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Looks great! You’ve done well to get your cuts so accurate!

Love what you've done to make the oleo boots. One of the things that irks me is having to remove the mold seam on springs or other things that don;t look good once you scrape them. Great stuff!

Panzer Gray, mate!

Did you pay extra for the holes?

Bravissimo!

Whoa! Some fantastic detail work there! Props to ZM, too.... they coulda made it so much simpler.

Those details are certainly amazing!

Intent is always good!

Dat's beautiful!

Mebbe you need to do a captured one? Perish the thought!

Welcome! We love Scots in Australia, too!

Thank you!

Jeff, the kit tracks on this Meng are three piece workable tracks that don;t require any cement. The whole suspension is quite alive with torsion bars and poly caps to keep everything moving. But since the schurzen hang down to the road wheels, there's really no reason to buy AM tracks unless there is some other reason they offend you.

I been kicking it on this Meng Leopard 2A4:

Eww!

Great work, Carl!

Nice idea with the foam. Rob.

MMMMMM...... bur-ger!

Covid 19 finally affects me! My wife went to the doctor and is told she meets enough criteria for a Covid 19 test. So, I call my employer and have a chat with a supervisor about my responsibilities and their action plan. I explain that it will take two days to get the result, and since the test is being taken Thursday morning, I wont see the results before Monday. "Stay at home until you get the results", he says. While my wife was out getting the test, my immediate supervisor called to see whether I wanted to take the time from long service leave, or sick leave, or annual leave. So... an unexpected 5-day weekend for me. Now I just have to worry about the test results. My wife is snoozing on the sofa, having taken the test this morning, while I model. As a teacher, she's always exposed to snotty nosed kids and we have a grand daughter who goes to daycare. After a couple of rapid-succession colds, possibly caught from our granddaughter, I started taking a Magnesium-Selenium supplement twice a day in hopes of reducing my suffering from colds and flu. I also gargle with original Listerine regularly to try to prevent a head cold from moving south. My prevention seems to work pretty well as I haven't had a nasty chest cold in quite some time.

Interesting comparison. But the MG 42 was well advanced for a machine gun, and the R4M was a very early rocket. I doubt much was done to the 42 to make it a G3.

Thanks for the great responses and the great photos, guys! I love those factory shots! Imagine how modelling would be if they had developed (no pun intended) decent color film before the outbreak of WWI. That blue on the p-40's is totally interesting! Anybody know anything about it? Gaz

Yea! Crew!

I really like the look of things right now!

Thank you! Actually, many of the early 'Mg-3's' were actually had MG 42 still stamped on the receiver. But I haven't looked up the complete rundown on the MG-3. I image outside of some small external differences, everything is the same except that it got altered a bit to use disintegrating belts like the M-60 uses.

Looking sweet! Gotta say, those ammo belts look fabulous!