Reinforcements...

... from Ireland. The noble Kinch's kind gift arrived today - the first of the hoped-for reinforcements. My Lord Kinch sent me this old timer:

I only built one of them in my youth - it was, I remember, a rare beast on the local hobby shop shelves.

A straightforward kit:

But long-lived. Look at this date:

A world ago - only 20 years after the subject of the model was doing its worst, but it is now 50 years since the first plastic Airfix Stug hit the shelves. 1962 -  four years before UK manufacturing reached its zenith, six years before the pathetic, essentially misogynist 'summer of love', over a decade before we turned our back on our friends, both Antipodean and North Atlantic, and still in the happy days before social fragmentation made us into the mess we are in now.

Enough! After a quick check through some references, I set to work.

First, the hull:

And after...

Anyone know what it is to be yet?