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While waiting for these items to dry, small twigs were cut to length. These would represent the un-ditching logs carried on the left fender in front of the jerry can which were mounted on the rear of the fenders. Gator glue was again used to hold the stack together.
The un-ditching logs were put to one side as I did not want these to be painted with the tank, as this could affect the wood colour of the twigs.
Having checked the tarpaulins and net were dry, I decided that the tools would be underneath both sides so I figured the crew would have been moved. On the left fender I put a crow bar, an axe and a shovel which was pushed between the folded tarpaulins and the board. Two straps were now made from wine bottle lead foil and this was glued into place over the tarpaulins and the other to go over the tool handles.
This is an important thing to note with armour models, the fact that everything on the exterior of the vehicle has to be tied down as on the real thing because if it wasn’t it would be lost overboard. The same was done on the other side and a pick was added resting on the top of the netting and the head resting against the hull. All four straps had buckles added. These came from the spares box and were a Historex item of which these were from my last supply and I am not sure if they are still produced. They were glued over the foil and the plastic representation of the end of the strap was bent up. At this point the punch and die set was used to make the head for the brackets.
The next items which need to be modified were the mud scrapers which are oversized and incorrect in shape. These need to be fixed in place in front of the rear wheels
The front side of the scraper need to be cut down by about 1mm.
