Stages 3 to 9 cover the assembly of the 4 driven axles & their suspension sets. All 4 axles are beautifully detailed with excellent parts fit. The front & rear axles both have ‘pose-able’ although not fully ‘working’ steering with a good amount of lock. Here, I decided early in the build to set the steering on a lock. For anyone building the kit & doing the same thing, remember the rear axle in a driven rear tag set up will always turn in the opposite direction to the front axle. I confess though my rear axle displays a bit too much lock with hindsight.
A good number of the finely etched brass parts start to creep in by this stage too. All of the brass wear comes sandwiched between sheets of lightly self adhesive clear film for their protection. Several etched frets are duplicated to make up the quantities required & all frets are packed with stiff card between them. Very impressive! The etched brass is also very high tech, it being both half etched on both sides & then re-etched very lightly in places where extra fold lines occur.
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