Airfix : White M3A1 Half-track. [Part 2]

Okay, this kit got much worse. Whilst I said last time, the chassis went together nicely, not so much for the body-work. it's been a right pain to put together.

I started, as the instructions said, by putting the walls of the thing together and attaching the back. Easier said than done I'm afraid. i thought about using blu-tack to hold the thing in place, I've noticed with a few previous models that blu-tack causes the glue to run and scar the model. I then thought about masking tape, but I didn't fancy cutting it to spec (mainly cause I'm lazy).

 
In the end Dad suggested using good old Lego. A favourable idea as I knew where the lego was, it was all sorted into boxes, but also since I needed the real panel to be 90 degrees to the back. Good old Lego.

This was the easiest part of the hull assembly, the cockpit. Mainly because it's only two pieces, it glues together nicely. Sadly the same isn't true about the rest of it. there's some odd shapes involved with the main hull which makes it harder than it should be to put together, but a lot of the pieces didn't seem to fit.

 The whole thing, once assembled, looks nice, it's not all been put together yet, there's still a few parts to glue on. But it's coming together nicely!

Airfix : White M1A3 Half Track

Okay, so, first of all, I've not posted in ages, primarily this is because I've been busy or too lazy to work on the Marder.

I have however been working on small 1/72 stuff. Including a Jagdpanther and a SdKfz251/1. These are both built and painted now, and I'd forgotten about the blog. So I didn't think to document it. Still started a new one today when I remembered the blog. So I took pictures and such!

Onto the good stuff! The instructions are clear. Although I did stick the tracks on upside-down at first through lack of attention. I was disappointed by the amount of flash on some pieces. (Pictures to the left.) So I set about them with my craft knife, sandpaper and liquid poly tidying up edges and gluing parts together.




So far I've only put the undercarriage together. It was easy, apart from the exhaust, which requires a bit of a steady hand and a large amount  of liquid poly... But it does go together nicely, that aside.

I'll do some more work on it shortly, might put a post up tomorrow, or I might put one up tomorrow, depends how much I do.