Project #1 - Assesing the damage

This is the M1A1 as I got it home from it's long stay at the hobby shop. As you can see the tow cables are missing on either side of the turret. The missing side pod came off while I was examining the model. Overall it's in pretty good shape, but lets look at those problem areas in a bit more detail...



The side pod was broken off while assessing the model. Care will need to be taken when mounting it back in place to avoid showing a glue line.



Here we see where, in an effort to touch up the paint where the water stains were, some overspray found it's way onto the amunition boxes.

In this picture we see that there was a little overspray with the darkening color on the left side decal. This picture was actually taken after I began to lightly sand off the overspray from the decal area only.