New Year is here for a few days already, everything got back to norm and I can carry on modelling. After basic assembly of cargo bed time has come for driver's section. There is not much details here, so I tried to add something extra. When browsing forums I found that many aircraft modellers apply clear film for "glass effect" onto their dashboards. Tried to follow this idea and I think it turned out very well. It is obviously bigger dashboard (scale is 1:25, paper planes are mostly 1:33) so I could even make couple pointers. 1 mm strip was cut out (graph paper is very useful) and rolled to diameter of each clock. Next clear film was fitted to back of dashboard cover (blue) and both parts - clocks and cover - joined together using super glue. Super glue leaves white residue on plastic or glass, so careful application is required.
Seats were thickened with card to applicable size, edges sanded down and aluminium foil used to wrap each one up. Method is very interesting and quite easy but requires painting. Basecoat colour & couple layers of randomly applied brown wash did the job. There are still couple of seats missing - folded seats for Flak gun crew at the back of driver's compartment but they are to be added up during last stage of detailing. Steering wheel has been bent out of copper wire and painted, tooth pick used as a rod. Have to mention that gear stick base (part 46g) is marked up in wrong place on the gear box, it does not cover with space to cut out in driver's section floor. Luckily I did not apply it when following numbers and now can fix it without any damage to the model.
When dry - fitting driver's section walls I encountered fitting problem, side walls were too long. From the other hand, better too long than too short - easier to cut down than add up in this case. I decided to make a cut just behind white line and use super glue for permanent joint. Seats, dashboard, pedals, steering wheel, battery were put together and whole cargo bed was fitted onto the chassis. To do that, I used small tabs of part 24 and inserted them in between parts 53 a and c that were not glued together during cargo bed assembly. There are fewer and fewer details left for the truck, but shaping up engine covers and fenders will be a challenge.
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