And now all the travels are assembled  

Moving slowly forward on this little build I finished up the basic building and detailing of the rear engine plate. Starting off with the Tamiya rear plate that I cut down to fit within the sponsons fillers I added during my last post. Once that was done I then cut a piece of styrene tubing along it length and fitted to the bottom angle of the rear plate. This section was textured with Squadron Green stuff and welds where added from stretched sprue. The idler mounting points where replaced with ones from Tasca as the detail was much better than the originals. The APU exhaust port was added from Styrene tubing. A casting seam was added to the exhaust, also from stretched sprue and then textured by stippling with glue and a brush. Lastly the towing lugs and the towing hook mount where added along with welds once more from stretched sprue.