Italeri 1/72 sd.kfz 232 6 Rad
I built this thing in a weekend and then stalled for several months while I figured out what to do with the overhead antenna array. Italeri moulded it far too thick and it looked more like the roll cage for a dirt track racer than an antenna. Several attempts at soldering together a new one from fine brass rod ended in disaster so in the end I scraped and sanded the kit part for a couple of hours until I got it down to where I could live with it. It's still too thick but a damn sight better than it was. I also sanded off the solid braces on top and replaced them with brass rod.
Other than that and replacing the little "feeler" thingies on the fenders with stretched sprue and globs of super glue painted white and drilling out the guns as usual there's nothing particularly special about this.
Paint is Humbrol Tank Grey (well, it would be, wouldn't it?!) with a wash of dark earth over the lower surfaces and a few paint chips done with Humbrol Metalcote Gunmetal. A very nice little kit that goes together quickly but it's a shame Italeri let us down with that clunky antenna array, especially when the supports are such fine mouldings. I'm not too happy with the flat moulded-on tools either but I was too lazy to sand them off and replace them.
	Left: This should have been a nice in-scale array soldered together from fine brass rod. Instead, it's a not-so-nice, not-very-scale thick plastic moulding that I spent a couple of hours scraping & sanding into submission with brass rod superglued on top. I've come to the sad realisation that the art of soldering is, unfortunately, not amongst my many talents.... ¦¬|
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