I have been moving slowly since the start of summer. I got deployed with the Guard for wildfire support up in Humbolt, what an odd place it is up there, but beautiful. Then vacation with the family to Utah to see the National parks in the area and see my wifes sister up in Tooele. I did find an M5 Stewart sitting around up there.
So I have been focusing on finishing this thing up, though I got distracted by doing all the mechanics on an M4a3 76 using a HL and Mato turret. I put it back down and decided I needed to follow through on the E8. The tool mounting. Also, while testing out a new battlefield, I was at full throttle and caught air, yes air, on a huge rut, and when I landed the .50 MG barrel clamp disappeared. Its a cast urethane part made by Nick for the kit, so I fabbed up one out of brass using the one from another kit as a pattern. Ooh that was a serious pain, every part you see in it is the second part because all the first ones disappeared one by one while I was building it.. Don't ask...
Any way, none of the tools are glued down. Tomorrow after work I will paint the hull and spray the tools in the areas that have the hull welded mount cast onto them. I will move on to individually painting and detailing the tools as I did on my M4a1 build.
Im on the home stretch now, I want to have this tank finished for the San Diego battle coming on 25 Oct.