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I’m being productive today – a second post. Actually, I was productive yesterday, because that’s when I did the building, but you’ll see why you’re only reading about it now…

From this point on, unless otherwise stated or completely obvious, all abbreviations are written using the Latin alphabet.

As you already know, I moved my modelling “workshop” out of the kitchen and into a room rented specifically for the purpose. Of course, things didn’t go quite as smoothly as I’d hoped, and it took longer than expected.

But I finally managed to get the basic furniture, moved almost all the models and materials over, and yesterday I finally christened the new workspace!

As promised, I also started filming the builds again. I admit I’m a little rusty… I filmed yesterday and edited the video in the evening, but ran out of time to work on the sound. So today, after setting up Ivan’s cameras, I came home, watched a few YouTube explanations of how to do certain things, and you can see the result below.

Now, back to the model. I decided to continue the last model I had filmed: MENG’s SS-016 kit, representing the Russian 96K6 Pantsir-S1 air defence system in 1:35 scale.

Last time – almost a year ago – I thought I had nearly finished the first three steps. It turned out that I had missed two parts, C43 and C17, in step 2, so that’s where I picked things up:

Nothing complicated; it took a few minutes. To my surprise, while reading the old article, I realised I might have forgotten another part again – C21 🤣. Never mind. Tomorrow we’re having our weekly D&D session, Vecna: Eve of Ruin, at the studio, so I’ll check whether that’s true. If it is, I’ll sort it out on Thursday.

In step 3, I glued the engine and radiator to the chassis, so that omission has now been sorted out.

At least I finished this entire step. Or so I think, because looking at it now, I may have forgotten parts C22 and C23 🤣. Never mind; I’ll check those tomorrow too. The remaining parts weren’t particularly troublesome, as you can see for yourself if you decide to watch the video…

So, after around 30 minutes of work – plus another 45 minutes setting up cameras, lighting, audio and all the other wonders, since this was the first session, though at least I shouldn’t have to make any major rearrangements again – the progress is reasonably good:

Here is what the build looked like in real time:

I plan to continue on Thursday, after checking tomorrow whether I really have completed all the steps…