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Great progress on your Mikasa Herby, think everyone who completes this model should get a medal, it’s such an involved built, certainly a gem for the ones who love to work with photo etch, it’s good to watch others tackling it especially when the pain is behind me 😂 doing a splendid job Herby 🤛 

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Thank you for the lovely comment Jeff, makes me want to continu and publish a long awaited and overdue update.

 

Due to multiple personal events in 2024 I was a bit discouraged to work on al this fiddly stuff, so I fulfilled a childhood dream for some 1/16 panzers, that I documented on the dutch modelforum.

Tiger I, Elefant en Königstiger 1/16 RC by Herby63 | ModelbouwForum.nl

Tiger I, Elefant en Königstiger 1/16 RC by Herby63 - deel 2 - Elefant | ModelbouwForum.nl

Tiger I, Elefant en Königstiger 1/16 RC by Herby63 - deel 3 - Königstiger | ModelbouwForum.nl

 

Now that these are finished, I am slowly taking up this build.

 

So lets see what has been done in the past 5 months.

 

I passed on to the main armament (step 40 in the Merit manual, to be completed with quite some pontos-parts).

Here you see the parts to be assembled:

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I soldered the barrels to the trunions, and the tiny hooks to the rings.

image.jpeg.16bd3ab7db9bb63817567570f20d7af3.jpeg 1 square = 1 cm

 

Then I glued the brass rings to the turret bases with pink Zap.

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I soldered the supports for the ladders that go to the sides of the turrets to the brass top plates and glued the top plates to the turret tops with pink Zap.

The barrels are attached to the turret bases and the 3 small cupolas were glued to each turret top with thin cement.

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The fine brass linings of the turret openings for the barrels are glued in place with some pink Zap and the turret tops are glued with thin cement to the bases.

Finaly the ladders are attached with a little pink Zap.

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After applying a basecoat, they have been airbrushed Insigna White.

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Until next time, enjoy medelling.

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