This is a short report on my current project: It is huuge!
It was a family gift for New Year and since I finished the last build just before the holidays, I started out on it right away. I am now about 70 hours in this project centered around Trumpeters' #00215 dated 2007.
See also:
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/trumpeter-00215-moerser-karl-geraet-040-041--104832
It is a fairly nice kit. There are some issues with it though, mailny the rubber band tracks featured with the kit. These are no good at all so I replaced them with Trumpeter #02053 plastic tracks instead. Other than that, the kit shows its age a bit and there are many round elements in it that are to be joined in two halves, thus requiring careful sanding. I got an aftermarket PE kit for it as well but the use of it is limited: The model builds very nice OOB.
I would never have bought this kit myself: The box is huuge and allows for building all versions of this heavy mortar used in the seige of Sebastopol and the Warsaw uprising amongst other key WWII events. I knew the kit though and when it landed on my lap as a gift, I was very happy.
I am now ath the stage where I dry fit the tracks including application of sag. When that is done, I will adde further details and bring this build to the painting and weathering stage. Some parts on the real deal were cast Iron so I took care adding surface texture on them using thinned putty. I don't know for sure yet what to do with it when finished other than placing it in my display case, but I think I will make a little dio around it.
Thanks for checking in and happy modeling!
Michel.