Plastic is fairly brittle in nature so I resorted to using a razor saw for a lot of sprue removals to ensure I did not break some of the more delicate parts.
I was also going to stretch some sprue tubing and replace the machinegun barrels as they are pretty basic, but carefully drilled out the barrel ends instead.
After being totally confused with the colour scheme(probably of my own making, but aided by the pretty but completely useless painting instructions) I have sourced colours I am comfortable with after reading a fantastic build blog by Federico Colladia.
I brush painted all the colours over an airbrushed Modelmaster Acryl base. Four thin coats gave a good result. It took four nights to do all of it properly.
Once the colour blocking was done, I lightened each colour with white and worked that colour in with a very dry brush to create some fading and to pull out the fine details.
So here are some in-progress pics of my Mk.1 build snapped on my iPhone. Apologies on the image quality.
Still plenty to do!
