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Have a Break

The 1/35th scale "M-ATV" kit by Kinetic has been sitting in my stash for a while. In spite of the many bad reviews I had heard about this kit and the fact that it was removed from production to be re-released by Kinetic, I decided to give it a go.

As expected the kit was full of problems which included: several serious mistakes on the assembly guide, missing parts in the trees, mismatch...etc. I had seen several reviews online and many of them were clearly stating the problems with the kit and how to correct them. Some have even posted a corrected copy of the instructions. Without these modifications the kit would have been surely ruined. That Said the M-ATV is a very interesting and fun vehicle to assemble, the kit has a very highly detailed undercarriage but lacks a lot of details on upper part and the inside of the vehicle. Therefore a lot of scratch details were added both on the interior and the exterior to reach an acceptable level of detail.

I have also created a Diorama for the Vehicle in Iraq using the MB figure kit and called it "Have a break”. I used a very beat up look for the M-ATV and gun shots to show that it had seen a lot of action; I used the figures to depict soldiers leaving all this war and action and taking a moment for a kind "Human Break".

In conclusion I would not recommend this kit to anyone as it took a lot of time and effort in my still inexperienced hands, it would be much better to wait for the new release or go for another brand kit. That said, I believe it came out more or less as I imagined it and I had a lot of fun doing the model and the Diorama.