Here you can see my holding stick, it works a treat. I hate putting on the undercoat because it always shows up hours of extra work that need to be done and not to mention all the short falls in ones skills. One of my biggest short comings is that I just can't seem to get the super glue thing under control and the sloppy "overglue" areas realy show up with a white undercoat. Anyway I'm on the home straight now, only a couple of weeks i reckon??

The undercoat is on. I've used Gunze Mr Base White due to it's sticking power, although so far I've not found it to be any more resistant to scratching than any other paint.

The Hinges

Finaly I've managed to get the resin to pour without air bubles and I'm pretty happy with the result too. The Model I used to cast the mold from was the Italeri King Tiger I built last year, the interesting thing is that the silicon molding material managed to pick up the texture of the paint on the hinge surface, impresive.
I'm very happy with the job i did and for once i have exceded my expectations, although I'm not so happy with the placement on the tank, the one on the right is a little crooked.
Well now that's done I can get on with painting the thing, i hope to get the undercoat on today, at long last.

Finaly we can move forward again. I have just finished a mold making/resin casting course so i can now make the final 'parts', those that are either missing from this kit such as the hinges on the engine deck or others that are to badly reproduced to use ie. the spare track links and the machineguns. I'll be using Dragons Panther G for the track links and tow cable ends and thier King tiger for the MG34 as they are the best I've seen in plastic.
For the engine deck hinges i cast a mold from the Italeri King Tiger. So far so good, but I'm having terrible trouble casting the resin parts from the mold as the parts are so thin, I'm having a lot of airbubble trouble. I think my mold is too small, but i still have an idea or two up my sleeve.