Hi everyone, the build is progressing nicely. Just finished up the main body of the vehicle and luckily all the angles worked out. I just needed a little putty around one side of the front of the vehicle. I used the liquid testors plastic cement and the extra working time allowed me to get the angles to come out right. Of course I had a great blunder that I dumped over the glue and lost ½ the bottle that stuff is good it eat my lines off the cutting mat and drenched the end on one finder side of my model. Luckily I remembered not to touch the plastic and just let it dry, no damage was done. I have decided that I am going to leave the body off the chasse till I finish painting it and then I will put them to gather for weathering, It will be easier than typing off the bottom part of the running gears. These pictures show it just temporally sitting on the chasse.


Well it’s off to glue more plastic together just need to finish up the rocket launcher and then I am ready to paint it. Also need to build some form of glue holder so I can’t knock over another bottle, that stuff isn’t cheap as my wife let me know.

Happy modeling
Robert

Nice build.
The trick with using a black primer is to spray multiple , very thin coats of paint over top of it...& not to actually cover up the black totally. You want the black to bleed through in places.A very light shade of dark should show thru your light coats of Dark Yellow of whatever paint you use. ie- edges of panels..bolts.. Then dry brush the dark yellow paint with a lighter shade of dark yellow onto the edges of bolts or high spots , to add even more depth.
Same with your tri colors...dry brush a lighter shade on the edges.
My 2 cents

excellent job!! great weathering; cool and interesting subject; anyone know where I can get this kit? is it still available?

First off, excellent work there! Great looking model. I think the streaking looks okay. Oil based paints tend to stand out a lot more under brightly lit environments because you know... reflective yadda yadda... I also love those oil drums... they look so..natural?

@ Brian, I think the kit has been out of production for quite some time now. Bronco models does the same vehicle (CB35070) which is of better quality but also contains more parts and therefore much more expensive.

You could also try the Italeri kit (#277) since the Tamiya kit is essentially a rebox of it but with extra stuff. Its cheaper but has its share of issues.