Thanks again folks for those kind words.
Progress was good today, fiddled with the undercarriage legs, sorted out the gun sight, would you believe that it was attached to the sprue by its reflector! As it so happens the reflector was way out of proportion so cutting back and re-polishing was something that had to be done anyway.
Here is the undercarriage with all the cables attached for the retraction mechanism. Though about doing the springs, but sh!t, there is a limit......
You will also be pleased to know Karl that I did manage to snap the olio leg, don't ask me how, it had been off the sprue and painted a couple of days ago, I had even got the cables on with no worries. But when I looked at it later, it was fractured.
Have also been out in the shed and put some paint on the fellow, a nice bit of yellow tipping and waist belt. The underside is also in a trial pale blue, Humbrol 65 but the final underside blue will be the Soviet AMT 17.