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Steven Van Dyck autor
The wheels are prepared, it's a full day of sanding the sprocket teeth and road wheel surfaces. The cabin appears to be white, though that is not mentioned in the instructions. I Ieft the seats as a dry-fit. The cabin bottom needs to be competely trimmed, this is not sufficiently done in production.

Steven Van Dyck autor
The first building step contains an error. The number of road wheels to be prepared is supposed to be 12, but the s300v got 14 of them. So don't thrash the sprues yet, there are enough of them for 15 wheels.

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Steven Van Dyck autor
The cabin details are now painted and it is closed up. Some decals for instruments are included but not all of them, it seems. I painted some instruments on myself. I also applied 3 meshes on the engine compartiment.

Steven Van Dyck autor
About 25 per cent of the Masterclub tracklinks are completed, and this took me a complete day. That's beceause I decided to put an extra end of wire in, completing the resin pins through the middle of the links. If not, one break in the resin pins would cause the track to spring. This is demonstrated in the middle of my assembly, only the brass thread keeping the track together while the two resin pins broke. But getting the soft metal links straightened out after pressing them together has already caused 4 of them to crack. hope to get to the end with enough of them for 2 tracks. The rockets seem fantastic with almost 30cm length. I first worried to only have got one booster engine (see the spreadout at the beginning), but Trumpeter has clamped the second one firmly inside the first one. The only problem is the absence of fitting slots, so lining out needs to be carefully referenced. There is a panel in the warhead and a duct on the booster engine that need to line up according to my reference. I completed the exhaust mesh, but decided to pre-paint the inside. I also adapted the rear-view mirrors with a piece of Earth-Metal residue. Milling the plastic base parts made them crack in 4, so I had some reconstruction to do.