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Many :) A minor problem is that new ones usually come when I read or see interesting things, but always faster than I build the ones I'm already working on. And I often act on them according to the FIFO principe …




After taking the B1 apart, I had to clean up some more stuff before I could start rebuilding the model. In some of the holes for the mudguard locating pins, broken-off pieces of those pins remained, but I managed to get them out by giving them a tap using a punch and hammer from one of my punch-and-die sets. Unfortunately, I didn't notice in time that there are pins only at about half the locations of the mudguard supports on the real tank, leading me to think that there were also pins at the others that refused to come out, so I drilled those out. When I noticed my mistake, I had to fill them all with some putty again :)


I then filed off the remains of the antenna base, losing a couple of rivets in the process, in addition to the ones that had to be cut away to fit the antenna back when I originally built this kit. Using the drawing in the instructions that tells you which rivets to remove for that, I could put all of them back after scribing the seam between the plates that was also lost by glueing the antenna over it:


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The white dot is putty in an unnecessarily drilled hole :) The horrible patterns in the paint appeared as soon as I first sprayed the model way back when. I don't know what I did wrong, but I clearly did. That was another reason I put the model back into the box :)


That done, I could fit the other mudguards:


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I had also completely taken off the fence on the hull top (which serves to prevent the turret guns from shooting up the back of the tank), but it fit neatly back in place. I also took off the driver's hatch, as I intend to replace that with another.


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