[modelperry]

So here goes a long post. Finished this one up yesterday.

The rear rack has printed mesh floor that looks terrible. So I replaced it with aluminum mesh and painted the modified floor with Tamiya NATO green. The box in the rack is too big so I had to cut a notch in it to fit over the vertical post it interferes with. Even then the box is still too big to let the rack fit exactly as it was designed to do.

The central rear antenna mount had to be modified to fit with a flat top surface.

The two side antennas did not have a much needed diagram to show base construction.

The top left hatch had a miss labeled white spot and no needed detail drawing to show where the hinge piece located.

The smoke grenade launchers were a mess. Both sides were printed with the exact same orientation, which is wrong. Right side parts should be mirror image and most of its pieces were not.

Right side top gun assembly diagram is worthless. Just saying.

So how did I figure out these difficult parts? I used a Trumpeter Abrams model I built a while back as a reference.

So, my parting thoughts are this: This would be a good intermediate model to build if all the parts were printed correctly and the diagrams were more detailed. As it is the model now sits in the more difficult to build range because of these shortcomings.

I still like the end result though.

Greg