mostly finished, needs some weathering, but I'm going to put that off till after some practice.

The AFV Club makes wonderful kits but sometimes the detail gets too much. To take a break from it I finished off the much quicker Trumpeter Centauro.

The Centeuro is in NATO Green while the Stryker is painted in Japanese Army Green

Nice work, gang! It looks like the pressure is on now.

I continued with the suspension and got the front axle components together and mounted. A real major pain was the last three pieces of the steering linkage that represents the part from on the hull just under the driver to each of the linkages of the front two axles. The only way I could see to do this and end up with it looking correct was to attach them using tweezers and tube gel cement. For each of the pieces I believe that it took three or four dry runs before I found a comfortable way to get the pieces into position.





After once again checking with a steel ruler the all the axle ends were in alignment I secured them in position with solvent glue. Following the instructions I mated the two hull pieces. While I couldn't get a great picture of the interior you can make out parts of it through the front windshield area. I also started adding the hull detail pieces.







Next up was "building" the six wheels. Each is three pieces plus an attachment ring that if done properly should allow the wheels to rotate (making them easier to paint once attached). There is a certain amount of "play" in the mounted wheels which I anticipated would make having them all rest on the ground easier to manage. Once painted I'll secure them in their permanent position with solvent glue.





A great thing about this kit is that all the tools and external storage are separate pieces. Everything is really nicely and finely detailed but it was a slow process removing some parts from the sprue as the attachment points were quite large and the plastic is quite brittle. This process took the better part of an entire afternoon.







Note that the windshield is attached and is covered with masking tape in preparation for painting. Next up should be the start of painting.

Cheers,
Jan

Finished


By sudzonic at 2011-07-25

By sudzonic at 2011-07-25

By sudzonic at 2011-07-25

Hobbyboss 1/35 ZLC-92 IFV.

That looks very nice eMan. Love the paint/weathering.

At this point everything except the warning light on the roof is attached. I have sprayed the entire vehicle with Tamiya NATO green and started painting the tires with a preliminary coat of a dark grey.







I started the camo yesterday and will be doing the regular NATO three colour. Unfortunately this is proving to be a real exercise in frustration. All the little bits and pieces that make the detail so nice are impossible to mask and in some cases work around. The body is far busier than the Luchs and the pieces are all so much closer together. I'll try to see if I can maybe try it freehand with the airbrush later. Up to this point I have been trying to use a build-up of dilute colours by brush to simulate the sprayed patterns.





Cheers,
Jan

Nice work Jan I have done a few of those, its a very busy little kit and builds up very nicely.

Thanks for the comment Scott! I might have figured that you might have built one of these. Busy is almost an understatement as it looks like Revell went overboard on the detail. Silly me though I was in for a "quick" build.

Shortly after my last pictures I wanted to tone down the colours a bit. Thanks to some advice from someone in another forum I loaded up a slightly lightened NATO green in the airbrush and have sprayed around the black and brown areas. It needs a touch up here and there but I think that it's almost ready for decals.

Cheers,
Jan

Its certainly not a kit for a quick build , with a bit of work you can make the front wheels look like they are steering. I did it with one of mine and it looks very good, I did one in the 3 tone German and another converted into a British army NBC detection vehicle.

Some really nice looking builds showing up here on the home stretch
@Jan, you brush camo is looking fine in the photos looking forward to seeing it completed

Slight change of plan. Looking at the amount of time I have left and the amount of work left to do on the Staghound, I figured I'm not going to finish that one in time, especially if I'm going to leave it open to show off the interior.

Instead, I dug out an oldie: Hasegawa's Armored Car Humber Mk. II.

Box with parts still sealed before commencing the build:





And some initial work. The turret is mostly done, the body is coming together. I have to say that even though the detail on this kit isn't what some of the newer kits offer, there wasn't a lot of parts clean up and the parts are fitting together quite nicely:



Keeping my fingers crossed that I'll finish this one!!

Wow! A lot of nice looking vehicles finished in the home stretch. Do not forget to post a couple pictures in the gallery.

Tony

Thanks for the comments and encouragement guys. Mark V., was looking foreword to you completing the Staghound but good luck with the Humber. I've seen but never build that kit so it's new to me.

