I noticed that too. An easy fix that I'll take care of. Currently casting all of the extra gear that is going to adorn her. lol. Thanks, "Q"

Great work Matthew!

Lars

Thanks Lars. I have cast some of the extra gear for it, and also went thru my box of spare IDF gear from past builds that met an untimely death Buried somewhere underneath all that is a Tamiya M-113. Trying to figure out a somewhat logical stowage plan is proving to be a tough nut to crack, Had I built up the interior, and left the rear cargo hatch open it would have been easier, but.... I have to deal with this as best I can . More pics to follow as I make progress. Thanks, "Q"

First steps into my entry, a BMD-1 from SKIF.



Don't like this plastic.. don't like the fitting...

Hi all,
here is an update of my work. I did the wiring of the various lights, added their protective plates on the external fuel cells, improved the gunner hatch lock, made some chains for the smoke dischargers and the towing hook. I also modified the trim vane to make it rest on the front hull. AFV should have create a kind of hollow and the "bumpers". If you put the part without modification you'll get a trim vane way too oblique.
AFV give some PE parts. The ones that need bending are too stiff and no recessed line is present to help the shaping !
Here are the pictures

















Olivier

That does it. I'll be buying one today. Despite the problems you mentioned Olivier, it looks to be coming along very well. Thanks for posting pics of your progress. Think you'll finish before the end of the month? Sure hope so as I'd like to see one built and painted. Thaks again for sharing. "Q"

Great job, Mecanix! A truly unique vehicle with a very weathered paintjob. I guess falling through a bridge in the jungle can do that

Nice progress on the Kazman, Matthew. It is getting that "lived in" look now.

I am still waiting for my order for Model Hobbies before I can continue with my Puma. It is more than a month since I placed the order and it is not shipped yet

Well, I'm calling this one complete. I will add all the stowage to it later. I have a lot of stuff to get done, and this is taking up a lot of my time. I gotta move on. Thanks, "Q"

Is there a gallery set up for our completed builds or are we just posting them here? Thanks, "Q"

Okay so I fired away a PM to MarkM and here's the official gallery:
http://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/24009

Everyone who has previously finished their builds, should also upload their pics here.

Oh and nice work everyone, I especially like the AIFV, funky little vehicle, that one!

Marek

Posted my two builds to the gallery. "Q"

Is the gallery for complete models only ? If so, how many pictures are we to upload ?

TIA
Olivier (AIFV still on the way !)

Here are some progress pictures. I got the base coat done and the decals applied on a glossy varnish. Then I seal them with a matt varnish layer with some drops of light earth paint to begin giving a shaded tone.
The decals were all but top notch. They were torn apart while trying to remove them from the paper. The various stencils are useless as for some reason the letters of some lines are reversely printed ! So you get one line readable while others need a mirror ! Even if I'm not Dutch speaking, the texts are obviously wrong and the French stencils are all missing.











Still some work to go before getting it complete.
Olivier

Very nice one Olivier !

Olivier, did you use the kit tracks or something else? I also have the same kit, which I will build as a Turkish Army AIFV in Nato colors. How was the kit in general? Too bad about the decals, but I will not use them anyway, I have to make my own.

Hi,
the tracks are the kit ones. They can be glued with thin cement. I realise the sagging effect that way too. The good point is they are of different lengths to adjust to the running gear. The bad point about all the running gear is you have to enlarge all the positioning holes of the wheels, sprockets and in a lesser way idlers. For some reason, AFV issued the M730 kit sprue for the wheels but the axles on the hull are just too large !
The kit is quite good even if some details can be improved or added like the rear lights wiring covers and the trim vane inner "bumpers". My hull was badly warped thus creating large gaps. I coped with this by extensive use of CA glue.

Olivier

Some progress on the BMD-1 from SKIF

Completed my Trumpeter LAV 25 last week, but I have only gotten around to taking some pictures today. The flash has washed out alot of the "dust" - the actual model has a bit more weathering than is apparent in the pictures.







This was a fun and, for me, relatively quick build.

Since there was time left on the campaign, I picked up my Zvezda BMP-1 that was sitting in the stash . Not much to it, and I've got most of major assembly done. I'm also using the Masterclub tracks on it - they click together and look good. Of course, using them meant having to replace the drive sprocket (which was not a problem, as they provide a resin replacement) and the idler sprocket (which required some surgery in order to get the track to fit). So far, here's how it looks:

Greetings everyone, some real nice builds happening on this campaign. I put my Luchs aside for a couple of weeks as the suspension was driving me batty and cross-eyed. Revell designers really must have created this kit for want to be masochists. At the least it might drive one to drink. Anyway, I pretty much finished the suspension today and applied a light wash to make it stand out better in the pictures.

Here's the overall completed suspension.



The rear components.



The front components.



Now I can get going with the easier and more fun part of the build.

Cheers,
Jan

Well, I finally finished mine. I thought it was never going to happen. Anyway, here is my M113A3. It is the Tamiya M113A2 base kit with partial Academy M113 interior, scratch built spall liners, eduard PE set, and some left over goodies from other builds. The covered ruck sacks were Tamiya Ruck sacks that I added gear to, then covered with saran wrap, then made molds out of them and eventually castings. The traffic cones were made out of an old glue tip glued to a square piece of plastic, and the flags were scratch built as well. I learned a lot building this thing. I learned that sometimes it is not worth the effort and aggrevation of using every single little PE piece on the sheet, and youre probably not going to see it anyway when its done! LOL Anyway, heres the pics guys, enjoy.

here is my warrior /> it was built oob ,it was a nice kit to build any comments welcome .Also here is my stryker m1126 which is in its final stages of building just adding bags andother items

Here's my Canadian LAV III from Real Models conversion set for the AFV Club Stryker. Superb kit really, great fun to build. Uploaded photos to the campaign gallery too.


Bob

.....And, I'd also like to submit my Canadian Staghound Mk 1 shown as a 12th Manitoba Dragoons vehicle in Belgium in the summer of 1944. This is the Bronco kit with some scratchbuilt modifications to the exhaust trunks. Photos in the campaign folder too...

cheers


Bob

My entry: Trumpeter's 1/35 LAV-25