallic, so I might use a close pure grey match.

BTW, which show are you intending to enter?

Cheers,
Jan

Jan, interesting to see this progressing, and apologies for not dropping by sooner. I was wondering why the hatch and the exhaust covers are in a different colour? I expect I'm missing something obvious there.

Inevitably I suppose it does resemble the Airfix kit greatly but without the errors. The steering assembly looks much better; one improvement not too difficult to do might be thinning down those flat plates with the holes that sandwich the X-shaped beam, as they were made out of thin plate. The wheels should definitely be in contact with the ground as that is what the springs are doing - forcing them down.

The thread over on Landships is pretty long and involved, although glad to see humourous as they nit pick away. Something I noticed is that this chap has it seems almost completely finished the build of two kits including painting and weathering but has yet to address the tracks at all. Maybe they are the elephant in the room (or something) that he doesn't want to address!

On the colours, I haven't seen any suggestions that any went in to combat painted grey; there's this story about Solomon J Solomon painting them in green, brown, yellow and pink, the result being like that famous photo of the MkI at Thetford with the chap wearing the leather helmet poking out the top among that weird irregular netting. I think this is the scheme that crews were told to copy, while at the training ground. That paint job was deemed unsuitable once they arrived in France and crews were then instructed to repaint over that with green, brown and ochre, with some photos clearly showing the colours divided by thin darker lines, while others appear not to have these lines.