The painting on the BV P178 was not successful with me using Vallejo air 76 over Xtracrylics 75. Basically apart from leaving the Tamiya tape on too long which left behind bits the  likely cause of the paint peeling off in parts was the difference between the glossiness of the xtracrylics and the poor adhesion of Vallejo as noted in reviews I have seen elsewhere. It works ok straight over Tamiya primer as I have seen in the past but not over much else. The plane has gone back to the box for a rest. It will come back because it’s a nice kit , just a bit of a painting disaster.

Back on the desk is the Model Collect V1 launcher on a E100 body. The kit is not Revell standard in this scale and has a semi short run feel in places. Having said that they have gone the extra mile in places. An example is the engine, something I can’t recall in any other 1.72 tank kit. This builds up ok but needs some fettling in places. 

I’ve found I needed to think a little ahead and plan for the next few stages before closing things up. Just an example here …. the engine deck has nothing in the way of support for the front 3/4s. On one side it works fine but on the other it dips down. I’ve put in a bit of evergreen strip to support this and set the level. On the other hand in the engine area it sits high which may be my fault and I’m doing a bit of scraping to bring this back. While I was looking at the deck I thought I would check out the turntable for the V1 launcher. I wanted to have this rotate so test fitted it. This revealed that the two teeth are too thick to allow this. A quick cut on the top of each allowed it to rotate easily. 

The V1 body needs a second PSR cycle.