The front part of the E100 is on but it needs some filler and cleanup but that’s been a bit of a mojo killer.

I’ve switched glues recently from mainly super glue to Tamiya’s new Low odor thin glue combined with the quicker acting normal thin glue. I use the latter in my spray booth to cope with the smell. The low odor with open windows makes this a better option for gluing plastic.

The KV1 from Trumpeter is moving along quite well but the resin conversion is untouched do far. On the whole the kit isn’t bad with the instructions being ok. What probably distinguishes this from the Tamiya kit is that it probably wouldn’t have mearly as many moulding pins to sand back. I’ve cheated by only doing the ones on the outside that are visible.

It’s still the thing I least like about doing 1.35 scale tanks. The tracks have a large top run with sag moulded in. As this is such a characteristic of the KV1/2 series its nice to not have to induce this as I had to do in the 1/72 version with rubber band tracks. The bottom is also mostly one run and two small pieces with lots of individual tracks for around the wheels at either end.

This is the usual tedium relieved by YouTube or movies on my tablet.

Yep lots of cleanup!
This is how you apply Luftwaffe markings 🙂