Ukrainian armored vehicle based on M1097A2 Humvee variant. Model was built with Academy's M1025. Wheels - Blast Model. NSVT machine gun and searchlight from Tamiya's T-72. Doors, armored body, turret, rear bumper and some minor parts scratchbuilded.


Night photos:













Day photos:

Really good looking, Kuba!!
Any place on the web to see actual vehicle pics?
Do you have any pics of the building progress?
Interesting project to give it a try...

I like it even though bad photos!

Thanks


Many photos of originals I took from these pages:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?76918-an-Ukrainian-humvee
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?96008-Ukrainian-Armed-Forces
http://tank.lviv.ua/pr-ma-m1097a2.php


And here is a building progress summary:

Usually I start model building from undercarriage. I did so this time too, although it was somewhat easier task - model came to me with assembled chassis. I added a winch from Academy's M998 IED, I scratchbuilded rear bumper with spare wheel mount. Wheels are resin Aggressive Pattern from Blast Model:



Then arose a turret - 3 circles cut out of polystyrene, the middle cut properly. Hatch is modified element from Italeri's BTR-70 (on the first photo below at the left there is a hatch before changes). NSVT from Tamiya's T-72:



A searchlight comes also from Tamiya's T-72, modified a little bit and with scratchbuilded mount:



I treated the interior of a partly exempted. I have no idea how it looks in the original, so I limited myself to mount seats from Bronco's M1114 and so-so imitation of radio rack. Doors and front window are completely scratchbuilded:



One major challenge was the armored body. Firstly, based on the dimensions of the model and photos of real vehicles, I estimated dimensions of the projections from the side, front, back and top. Then in AutoCAD I created a 3D model. And finally from this model I took the dimensions of armor plates and created a geometric grid:



I printed the grid on adhesive paper and glued on a sheet of polystyrene (I choose thickness of 0.75 mm to have a better block strength). I glued it, and between plates I added a putty. On the second photo armor after cutting, glueing and sandindg:



Model ready to paint:



Design of decals and registration plates:



Painting stage. From left - base colour (Humbrol 116), camouflage (Humbrols 33 and 113), sidolux and decals:



My inspiration was also this model:
http://www.mimory.com/models/ua_hmmwv.html

Great job!
I feel the need for building one!! LOL

Looks great....Well done Kuba....

Great build of a very unique variant Kuba!! Your scratchbuilding ability is incredible!

yes, very nice build. Thanks for sharing the pictures of the WIP and 1/1 scale prototypes images

Thanks for all opinions I'm very glad that You like my model.