This model all but builds itself! Beautifully engineered, it goes together quickly and construction is in small, logical steps. It's a vacation compared to the job of putting together the Bronco Gaz-69A. This model could easily - and enjoyably - be built in a weekend (sans the ZPU-1 gun).
Here's most of the interior:
I fixed the solvent drop on the back seat.
I was going to paint it, but I'll leave it in plain white plastic and scruff that up. I've started by using War Pigs black, gray and brown washes on it. The crosshatch on the cabin roof is a shadow from the screen door:
Most of the sub-assemblies are just tacked or press-fit on. The cab clicks into place, so I'm not even going to glue it down. The hood and tires are loose and so is the rear bed section (hence the gap):
The cab window area is a separate piece, making painting the trim a breeze. The only
minor construction issues so far have been the cab's separate rear window (which took some sanding to fit) and the plastic bar that allows the front wheels to be steered. The bar kept popping off, so I used a piece of tape, superglued and painted black, to hold it down.
I've heard that the ZPU-1 gun is fiddly, but I'm not going to use it on this build. I'll build something like this:
Only with a M240 or a M2.
I may call it "Excession* Risk Management"
*"the kind of problem "most civilizations would encounter just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop."
