And it's off to the acetone bath for all the lovely little white metal bits, followed by a wash with Dawn dish soap.
I am not going to claim the sorting is perfect, but each box contains the bits from a couple of baggies, subsequently separated into stuff that sort of looks alike following a quick scan of the instructions.
The real keeners are putting all this through a magnetic jewellery tumbler, a step I have not yet engaged in. I figure period castings were relatively rough, and this will get hidden by paint. And speaking of paint, I'm going to need a bucket of aluminum and silver paints.
Next the resin bits got a wash and rinse in Dawn soap. There are only two body panels in metal, and they seem to fit the resin shell reasonably well, so perhaps the issues encountered recently in certain other MFH 1/12 kits with mixed resin and metal bodies have been sorted.
Next was test fitting the engine bits, which involved lots of filing and drilling. But first I had to identify all the engine bits ... easy enough for the bigger bits but as always there are loads of its bitsy widdle bits.
Drilling and filing generated a lot of scarf.
It's looking decent so far.
Paint is next. Next post will document engine assembly. Stay tuned!
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