Okay, first photo update in a while, but also last one for a bit because I'm going to have to put this one on hold while I do something for the Coulda Woulda Shoulda GB.
I originally painted the two turreted vehicles with Humbrol Bronze Green, but I thought it was too dark (scale colour and all that). However I then noticed that Revell Bronze Green was a bit lighter so that's now the standard base colour. I also used a Revell "not quite black" colour for the cammo on the FSV, but it came out patchily glossy. Not sure if that's down to the paint itself or the heat making it dry fast, but unfortunately, it's almost exactly the wrong way around: FV-432s had a glossy bronze green finish from the factory and then got random patches of very matt black applied by the units. What I might do is give them a coat of satin varnish then overpaint the black with a thinned version of itself and see how that works.
The Section Vehicle is finally staying together: I've glued it together twice in the last week, only to have it fall apart again...
Not sure what the problem was: it's been very hot here which might have affected the glue, but on the other hand, it was Revell Contacta from the new plastic bottles that failed and the stuff that worked was from an older glass bottle, so I wonder if the glue is reacting with the bottle in some way?
The turret is the "big option" from an Airfix/JB Saracen and it's on a collar to raise it up, but it still looks lost... I replaced the Browning MG barrel with it's perforated jacket with a more modern GPMG one, made from two bits of brass wire on a revised mounting.
