Bombardier sidewalk plow: Completed (#1 for 2018)

I'm going to call this one done, with one or two exceptions, just in time to help with cleaning up the 30 cm (that's a foot for the metric-impaired amongst you) of fluffy white stuff that fell on Saturday.

I screwed up the glass (sliced up Falcon windshield) but apart from that it turned out OK -- maybe I'll see about another approach specifically for the windsheild. Mirrors are from AMT's Dodge Stealth kit.

The red tool box came from the military kit that served as a basis for all this, and was likely meant to be munitions storage. I like the shovel, pick axe and jack attached to the right rear fender. This baby means business!

Still to do: hinge for the canopy to tilt up and forward, and a piece of chain to hold the plow off the pavement. Stubby exhaust pipes jutting out of the mufflers on the fenders wouldn't look out of place either. All will have to wait for the end of renovations and my move back into my home -- this was done, because I was going stir-crazy being away from the bench since late November, with minimal tools and essentially no access to the boneyard.

Let it snow!

For the record: the basis was Japanese Medium Tank Type 97 (1/35 Tamiya kit #3575), although any cheap kit of a light tank would do; engine is a blown Pontiac 421 (Revell parts pack); interior and canopy from AMT's Ford Falcon Ranchero; plow from the Revell GMC pickup kit.