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finished this on the weekend and am mostly happy with it. The IR sights are from a ModelCollect kit and I copied the support slab from the Modelcollect kit onto some thin sheet. I debated whether to add the black wires but in this scale they would be fiddly so I left them off.

The whitewash is my first attempt at this. I used AK washable white over a matt varnish. When I initially tested this I did it on a old Airfix He 177 kit over a gloss varnish. This would have been a better idea for the final effort as the matt varnish caused the paint to stick better and so scrubbing off with a paint brush was more difficult. I got caught up with using a matt varnish to seal the decals in and forgot about the effect of using the wrong sort of varnish.

This is much easier than the hairspray method that is featured in the AFV magazines

The last few photos are one of specimens in the Melbourne Museum followed by some serious storage drawer porn.

Not buying anything yet ad everything has a 4 figure price tag but its fun looking!