I have a few builds on the go at the moment
but am managing to get some work done on all of them, albeit, very little work. This Tamiya gun tractor goes together with no
real problems despite the kit's age, and the only real work is the filling of the many injector pin marks.
Here's the completed chassis in primer and
ready for paint. I'm still undecided on the paint scheme so all work stops at
this point until I make my final decision. I must do something different
because every modeller and his dog (or cat) has built this kit and I want
something original, although this being said, I may relent and choose a much
time-tested scheme if I'm short of inspiration. I must point out that the underside of the
chassis is well detailed, especially considering it's a 1974 kit.
I'll let my captions do the talking for the
photo above, but as you can see, I couldn't resist some small modifications and fabricated myself a small roof-rack/shelf of sorts.
And here's 'the rack' with a steel drum stowed
- all it needs is some scale rope to secure the load. I took this route
as the roof is a large flat surface area which needs to be broken up to provide
some visual interest. I imagined I was the driver of this truck and wanted
to stow some drums on the roof, but had limited resources - how would I do it? Some scrap metal and a welder provided by the
maintenance depot and et voila!
