Very nice! Our remodel starts tomorrow. Hoping for as short a timeline as you.

Suggest using Tamiya-type masking tape, but before applying to the model, tape it to your skin and remove several times. The combination of repeated adhesions and the oil from your skin will reduce the tape's "stickiness" and likelihood of pulling off the paint.

We need new heroes

Very nice! Engines are something of a challenge, especially making them appropriately grimy. Looking forward to photos of painting and weathering!

Thanks for preparing this. It helps explain the series of important preservation laws and guidelines that can’t be bypassed.

Until an autocrat tosses over the whole process.

As if he cares…

The railroad and Comstock millionaires of the 1880s were probably equally intolerant of the Italians, Chinese, Germans, Irish, French, Portuguese etc… crowded around their mansions on Nob Hill.

Tell ‘em Heather. We’ve been in SF for four generations and each one was told they’d just missed a mythical golden age.

I was thinking the same thing. Have the M36 traveling down a very muddy lane with the tracks almost invisible in the goo. Thanks!

Not much room to tighten up here.

Hate to admit it, but rubber band tracks are becoming more attractive, especially when 40% of tracks (the portions where the track sag) are hidden from view by side skirts or fenders.

I wrote Tamiya asking if they could send a couple of extra links. In the meantime, I'll try to fiddle with the gap to put it under the fender or something to minimize its appearance. Like I've said before, every model I build has an "A" side and a "B." This M36 may have to Bs.

Both the drive sprocket and idler wheel are fixed in place to the hull. No maneuvering room.

De Anza wasn’t a missionary.
He was a Spanish expeditionary leader, military officer, and politician primarily in California and New Mexico under the Spanish Empire.