Okay, so I did a tiny bit of touch-ups and cosmetic enhancements (light initial weathering) and then applied Future to the areas to receive decals. Today I started on the decals and have all of them except for the absolutely miniscule tire pressure markings on. It still needs the warning light for the roof but that will be the last touch before final finishing. It is so small and delicate that I am sure that I would have broken it off several times by now if it was in place. As it is, I had to use a set of those "Helping Hands" to assist in decal placement. With all the little pieces poking out here and there you can't really hold it comfortably. Here's where it stands as of this writing.







I'll get the rest of the decals on and then coat them with more Future mixed with Tamiya X-21 Flat Base. Hope to begin the painting of the tools and storage after the decals are all taken care of.

Cheers,
Jan

Hi Jan,
That's a nice looking Fuchs! Can't wait to see it finished. As far as the Staghound goes, I may bite the bullet and turn that one into a build log. I'd like to create an interior for it, especially after seeing randyd's sickly detailed one here. Granted, his is 1/35, but I think quite a bit can be done in 1/72, especially when considering there is a pretty decent interior in the kit already, especially for the engine bay.

The Humber is progressing. Will post some updates shortly.

Mark

Ready for paint, and the addition of a couple of antennas...

Slow but steady progress with the Fuchs. Most of all the little details have been painted and where necessary, touch=ups made to the surrounding area. During this stage everything is done with a 10/0 brush and the use of diluted "glazes" of paint. By glazes I mean that the paint is thinned so as to not be totally opaque but not as thin as a wash. It generally takes two and occasionally three passes to get them opaque enough. This technique was shown/taught to me by my SWMBO who is the artist in residence. This worked with both Tamiya and Model Master acrylics. I also started some preliminary weathering washes on the wheels and lower hull and suspension. I don't want to overdue this as most pictures show these vehicles as pretty well kept.







I still need to finish the tarps and the headlights and then the weathering can continue. Certain areas are still a bit glossy from the Future so they need to be sprayed with more matt medium.

Cheers,
Jan

Sorry Gents,
Time and circumstances have conspired against me. first i run out of supplies, then i'm caught in a lock-out at work during a labour dispute, when i returned to work I find that the one thing i need to complete my LAV is sold out and on back order

Congrats to all those who finished, they all look amazing!

So here's pics of where i'm at. Just need to finish putting on the footmans loops than it's off to get painted.

Greetings fellow campaigners. Talk about taking things down to the wire. I touched up a few spots and sprayed the flat coat. As I mentioned, I wanted to keep the weathering very subtle. I looked at dozens of pictures of the real vehicle and most did not have the roof mounted strobe light or antennas attached. For the sake of this build I decided to use those as my reference and do the same. Here are a few of the final shots and a couple are also in the campaign gallery.







And yes, the tie-downs over the tarps are a light tan colour on the real vehicle. As this was also done for a Build Review, I may take more pictures later and post them in the build log HERE.

Good luck to those that like me that were rushing to complete their builds.

Cheers,
Jan

Like Jan, I got my Scoutcar done just in the nick of time. Quick run down on the last two days of building: I spraypainted a desert sand basecoat, applied a medium brown wash to darken things up a bit, and brush painted the black camo patches as well as the details such as the lights. Tires are basecoated in black and drybrushed with charcoal. I liked how they came out, so I did a similar highlight on the black camo (not sure if it's really visible in the pictures. After spaying some glosscote, I applied the decals; they were a pain to apply, as some were almost too big for the area where they were supposed to go.

The commander fig was painted, washed, and highlighted as well. The casting isn't the greatest, but he didn't come out too bad.

Antennas are hairs from an old paint brush. I may replace the taller one of the too as it's not as straight as I'd like it to be.

All in all, this has been a great campaign. Thanks for hosting it; there were some really great builds!!

Finally, some pictures (also already uploaded in the campaign gallery):

Great work everyone!
Finally done,she needs few figures,but...another time!
Nothing special ,just a week fast build,an SDKFZ 233 "Stummel",Roden kit in 1/72 scale,DAK.





Cheers!

Are ribbons coming ?

I have had to go out of town unexpectedly. I hope to assign ribbons this weekend. Sorry for the delay.

Great work everyone!

Tony