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Thank you very much @Keeff and @modelling minion. On Tuesday evening I managed to get some thinned, with water, Humbrol acrylic Dessert Yellow applied with a medium flat brush: Then I did a bit of a test fit of the upper and lower hulls, plus the turret with the gun, to see how it all looked: You can probably see from the last photo, that some additional work will be rquired to get the front uppr hull part to sit down into the lower hull front. There seems to be a couple of tabs, on the tops of the sides of the front of the lower hull, with no corresponding slots in the undersides of the front of the upper hull. A bit of filing may be reuired. Comments and suggestions welcome. Kind regards, Stix

Fantastic result Steve, especially as it is out of your comfort zone! Looks great in the gallery. Very well done! Kind regards, Stix

Very impressive modelling, all round, as always!! Very well done! Kind regards, Stix

Fantastic to see this one in the Gallery Ozzy! Very well done! Great job! Kind regards, Stix

Fantastic results with all your builds Enzo. You truly are a production line modeller!! Very well done!! Kind regards, Brant

Well, it was looking fantastic, last time seen, and I'm sure it will be batter than fantastic when finished. Great effort! Well done. Kind regards, Stix

Very impressive result in the Gallery! Really does look superb! Kind regards, Stix

Thank you very much @Keeff, @stevej60, @modelling minion, @Corsairfoxfouruncle & @JOCKNEY. Thank you very much for your comments. Right, on to the next part of this project. As I mentioned above, I'm doing the Tiger 1 next. Box Art, Contents and some close-ups first: Zimmerit on some of the parts: PE and decals: Tracks and cable wire: Pre-formed PE exhaust shrouds: Wheels, idlers and drive sprockets all come like this, out of the box: Instructions: As can be seen from the images above, there are not a lot parts to assemble in this kit. In fact Dragon seem to have done a lot of preformed parts, more than I have seen in a Dragon kit before. And this was where I had got to at the end of yesterday: Some test fitting: This was not where I was hoping to be at the end of the weekend. I was hoping to have got some paint on, but there was a lot flash and mould seams to clean up, plus there were some parts which I had to guess where they needed to be fitted. For example, some parts are shown as having pre-drilled holes for pins to fit into, but the holes (or location dents for those hole to be drilled), were no-where to be found. The side skirts were a good example of this. In some ways it seemed like Dragon were trying too hard to take the assembly of some parts out of the modellers' hands, to save time {?) or just rushing a kit out too quickly, without checking everything. The mould seams and flash may idicate the moulds may have not been great either, or over-used. I may try and get some paint on one evening this week. Comments and suggestions welcome. Kind regards, Brant

Hi Steve. Great to see more progress. It's always a good point in the build when the fuselage sides are together. Looking forward to see this with the wings on and some paint going on! Kind regards, Stix

Thank you @modelling minion & @Keeff. So this one is nearly complete. I did rush it a little.......I've got four kits to try and get finished, so that's 4 weekends out of the 16 or so gone already!! Plus I have got to make a vignette base too! I added the decals, some Vallejo European mud and a bit of weathering before getting the tools in place: There's a couple of bits that need tiying up, the aerial needs fitting and, if I get time, I may add some stowage. I'm probably going to make the Tiger 1 next. Comments and suggestions welcome. Kind regards, Stix

That's coming together beautifully. Kind regards, Stix

Great to see this one with the wading stacks in place! Hope the decals go on well. Kind regards, Stix

That looks like excellent progress George. Very nicely done! Kind regards, Stix

Fantastic work in the cockpit Craig. Nicely detailed and excellently painted and weathered! Kind regards, Stix

The cockpit looks great Steve and it does look to be a nicely detailed kit. Good to see it progressing well. Kind regards, Stix