After a bit of break including five days away I’ve restarted this kit. Before this I had assembled the engine bay then undid this as I had cocked up the fit. I should have put on the rear plate first then the engine area. I like the ModelCollect kits but the instructions are not exactly helpful at times.

More work after discarding the wheel springs which were nearly invisble from the side but seriously impacted assembling the wheels.

I’ve done some work on the tracks with the two right hand rusty pigments over the track colour with the left had Russian earth to be added next.

The above is a roughly assembled version. Annoyingly the nice metal barrel does not fit properly onto the barrel movement plastic bit so the gun will be fixed.