I decided to Kit Bash a British 1/100 scale Tank 15mm,and include it here along with others in this topic.
No instructions



Only seven pieces. This ought to be easy for me. I decided to fold up some A 4 Size sheets of paper ,and used it by placing the sprue onto it and cut each piece off. This lessons the vibration caused when cutting. Cut onto a flat hard cutting board and the vibration could break the thin flimsy plastic especially the track around the wheels. This happened when I was removing pieces from another kit.
Easy,it was not,i always screw up the first one because it is always a learning curb.
First i decided to glue the turret pieces together,and i put the glue onto the wrong side. Which was the outside rather than the inside right side. See what happens when there`s no instructions?
Secondly I glued up the hull,only to find out the wheels and combined track could not be aligned with the tiny guide pins. So i resorted to cutting them off,and they were glued perfectly in place.
Below shows where the tiny pins go through the three wheels.
These are snap together kits,so why the glue? The reason being the tiny guide pins and the plastic is very fragile,and should be handled as if glass. Click these things together and then decide to glue them,because they wobble results in the pins breaking off as you remove the pieces.
Showing the tiny pins that easily break off. I opened another box up to show this shot. No instructions again. OK one can reason where what goes ,but it is annoying to say the least.
All in all,i think Kit Bashing is apt for this topic.
The end result a nice tiny tank,and because i know now well the pitfalls involved ,the others should go together quick smart and in orderly fashion. BB