I am a little late to the party with this one. It has been sitting in the stash as I worked on other things. I am not going to do a full build, but just hit the highlights of what I am fixing and modifying.

Transmission has 3 large glaring problems with it


Made some dowels to fit the shape of the holes


I sanded the dowels down until they sat just below the surface and filled with CA glue


Lots of sanding and shaping later: no more holes. When I filled the hole toward the rear of the gear box it left a dome shape. I liked it so, I left it.


Shocks were not sitting in the springs as neatly as I wanted them to.


Had to turn small ID washers into large ID washers


Simple jig I made to hold the washers as I bored them out.


I still don't like how the shock absorbers sit. When they flex from weight they are peeling the paint off the inner shaft. I will need to have a think about it.


Just used some Tamiya flat black to fill in the space.


There is supposed to be a pattern on the smaller cooling radiator. I just used some pieces of a screen door repair kit to make something interesting. Not great, but better then nothing.


Used Roy's decals for the dash. I hated the gold toggle switches they used for this model so I painted them gloss black and chrome. If I had a 3D printer I would have made some proper ones.


I sanded off the fuse bodies and replaced them with some fiber optic I had lying around from my Yamato kit to simulate the glass tubes they used back then and painted the ends copper.


Finished dashboard.


Red brake calipers for a little bit of color.


That is it for this update.