Thanks JP.
It's not actually a Stryker, but a LAV III, which is the base vehicle that the Stryker is based on....
I used Humbrol enamel 86, light olive, and dusted with Mig Pigments "gulf war" sand

Scott: that looks great. Might have to add it to my collection of 8 wheelers...after the Boxer.
Alexander: That's increadible. When I saw the picture with the € coin....wow! Such detail at that scale...

Nice build, Scott. Looking forward to see it with some colour on it.

I have decided to go for the Dragon 1/35 BTR-80 for this campaign. I will spice it up a bit with the Eduard PE set.
I have not decided on the camouflage yet, but I have found a lot of interesting schemes for this kit on the net, but I am not sure I have the guts to try the top one.

Jesper I like the last camo, but the SFOR looks good if you have the right decals.
The first decal looks weird... like a ACME camo

I have just started an Italeri SdKfz 234/1 as a quick and easy build, and to clear some cardboard that SWMBO keeps on at me about. I do have some pictures from the start of the build and would like to know if it is accetable for me to join this campaign with it?

This is the start of the new Canadian Cougar from Trumpeter. I'm building it out of the box. I have just some PE and the barrel to add and then its off to the paint booth.

Another update:

- Be aware that the gun platform takes a huge amount of space and if the arms are not well aligned it will be hard to fit the upper hull.






edit:
The last pic is a little blurry, sorry.
The first and second pic have some different lightning. and there's also some tape securing the fender.
There's a small gap that will have to be worked between the upper and lower hull parts, due to the gun platform that is making constant pressure on the upper hull.
I blame Dragon instructions ... installing the gun platform should have been at least 2 steps before, and also to show us where the platform arms join the upper hull. I haven't done it since it's impossible to fit .. nevermind my ranting..

Another small update, no pics this time.
The fenders on the previous pics have the small gaps filled with Mr Surfacer.
Let it dry for 1 day and painted with the same Drk Yllw, kept the Brown Camo too.

The painted instructions have a kind of Nato Green, much lighter with a 3 tone camo or a brown camo over dark yellow. Not sure which to paint..
Tomorrow I will continue with the brown camo coats and work on the other small details (equipment and front & rear fenders details).

Stay tuned

Hay great work going on here. I have made some progress the first of the paint is on.


By sudzonic at 2011-06-22

Nice job Scott !!
Hope to see it weathered soon...

I will post some pics this weekend, I'm working on the fender details (front & rear) and on building the gun itself.
Slowly but I hope to have some pics soon !

Thanks John.

Here is the latest pic.


By sudzonic at 2011-06-23

Nice looking construction Alexander, Paul, Zon and Scott. Jesper look forward to your project...interesting camo options.

I am on vacation and actually brought my cutting board, kit and construction tools. I hope to get a full day of building in this weekend.

Tony

I'll post these and get back to the bench...









Still a lot to do this weekend...

John,
Look forward to updates.

I took my cutting board, tools, adhesives, and kit to West Virginia and back. Kit never got touched. Oh well.

Tony

PS Friendly reminder to post pictures of your finished kits in the campaign photo gallery.

Tony, first of all enjoy your vacations, if you can take some time to build ...do it !
As to my 234/4, I added the back and front details and kept working on the gun itself.
After this I will begin working on the tools, boxes and jerrycans.

Hi Everyone,
well unfortunately. i'm going to say that i won't be able to finish my LAV III TUA. now that the strike/lockout is over where i work i went to get the stuff i need to finish only to find them out of stock!! grrrr!! Congrats to all the completed Wheeled thingies they all look great!

What are you short of Ian? If I can help I will...seeing as your TUA inspired me to do mine....

thanks glad i was inspiring someone. I'm short 2 sets of armour corps resin continuous tie downs

Nice builds going on here.
On to my midget Sdkfz 234

Finished the hull building, hand painted the camo scheme and did some fading with the airbrush.


I found some time to work on the turret. I was surprised how well the pieces matched.



The barrel is from Schatton Modelbau, the mg42 is from a Dragon set, the 20mm magazine from the spare box. The PE from the PART set.

The turret painted and on model.




More soon, P.A.

That's really small Alexander...

I finished the Pak gun for the 234/4 last Friday.
I started painting this afternoon and will do the tires tomorrow.
Equipment & jerrycans this week...

I lend my camera so no pics for a week...

So I hope to post the finished kit next time.

P.A.: some nice work there!!

Happy Modelling, -zon

Some really great stuff here... here's my humble effort:



I'm now going to stop tinkering with the weathering and call it Done!

After a good day of modeling I made progress on hull and turret weathering.
Here is the model prior to weathering.


After some washes, chipping and oil filter.






Next is weathering the underhull with pigments, attaching the wheels and applying filter dots.

Thanks for watching.

More soon, P.A.

Sean: Looks good. Congrats.

P.A.: nice weathering. Looking good.

Happy Modelling, -zon

Thanks Zon

Alexander, that's looking great!

Well I finally finished it, has been done for a while, but took me a while to get the pics uploaded. Hope you enjoy.