Hanomag's Completed Interior...Minus the Painting

This blog post has been sitting in a relatively drafty sort of state for over two months now, so I think it's time to finish it up. As I mentioned in the previous post, the innards of the Hanomag are pretty sparse, and what do you know? I was right! I knew you would believe me. It's on the Internet, that's how you know it's true. Let's move on and take a look at the build.

The seats got a little squished in there. Not exactly sure what happened. Maybe I pushed the floor down too far in an effort to secure the front axle? This kit is designed to have moveable wheels and I'm building it that way. There are slots on the bottom of the floor that line up with the bottom of the chassis to hold the axles in place without glue. In the future, I think I'll probably just glue them. I won't be running this on the floor making "pew-pew" sounds when it's done. Model airplanes are a little easier to test fly when the wings are on.

I had to install the wheel shafts before installing the floor. After completing the shafts and installing the floor, I skipped ahead and installed the fenders. As you can see they go into guide holes on the vehicle. I think the plan was that the benches that go in would hide the holes. After a dry fit of the benches, that was not the case. At least not hidden enough for me!

I figured that having those holes even partially visible would have annoyed the heck out of me, so I taped them up and got that lovely green putty in there. Some of the putty squished to the outside I had to clean up. The holes on the other side will be hidden by storage containers.

In order to prep the interior for painting I had to jump ahead and install the armor on the view holes...ports...windows, or whatever you would like to call them.

The cleaned up benches and the rear doors.

The sanded holes. A bit dirty in there from all the dust, but I'll get it cleaned out before priming.

The completed interior.

That's it. I think I'm finally posting now. Next step will be to prime and paint the interior, finish the exterior and prime and paint. Don't worry I'll post some pictures of that process...when I get there. This post lacked a bit of humor this time around, so I'll conclude with Calvin and Hobbes.