At a loose end I was looking for something to keep my hands busy so I decided to have a crack at one of those Home Bargains £1.99 Lindberg kits. I was well aware from the packaging that it was a re-box of the Hasegawa kit from 1973 which I had built before and I knew the problems with it. This was one of Hasegawa's early military kits, I'm not sure if it scales out at 1/72, the shape of the radiator grille is too wide, and the tracks are horrible.
I tried to modify the grille with three razor saw cuts and then gluing it all back together, other ways around that would have been to cover it over with a cold weather cover or to add some armour plating. The tracks were disguised with Bicarbonate of Soda and white glue as snow. The guns were replaced with brass wire, the muzzles are still to large but about as fiddly as I can do.
It's mounted on an old DVD covered with a thin layer of DAS and more Bicarbonate of Soda. I think the figure stated life as one of the Firemen from the Airfix Emergency Set with other bits added.
