Here you can see one before thinning and one after thinning side by side…
![Image](https://i.postimg.cc/J03SYQp0/IMG-8630.jpg)
After that was all finished, I glued them in place and let them dry. Once dry I did a little fine tuning of sand if and roughing up the edges to make them look more realistic. I also added the drivers vision flap and bow machine gun ball mount
![Image](https://i.postimg.cc/dQ8M0qJF/IMG-8631.jpg)
![Image](https://i.postimg.cc/9FV6Rvf7/IMG-8632.jpg)
and lastly for today, I added some putty zimmerit on the turret front sides behind the mantlet, where Italeri neglected to add that feature…
![Image](https://i.postimg.cc/DygtqBWY/IMG-8633.jpg)
More to come in a day or two…