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AAVP-7A1 w/EAAK
ChiefGunner
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Posted: Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 12:40 PM UTC
Hi all
I am looking for information / photos about this AAVP-7A1 EAAK.
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/7318/10117801t4.jpg
Someone can help me?
Regards.
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Frenchy
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Posted: Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 07:29 PM UTC
Hi

Looks like it could be this one :



Another view :



In the second picture, you can notice the tow bar fixed to the front. It's used as a gate rammer :




Sorry I can't tell you more about this AAV, but the only visible markings (there's a reversed "1" on the turret) don't help much (some other markings have apparently been sprayed on)

HTH

Frenchy
ChiefGunner
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Posted: Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 12:15 AM UTC
Hi Frenchy
Many thanks, great pictures.
best regards.
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Posted: Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 06:02 AM UTC
Hey Chiefgunner. I'm building this same vehicle. Words of warning.Make sure you attach the armor plate, part R4 BEFORE you attach part D28 which I believe is some type of handle. You will not be able to attach D28 after attaching the armor plate. I found this out the hard way. Frenchy has done a wonderful job providing photos of the AAVP. Just about done with mine. Wingman out.
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Posted: Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 06:13 AM UTC
Wingman
Thanks for your warning.
Regards
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Posted: Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 06:32 AM UTC
Frenchy,

you are the bomb when it comes to finding photos on the net!

thank you,

Kylie
(ps, what do you have on the Achzarit?!)
slayer
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Posted: Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 07:00 AM UTC
Frenchy Yes the tow bar could be used to knock down walls and door. But it also there in case a vehicle goes down from mechincal or a IED hit and they have to pull the vehicle out of the kill zone. I think on the armor had the TAC marks cover up. and it looks like some spare eaak plates are jerry rig to the turret.
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Posted: Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 07:03 AM UTC
I for got On the front of the vehicle is not an antene. Its a cammie net pole. The bad guys were stinging up TOW wire on the roads. Plus it also use to move down power lines.
Frenchy
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Posted: Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 07:04 AM UTC

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ps, what do you have on the Achzarit?!


Not much I'm afraid...I'm not really into IDF stuff, but AFAIK, the one on Primeportal (and SVSM as well) is a prototype, not an operational APC...

Quoted Text

Frenchy Yes the tow bar could be used to knock down walls and door. But it also there in case a vehicle goes down from mechincal or a IED hit and they have to pull the vehicle out of the kill zone. I think on the armor had the TAC marks cover up. and it looks like some spare eaak plates are jerry rig to the turret.


Thanks for the informations Joe. According to late David Harper's book, the added armor plates were originally designed to cover the horizontal top hull surfaces.


Frenchy
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Posted: Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 07:11 AM UTC
Your welcome. I have another tip. Parts R16 need to be thinned out in order to fit over the door hinge bars. I cut off the tab that's on the bottom 'cause I could not find a corresponding hole for it. Joe helped me out in this area as far as what these things were for. Wingman out.
ChiefGunner
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Posted: Monday, January 30, 2012 - 10:09 AM UTC
Frenchy
I thnik, this pic was taken in Iraq, you know the year?
Regards
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Frenchy
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Posted: Monday, January 30, 2012 - 10:20 AM UTC

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this pic was taken in Iraq, you know the year?


According to the picture properties, it seems it has been taken in December 2005...

I've just found another view of the very same AAV (you can notice the Hesco mesh rack on the hull top) :



HTH

Frenchy
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Posted: Monday, January 30, 2012 - 10:37 AM UTC
Many thanks, Frenchy.

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Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 01:41 PM UTC
Is there an after market set of EAAK armour? I have the HB AAVP-7 with PE and Mounting Bosses on the way, but realized that it does not come with the add on armour. Anyone know of something like this? Cheers.
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Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 01:57 PM UTC
Hobby Fan has an EAAK set designed for the Tamiya kit. It should fit the Hobby Boss kit too. It goes for bout $60 though. It would be cheaper to get another HB AAVP7A1 w/EAAK.

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Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 03:46 PM UTC
I have always had a idea to start my own company when I know HobbyBoss was puting out the AAV. And EAAK would be my first venture. The EAAK on the models need some help. I noticed on the HobbyFan set the sloped plate sit on the hull. But as you seen in ref pictures there raised from the hull with EAAK bosses. That always got me. My dream was to develop the set out of Photoetch and resin bosses. Each peiece would be indivdual and the instruction were going to base on the actual TM for installing the armor.
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Posted: Friday, February 03, 2012 - 03:45 AM UTC
Thanks Gino, I was afraid that was the only option. I have seen that someone used the Minicraft kit's EAAK on another kit Tamiya or HB. I will see if I can find one of the two on ebay on the cheap, unless someone has a set of eaak that they would like to part with. Cheers,
Frenchy
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Posted: Friday, February 03, 2012 - 05:38 AM UTC

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I have seen that someone used the Minicraft kit's EAAK on another kit Tamiya or HB.


I guess the Minicraft/Mini Hobby parts would require "some" (re)work to be OK...

http://vodnik.net/pages/amtracs/aavp7a1wEAAK.htm

HTH

Frenchy
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Posted: Friday, February 03, 2012 - 03:36 PM UTC

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I have seen that someone used the Minicraft kit's EAAK on another kit Tamiya or HB.


Perhaps it's me...

It will require a lot of work if you want it accurate enough. The scratch built parts in my pics show the corrections to the armor. Be prepared for putting on a load of bolts, not just the main ones, but there's also multiple horizontal bolts on each armor plate-which I left off.

https://picasaweb.google.com/114041413216204780388/AAVP7A1EAAKArmorScratchBuild
http://armorama.com/forums/115986&ord=&page=1

ChiefGunner
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Posted: Friday, February 03, 2012 - 11:49 PM UTC
Frenchy

I found another picture, I think, is the same AAV.
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/4865/24257482658686ce9934b.jpg

Regards
Frenchy
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Posted: Saturday, February 04, 2012 - 06:35 AM UTC
Hi Chief

I have this picture too (a larger version ) but I'm not sure it's the AAV you're looking for : there's no inverted "1" on the turret, and no markings sprayed over on the EAAK. Furthermore, the EAAK in this last picture has apparently some green-painted parts...
Anyway here's the original caption :
"CAMP RIPPER, AL ASAD, Iraq -- Marines of Beowulf travel in convoy in an Amphibious Armored Vehicle for a cordon and knock mission, April 15. Beowulf is the regimental reserve force for Regimental Combat Team 2, responsible for a myriad of tasks from security and sustainment operations to setting up snap vehicle control points. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Stephen D'Alessio (RELEASED)"

HTH

Frenchy



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Posted: Saturday, February 04, 2012 - 04:14 PM UTC
LOL. Thats not armor on the turret that metal. Its a piece of the armor, but not actual armor. That piece goes between the driver and TC station. I cover the handle in that spot.
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