After almost 5 months of little or no activity (raising/training a puppy) on the AML 90, I've got a little bit more done. Wheel/tires are on (and all touch the ground equally), some brass and photo etch applied in the way of license plates, mud flaps, lifting point pins and tools. The exhaust is finished with coiled steel spring wrapping on the upper muffler with aluminum tubing finishing the exhaust just below the upper part of the rear fenders. Will work later with some PE latches for the four rear storage bins as well as figuring out how to more accurately detail the headlights. Adding the PE PSP track comes later.











And the obligatory display of the box art (or lack thereof)...

Nice work John.
I got a decal set last week at Perth show for my build. And a nice 4x4 to put them on.

Pete

Nice job, John! That's a very "special" looking little vehicle, indeed Looking forward to seeing it painted.

Cheers,
Cristian

Cool looking AML with all the little details. Good job!

Cheers
Walter

Hi all, just enlisted with a dutch fennek from Trumpeter.

It will be a vehicle used by dutch KCT in mali in 2014.



The kit and contents, and I will use UN markings from the Trumpeter Puma 4x4.

I'm doing the Fennek in the What-if V campaign....what a beautiful kit! You'll enjoy it....lots of detail, great fit of parts

Nice entry alex!

I´m also currently working on the trumpeter kit. It´s a very nice kit, but some important parts are missing to build a Fennek deployed to Minusma Mission in Mali.

I´m scratchbuilding the slat protection for the windshield (all Fenneks in Mali had that mounted), the ammunition racks on both sides and also the two anti-tank-missile-tubes on the rear deck.

Hope to see some pictures of your progress soon ... have fun.

Cheers,
Walter

I hope to build the same machine in1/72 scale. I think I have all the AM parts needed to finish it off.

Thank you Walter.

I found a nice walkaround of a fennek with slat armor.

http://www.twenot-forums.nl/viewtopic.php?p=194509

hi alex, thx for the walkaround link. excellent images there for the afghanistan deployed Fenneks.

cheers
Walter

Some progress.



I thought of turning front wheels for more dynamism. No difficulty at this stage.

Hi am building AFV Clubs Scimitar

@alex ... good progress on your fennek.

@TangoOskarMike ... nice to see a scimitar in the campaign. This one is still on my to-do-list. Looking forward to see some progress.

Have fun
Walter

Looking forward to seeing more of that Fennek and Scimitar builds!

Cheers,
Cristian

My Scimitar to date:

Wow that's a quick build even for such a small vehicle!

Olivier

Wife is recovering from an operation so I had two days of sitting around the house looking after her, otherwise sitting at the modelling desk. The kit did go together a breeze.

Started a twin build of a BTR-70 and BTR-80. The BTR-80 will be in UN livery while the 70 is for the 8x8 campaign.

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Nice work John.
I got a decal set last week at Perth show for my build. And a nice 4x4 to put them on.

Pete [quote]

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Nice job, John! That's a very "special" looking little vehicle, indeed Looking forward to seeing it painted.

Cheers,
Cristian
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Cool looking AML with all the little details. Good job!

Cheers
Walter
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Thank you all for the comments. The AML proved to be a bigger beast to deal with that I thought. With 15 year old resin kits I kinda knew what I was getting myself into. It was not a simple build.

The PE latches are now on all four storage bins along the rear fenders, and the two PSP plates were joined together with proper looking nut/bolt/shims. Now I have to figure out how to tie them down...maybe adding a jerry can and a ammo box attached to the plates. Decisions, decisions!

Oh yea...the action in this video is still on my bucket list!

http://www.funnyplace.org/stream/carlton-bright-idea-13313/

Progress is being made on the BTR-70
Relatively quick build OOB, but the coats of white paint gave me some serious trouble.

Hi,
Looks awesome, Shawn.

I start my kit, late BRDM-2 for UN (white)



These pics are good ideas to me. Thanks to unknown photographers for this.



Sincelely,
K.

Nice choice, Mr. K!

Thanks, Cristian
Your AUF-1 howitzer is also a nice choice. I try to simulate your weathering.
Cheers,
K.

Thank you. I had to identify interior colors. Trumpeter instructions are totally wrong on this point.

Here is my build



And as it goes together rather easily




Last night got some white on it, cover for back is Khaki



I will be building a dio for this (of course) and it will be Cyprus UN peacekeeping Force.

Pete