I just finished this baby for my club show's 'special award' category (Vietnam) unfortunately I won't now be able to attend.....grrrrrrrrrrr






The kit is the AFV Club M88 with some details scratchbuilt (lightguards, forward MG mount, jerrycan racks) and is finished as a vehicle of 1/10th Cav featured in the squadron book on vietnam vehicles. The 'load' is made from plastic card and bits from the spares box and is there just to keep the cables taut.

Markings are handmade from microscale and archer decal sheets and the model is painted with modelmaster acrylics.

I'm sure this one would place. The weathering is just right. When you say the decals are "hand made", do you mean you printed them or they came from an am sheet? I've been wanting to build one for a few years, now. Unfortunately, it is more dificult to locate than a snowball in hell.

http://www.brookhursthobbies.com/Product-Detail.cfm?P=SKUAFV35011&N=10

HTH

Frenchy

The pennant was cut from red and white decal sheets, the '81' came from a sheet of 1/48 aircraft number decals and the bumper codes etc made from archer rub down numbers/letters put onto clear decal film and then added to the model. Only the stars were 'ready made'.

great build.very nice work.

Thanx for the comments. It's a pretty old kit now and suffers from numerous sink holes and poor fit in some places but it still builds into a brute which captures the size of the original I think. I've now started on an AFV CLub Valentine and its looks like 1/48 scale next to this thing...

Here's mine, made an engine sling to keep my cables taught

hi guys,they are both great builds,one day i will start my m88

This for James, what is the bumper # you used and are they correct. Also what did you used on the smoke grenade despensors on the front of your 88.

Well, not really sure about the bumper numbers, doubt if they are good. I built this thing back in 97 or 98. It has a FULL interior that is mostly scratch built. I purchased a resin interior set from, I think, MR Models but I have to tell you it was junk, just big blobs of resin. I used those as templates to scratch build, and added a lot that was missing, tool racks, tool boxes, radio racks and radios, all the wiring, cabling, weapons and racks, you name it, it’s in there. The covers on the smoke grenade launchers is just masking tape. Wrapped around then one piece added to the front. I used crazy glue to fill the seams. I do that on a lot of my models, the tape has texture that looks like fabric.