Hej Andreas.
Looking good. Love the weathering ... the dirty lower hull and running gear looks appropriate, but made better that you also have a dusty effect on the horizontal surfaces. Many forget this and have them too clean up top. I checked through some images of the points raised in this thread and found these.
Unlike the German torsion bar system, the suspension arm does not appear to fall down on the T34.
The area around the flame thrower does not look overly sooty, oily or heat damaged, if compared to the opposite side. There does appear to be some oil running away from it, but nothing over the top. The fourh image is a tank and exploaded internally, and although it looks much darker, its hard to say what affect the explosion had on this, but even here it is relatively clean. Personally, I would take the artistic approach and highlight it with some soot, oil stains and heat damage .... just to make it stand out more.
I had the same problem with the magic tracks on my T34. I formed them completely around the roadwheels with no breaks and left them for 24 hours to set. When I removed the running gear to paint seperatly, I attempted to assemble it first so I could be sure it would assemble after painting, but it was way too tight. I ended up gluing everything in place and painting it assembled instead.
It would be cool to use the empty straps where the extra fuel cells are missing. Some sculpted tarps and tools stored here would look cool? Even a suitable shifting "log" on this fender would give it an interesting dimension?
