Understand the cats and fleas (have 5 cats, 1 Great Dane & 1 Cocker Spanial), I am also a dog trainer working at Petco.....for now anyway....

David and TP thanks for your comments. TP this is the same as the original. mine had 1986 embossed on the lower hull.

Was able to work a little today. Replaced the molded stowage box latches with the Aber ones.



Molded details



The Aber details are really nice but hard to work with even at this larger scale.



I removed all the molded details from the mudguard and the Bosch headlight and replaced them with the Aber set. The wire came from my collection of discarded electrical wires. Notice the two tiny wire clips. I added a clear plastic piece that looks like a lightbulb then used 5 minute epoxy to lock it in place and to act as glass. The headlight cover hides these details but a modeling judge with one of those tiny flashlights will be able to see something thru the slit.



Made my own spade handle from stretched sprue and used the Aber parts. A HUGE improvement over the Academy spade.

Hi Falcon,
 Thanks so much for the tips!!!

No work got done today, sadly. The cats had to go to the vet (one's tail has been a mess for a while...got him a shot a few days ago, but took them back today...) found out they both had fleas, so had to flea bomb the entire house and then do a lot of laundry and cleaning to get all the reside off the surfaces...long day!!!!

But tomorrow, hopefully, I can get some more peas glued down!

Cracking build so far Chips.Love the figure.
Just wish I could get my  figure faces like yours.

John

I've said superb earlier, now I say superb...er!!!   

well its coming to an end with this build, not sure what im going to do with it maybe put some detail to it ie stowage, helmets bits n pieces. but not sure as ive got plans to try and get the miniart normandy cross roads and do a dio with some of the other shermans.
any way less chat and more pics,
DOA pigs n parts, with a side salad of james beleshi......





























well all ive got to say is thats all for now. chips

Hi ppl. ThX 4 commenting.

Andy, I really don't know yet, I've never used this shade of mud.
But the European Dry Mud dried darker.

This looked like a really easy build, but looks are deceptive.
The kit is generally bad (although it can build to a nice model as my friend Jo

3202 Pilots of Luftwaffe, WW II era continues the series of kits with Pilots in 1/32 scale. This kit consists of 3 figures. Two figures are Pilots of Luftwaffe that prepare to the operation flight and a mechanic that assists them.



35102 German Infantry Defense, Eastern Front Battle Series, Kit No.1 is a traditional kit for Master Box company with the action scene that represents German Infantry on the Eastern Front. The kit is distinguished by a very dynamic, bright scenario, by dynamic and very realistic poses of the participants.

We would like to emphasize especially that there is a separate sprue with weapons and equipment of higher quality included in the kit that increases also, on the whole, attractiveness of the kit. The kit consists of 5 figures of Wehrmacht infantrymen including 2 machinegunners that fight a close action in the initial period of the fight actions on the Eastern Front.

Also we would like to emphasize especially that 35102 kit is the first kit of traditional series for Master Box company that consist of 3 kits and it interacts with 35152 and 35153 kits well.



35137 German Infantry "Off to the front Vehicle riders, WW II Era is a special kit from the point of view of opportunities that open for the modeller. The kit includes 6 figures of Wehrmacht soldiers that suit well for being set into the body and into the cab of any truck of any manufacturer. The kit includes a driver, an escort that could be set both into the cab next to a driver and into the body and 4 infantrymen that could be set into the body.

The special appeal of the kit is, firstly, the presence of additional hands that allows creation of the figures in different poses (multipose assembly), and is, secondly, a separate sprue with weapons, the variety of choice of that works for multipose assembly also well.

We would like to emphasize especially that that the purchase of several kits by the modeller allows filling of the body of the truck by the figures fully, poses of those are not repeated that is seen well in the enclosed picture.

Haven't used wood filler but when I did my cobblestone roads here's what I did. 1st glued the peas like you are doing (yes it is a tedious long, messy task) 2nd after all were glued down. I built dams you could say by either having a raised up side walk, or used clay to build a berm down the side of the road (temporary dam) and at the ends of the diorama base I used tape across it. 3rd I mixed a little bit thinner mix of the white glue by adding water ( had to experiment to get the right consistency) put it in a bottle (used a dish soap one) and with all the dams in place I put the mixture on the road and let it flow until the road was covered (I live in Florida so I did the last step outside on a sunny day and let the base sit in the sun) and let the glue dry. When dry I took a sanding block and some fine sand paper and sanded the top of the peas in the most traveled areas to flatten the tops down a bit. Sealed the peas with a good sealer. I actually left the dams in place and paint the stones a darker grey and did a wash of black. Later after all was dry I started the weathering, etc.....
I would recommend doing a small test section on a little base (Which of course you can use later on the diorama or a different one) This was the way I used the split peas for cobblestone some 15 years ago.........

I see it now, thanks!