Cabled up!

After a relatively speedy build of the main components of the Trumpeter L/15 Mörser "Bär" progess has now slowed with the weathering and fitting of the last few components. the latest of these being the towing cables fitted to the sides of the hull.

The cables themselves are lengths of copper multi strand wire that were supplied with the kit and two cut to length were superglued into four plastic towing eyes. Being copper makes them easy to bend but a pain to paint which was eventually achieved after being treated to an airbrushing of various paints.

Once painted there were a number of plastic clips that needed to be fitted to clasp the cable to the hull. Given that the hull was already painted, normal plastic cement was not going to work, so I used some superglue on the clips.

There are two cables, one on each side, so the clip operation was continued on the other side. The clips were then touched in to match the camouflage and the whole thing begins to look even more interesting.