When parts don't look right.

Despite everything else that has been going on, my job of finishing the Italeri DAF 95 Canvas truck has progressed - just not as quickly as I had planned!

I have started with fitting the side underrun guards which has inherent problems. When Italeri produce a kit like the DAF Canvas truck, the basically modify one of their tractor unit kits and add the body from one of their trailer kits. The result is that not everything fits as it should and the guards are an example.

On the one side the kit part fits nicely once I added some extra bracing from plastic strip and angle so that it mounted to the bottom of the cargo body securely. It just needs painting black now that it is mounted.

But on the other side there is no way that it looks right as it covers half the fuel tank and shrouds the filler cap.

To cure this, Mr. Saw came out and sectioned the part.

Out of the remains a shorter guard was fabricated which once smoothed and painted should do the job nicely!