WMD - Woody's Modelling Diary

It was a case of masking tape woes as I head back to building the Italeri Mercedes-Benz Actros MP4 started at the beginning of the year. The...

Finally! The weather was warm, the sky bright, no rain and I had the time! These factors coming together meant that I could continue with sp...

Waiting for some warmish and dryish, note the accommodating 'ish' as anything near to warm and dry will do, weather to finish painti...

With some warmer and drier weather I had another go at painting the cab components of the Italeri Mercedes-Benz Actros MP4 with a rattle can...

Sometimes you take a risk and it works out. Other times it doesn't! I took a risk in trying to paint the cab of the Italeri Mercedes-Ben...

It's now time to think about the cab itself on the Italeri Mercedes-Benz Actros MP4 kit and the main parts make up an entire sprue. I co...

One of the reasons why Mrs. Woody prefers to avoid my advice on décor and colour combinations is perhaps best explained by the colours I hav...

I could not help but smile and take a photo as I parked my bike up at a village store whilst out on a cycle ride this morning and these two ...

Moving onto the interior of the Italeri Mercedes-Benz Actros MP4, it all looks a bit grey at the moment so to add some variety, I cannot say...

 Following the WMD film crew's YouTube production these are the rear light units of the Italeri Mercedes-Benz Actros MP4. Initially, the...

There are so many small jobs to do on the Italeri Mercedes-Benz Actros MP4 which take time to do but are important to achieving a realistic ...

 The WMD film crew have been busy with another epic production!  How do you attach transparent kit parts without glue marks is the subject o...

Time to actually get the wheels permanently attached to the chassis. Italeri, do mould the parts such that the wheels rotate. Now much as I ...

I have got to the stage with the Italeri Mercedes-Benz Actros MP4 kit where I can temporarily put the wheels on and see if I have built the ...

Much as people think that I move in a shadowy World, the types of shadow that I am talking about here are the ones that are created on a mod...

With some warmer weather it was time to do some paint spraying. A lengthy session resulted in many of the parts for the Italeri Mercedes-Ben...

The instructions for the Italeri Mercedes-Benz Actros MP4 kit suggest a gunmetal grey colour for the chassis. Normally the types and era of ...

It can steer! Well to the right anyway! The steering beam axel has now been fitted to the main chassis of the Italeri Mercedes-Benz Actros M...

 With the underside of the cab sorted, my attention now turned the the upper side cab interior of the Italeri Mercedes-Benz Actros MP4. Temp...