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I’ve been working on bits of this kit today. Lots of different steps that will eventually be pulled together. Sometimes with kits there is just not enough to do without approaching a kit in this manner. I find trucks in 7 2nd scale are often quite fiddly to assemble the frame etc and require a lot of messing around to get the wheels to sit properly anyway. I have left the stair treads off until later so I only knock them off a half a dozen times before I finish. 

Finished the first run of painting and now onto assembly. This is most of stage 1 out of 13. No problems encountered so far.

More painting work today. To the right of the picture are the tyres. These have been painted after some sanding with a hand mixed combination of Citadel Adeptus Battlegrey and their Abaddon Black. I have this premixed for painting aircraft tyres and this should go a long way. The seats have had their first coat of a light brown Humbrol acrylic which has no name and is so old you would be unable to find it anyway. The leaf springs have had a quick wash of black and await fitting. The exhaust after being painted black last night has had some Mig rust pigment mixed with Future applied. The only other piece of work was to find some diamond tread for the steps and this will be applied tomorrow. Back tomorrow.

For this kit I decided to do whatever prepainting I could which I find useful when doing trucks along with a little internet research. So far the underside frame parts are mostly in black and the interior is in the exterior color except for some detail parts like the steering wheel and gears and seats which all have an initial coat of black. The tyres all have a slight mould mismatch which is very common so these will need a quick cleanup before painting.  The exhaust will receive some Mig rust pigment and the underside will have some Florymodels.co.uk Dark dirt added also. Paints used are my usual mixture of various brands – xtracrylics dunkelgelb,  citadel abaddon black and skull white.

After rather a long break in which the bench was cleaned and tidied its back to building something. Unfortunately the Helldiver didn’t make it past the tidy up so its now sitting in a box below my bench.
The Hanomag was used on Luftwaffe airfields as well as for hauling V-2’s on Meillerwagens. This is a Special Hobby kit in 1/72 nd scale. Unlike cheaper brands like Ace, the glazing is in clear plastic rather than do it yourself templates. From experience this does make a difference.
I will be starting this tomorrow night hopefully.
A Melbourne show special will follow soon.