The Upper Hull will be ready for a coat of paint, after the MG is fitted and the Turret too. The MG 3-part arrangement is bonded with 'Rubber Cement'; a product that has an enduring mystery attached to it on many model forums ('Fora-- for public squares..). In the event, I used 'Elmer's' rubber cement to bond the bits. It's a contact adhesive (apply, leave to dry for a few mins, and then press parts to be bonded together). It emerges though, from a query I posted on a thread here, that Tamiya may actually intend the employment of something like this (a CA super glue):
- Tamiya product for 'rubber cement' components
It's used in this location and elsewhere on the model indicated by the symbol of a blue tube sporting a letter 'G'. Tamiya are quite specific in stipulating its use instead of other cements; but they don't ever explain why. I'm guessing it's for parts that may need to be replaced, or moved, in future:
- Parts of MG rewiring 'rubber cement'
I actually lost the piece of fibre optic cable supplied with the model; the bit that goes down the barrel. Luckily, I'd bought 2 metres of 1mm finer optic cable for my Cromwell project, and I cut a piece of to fit the barrel
Here's what it all looks like when fixed together with Elmer's:
- MG glued together
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.
I actually wasted a fair amount of time to find it was actually useless to me anyway.
). It can put the tiniest amount of cement in the trickiest of locations without overspill. The brush in the Tamiya Cement bottle I have (as with the one in the ABS bottle) is pretty impractical here.
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)..it looks as if any turn past 3 o'clock (90 deg.) from 12 (0 deg.), and towards 9 o'clock anticlockwise, could have the effect of allowing the turret to detach, and drop off. 
