My friends, we’re in business (Patreon)

As the title says, King Kong is starting to look serious!

First of all, I want to sincerely thank you for your help with the waterproofing. There are two pictures at the end showing how over the top and hideous it could actually look! I took some artistic license here and combined strips of cloth with asbestos paste to seal the stacks and engine compartment. Something that will be fun to paint but won’t overpower the rest of the model. I also believe that most of this substance was removed rather quickly for ease of maintenance and other common tasks, and it left some residue.

Now, the Lanmo conversion is IMO the weakest part of this project. The PE meshes are too thick and I don’t have a suitable replacement, but the PE in general feels rather bulky and out of scale. Now, I can assemble a set of functional German tool clamps and have fun while doing so, but assembling clamps for these stacks was so bad that I only had nerves for one pair.

The orange resin parts are printed well although the telephone box was detached and not printed fully, but the stacks are printed in white resin and sport horrible print lines on every surface. My initial plan was to cover them with styrene and add welds, but applying a thick layer of diluted putty and gentle sanding fixed the issue. As for welds, I’ll fake them with silver paint during the chipping stage 😊

However, it’s still the best USMC Sherman conversion because it’s the only one so far.

I think the wood plank armor is the next step!!!

P. S.: a few years ago we realized that seam lines on some model parts are actually realistic - rubber wheel cladding, towing eyelets, etc. Now we’re starting to slap superglue over the entire model in a very messy fashion on purpose. What’s the next step in this evolution? 😂