The hull interior is almost ready, with weathering and small details all but added. The engine compartment is a huge sub-assembly on its own; it would be a model by itself, really. The very thin plastic parts are a bane of the modeler here – the same as with any MiniArt models, really.
Well, time to push this build. This is truly a marathon, and it is very easy to become fatigued with the model or losing interest. It is important to keep motivating yourself; a source of motivation for me is to see it coming together. For the longest time I only had some disjointed jumble of plastic, but now I have something that resembles an actual vehicle. Now the trick is not to rush it because, honestly, I am getting a bit tired with it, and getting very keen on starting a new project. Now that I have a Grant-shaped thing, I am going systematically through the building instructions and finishing off smaller steps I skipped. (When building and painting it is often necessary to re-order the suggested building order.) So once the engine is installed I added a bunch of tubing and whatnot -to be painted later.
Once the engine compartment is done, I add the few missing details to the fighting compartment, and start working on the turret…
The Butterfingered Modelbuilder's Adventures 
Fantastic work.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thank you. It honestly looks better in person (the camera is a cruel mistress -for example it looks dirtier here than in real life), but I am not very satisfied with how it turned out. There are some fit issues for the hull and superstructure, for example, and the usual struggle of shaving off sprue attachment points from hair thin parts make it less than ideal-looking.
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