Hi Edo, and Gregory,
The Paintwork:
I deliberated over this paint scheme for a while purely because I wondered if I could paint the black lines!
In the end , I used a thin 000 brush, some matt black paint, thinned to the consistency of ink, and handpainted around the colour shapes. The colour shapes were painted freehand :, the green base airbrushed first, then the yellow and clay brown patches by brush.
It was slow work, and I could only do twenty minutes at a time. Don't try to do too much too quickly.
I tried to copy the paint chart supplied with the kit - the artwork has been done by Mig Jiminez of Mig Ammo.
His artwork looks great but the side elevations and top do not match up the colour shapes so you pretty much have to use a bit of artistic license to get everything to join up.
There are quite a few surviving Morsers around the world, if you take a look on google, it will show up a lot of images with different paint finishes.
The gun in Brussels is in it's original paint, although somewhat blackened. There are also images of this morser on the net if you do a search.
Lastly, the small support brackets , parts c21, and c22 are really fragile. Despite my best efforts, I still managed to break one.
I decided to use the lower mounting brackets of these parts, glue them onto the gun carriage, and then replaced the thin struts with short lengths of brass 0.5 mm wire,,superglued into small holes drilled into the mounting brackets moulded onto D7 and D8.
One last tip: I would recommend glueing the inside support struts parts C28, C29, onto the inside of the gunshield first.
You can then paint the whole caboodle off the gun, and then glue it on last, rather than risk misaligning the struts or accidentally breaking them, if you glue them onto the sides of the gun as the instructions suggest.
Anyway good luck with your builds everyone, it will be good to see some other interpretations of the morser on the site soon.
Steven- these Morser spoked wheels are somewhat more agricultural than the magical model micro-engineering you were producing!😉
Dave
