Well, the Legend ASLAV udate arrived and I'm not sure what I think of it yet.
I just came from a bout of surgery (nothing serious), but I'll be spending the next week convalescing, so I'll probably be doing a bit of tinkering.
Straight up, although the kangaroo's a novelty, it won't be much use for a vehicle in this configuration, because they were in Iraq, and I didn't see many roos hopping about over there!
Looking at the pix, I'm not sure that Legend got the turret bar arour right, but it will take me a whille to get to that stage and I'll do a bit of research in the mean time.
Legend supply a new engine deck, which is the same length as the old one overall, but the front louvres are a bit bigger. When you fit the deck, take the "meat" off the resin on the starboard side - ie, the opposite side to the driver's hatch.
The old hatch dremeled out and the replacement ready to be fitted:
The new deck set in place, although a bit of tidying is needed ... note how the glacis engine hatch didn't line up with the armour fillet forward of the front louvre. If I was doing another one I'd probably glue the glacis hatch in first and the leave the kit hull louvre in place so I was deailing with fitting right angles:
This isn't going to be a definitive ASLAV build, I just one that looked like the vehicles I saw when I was in Iraq in 2005. Tomorrow I'll tidy up the engine deck joins and do some masking for non slip surfaces while pondering if I should tone down the weld seams in the hull.
