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I’m calling this one done — decided against doing any weathering, partly because paint rubs off the tyres rather too easily 
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I had to guess at the antenna length, settling on 4 cm, because it’s not mentioned in the instructions and I couldn’t find anything on South African antenna lengths that didn’t seem to eventually link to radio telescopes instead of military vehicle communications. They’re made of 0.3 mm spring steel, by the way.
Trumpeter would have you paint the caps of the smoke launchers and the round cans behind them with black. This is correct for the launchers, but it looks like they’re often painted with the vehicle in practice, so I left them like that. The other cans appear not to have rubber caps at all, so this looks like an error in the instructions. Also, whoever decided to put the sprue attachment point for the transparent part of the gunner’s sight at the front probably had had a long day at the office already …
On the whole, this is a pretty good kit. It requires a bit of work, but nothing a mediocre modeller shouldn’t be able to manage. My main complaint about it, as I’ve said before, is that it costs too much — or to put it another way, I don’t think you’re getting value for money with it. The kit is simple, with relatively few parts and just a small amount of photoetch (for parts where it does make a difference) so I don’t see anything that justifies paying €60 for it
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I had to guess at the antenna length, settling on 4 cm, because it’s not mentioned in the instructions and I couldn’t find anything on South African antenna lengths that didn’t seem to eventually link to radio telescopes instead of military vehicle communications. They’re made of 0.3 mm spring steel, by the way.
Trumpeter would have you paint the caps of the smoke launchers and the round cans behind them with black. This is correct for the launchers, but it looks like they’re often painted with the vehicle in practice, so I left them like that. The other cans appear not to have rubber caps at all, so this looks like an error in the instructions. Also, whoever decided to put the sprue attachment point for the transparent part of the gunner’s sight at the front probably had had a long day at the office already …
On the whole, this is a pretty good kit. It requires a bit of work, but nothing a mediocre modeller shouldn’t be able to manage. My main complaint about it, as I’ve said before, is that it costs too much — or to put it another way, I don’t think you’re getting value for money with it. The kit is simple, with relatively few parts and just a small amount of photoetch (for parts where it does make a difference) so I don’t see anything that justifies paying €60 for it
