At last! I've finished my M1025 HMMV done in ODS scheme. Please check "my galley". I posted it there and not yet in my website. The positioning of the figures are temporary for I will put it in a dio. The face of the fig maybe not yet that detailed. I'm still working on it. Tips are welcome.

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Through the help of Armorama, I can say that I improve even a little bit on modeling. The first pic is the Academy M966 which was done last Oct. The second one is the recent, Tamiya 1025. Thanks for the help guys!

Very nice job Shonen_Red. Looks like you left a fingerprint on the hood, but that should be easy enough to swipe off once the paint fully cures.

You may not be done painting the smaller details, but here's some that I caught from your slide show: The front directional blinkers are amber (orange) like on your M966 in the first picture. The front side reflectors side indicators are amber as well. Rear reflectors are red.

Another small detail are the little bumps to the right and left of the windshield center post (just inside each wiper arm). These are omitted from hard top HMMWVs. They are rubber bumpers used on soft top HMMWVs to keep the windwhield from banging against the hood when it is in the down postion. Minute point that makes me think that they may have a soft top HMMWV in the works...sorry, just thinking out loud. Don't worry about them though, your kit looks good. I like the weathering you did to the tires.

Overall I think you did a very nice job. Any easier/better than the Academy kit?

Thanks! The blinkers does not show out very well. I painted it with chrome silver then add clear orange/clear red. The way that it looks more of a glass thing is because a clear part was placed on top of it. I painted that kit entirely with a brush except the matt finish.

As for the kit, I find this better. The wheels are soft, very little gaps on seam lines, the figures and decals are really for the ODS version. Well, I like about the Academy one would be having 3 figures (driver,gunner,passenger) and many items to boot (M-16, Jerry cans, handgun strap, binoculars etc.) The Academy one is not really intended for the ODS version.

BTW, thanks Sabot for your M966 walkthrough. It help me made this kit look better.

Great Hummers Shonen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like the 2 figures in the M1025.
I really dont like to crituque other guys work, but tke this only as a sugestion, maybe you didnt know how to do this.
On you M966, here is the way the TOW is cabled. I worked on the TOW for 12 + years and at the beginning of my military career The Ground Mount TOW was all I wirked on.
There are 3 cables that are attached to the TOW. The cable from the TU(Traversing Unit) to the MGS(Missile Guidence Set), the power cable from the NIght Sight to the Vehicle Power Condtioner to the battery. and the cable from the TU to the top of the night sight ( I forgot what this was called , beeen a while). The vehicle power conditioner is a small box that has a switch to turn it on. It takes the 12 volts from the battery and changes it to run the night sight. The small box usually is mounted right next to the passengers seat. The TU to MGS cable runs under the TU through the turret and back out to the MGS.
Hope this helps a little bit.

you could try a little weathering! dust it everywhere!

gee thanks for that clear pic...er...hehehe try this...

Thanks KGlack. I'm just getting use to this new camera and I am bad with print shop, photo shop or what ever the hell you call it.

Nice job. Have a few comments. Like the way you painted the belt of 40mm grenades. Very realistic. However, I saw a few minor errors in the paint job, might just be the lighting though. The photos of the front and back sides, there is two different markers. One is the reflector while the other is a small bulb with the repective color, Red to the rear and orange to the rear.

Other then that I feel you did good job showing a M1025 with the 40mm Mark 19 Mod 3, grenade machinegun.

Good job in the Humwee.I liked the painting and I am not an expert to make critics on this vehicle but I think you should change the painting of the figures. The white dots on the U.S 6 color BDU is not that big,please see Mario (Maki) great feature about painting chocolate chips .best regards