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Been working on this one for way too long. The prototype is a Polish license build of a German Lanz hot-bulb engine tractor. Got to the point were I was starting to paint it and decided I didn't like some stuff, so starting a rebuild of the main body parts. Remember its the journey! This was the first printed booklet one that I'd got into. The ones I'd been working on had been freebie download, so this was the next step up. The first major challenge was what few instructions there were was in Polish. So bought a Polish-English dictionary at a used book store. Them found an emulator keyboard on the web, that would let me retype the instructions so I could enter them into Google translate. Then I was ready to go. First as a backup I scanned the booklet pages and printed them out on cardstock. The advantage of this is if you screw something up, you don't have to go buy another kit or beg friends for parts, as if you have a dozen friends building Ursus tractor models. Luckily I'd already had a digital caliper to measure paper thickness with. Then it was cut, fold, score and glue. I decided didn't really like the way the rear tires were looking, so figured out using matt board to create bigger lugs for the tires. Overall for the first time, thought they came out pretty good. Would have liked more sidewall detail, but didn't find any reference photos for early 1950's era Soviet block tractor tires.