Hi I had some time off while I was getting my airbrush back in shape so I started building this. It's the Tamiya's OIF boxing and I want to try to get it to shape. It falls great and it's a fast build. I'm adding some Voyagers PE parts to it and some scratchbuilding to get it to current USMC specs. I was looking at the great article by Vodnik to see what's needed so here's the start.

I used tamiya's epoxy putty to clog the motorization holes. Perhaps it's a dumb thing to do, since it won't be seen, but I don't like these at all. I still have to do the one above the sprocket base. The lower hull is as it is. I'm not going to remove the center box type structure. It's a thing that will stay.



The entire anti slip coating is done with rough cote spray by colors warhammer people use. It works nice





I removed the raised lip on the driver's hatch opening, as it's not there on the real thing.





The TI phone box is scratchbuilt with the hinge from Voyagers set. I still need to add more details to it.



I soldered some stuff together. The longest time I spent was assembling the reserve smoke grenade boxes





These too.. I noticed one part fell off



I started detailing the APU box. I need some L channel to make the cable routing channell so this still needs to be done



This is the overall look so far







thanks

Mario,

looking great.
I especially admire the anti-slip coating (will have to give it a try).

Accuracy-wise I am not qualified enough to comment, so I will leave it to others.

Keep it up!

Mario,

I concur. The non-slip work looks really good. I am especially impressed by the super thin lines you were able to achieve between sections!

John