Last night was spent putting together the rear end toolboxes under the ballast body for the MAZ:

Small update:suspension completed,started interior and upper hull.

Some nice work.

Been a bit since my last update.

Upper hull assembly. Hatches, fittings, etc.


More upper hull details. Guard for the driver, grab handles, etc. I hate to skim over these like that but it's all pretty straightforward assembly.


More upper hull. You can see the PE hinges and exhaust. The exhaust went together really well. I really expected the PE to put up a fight but it fit together quite nice.


I went ahead and painted the lower hull. It's something I've been doing more of late for AFVs. Not show are the wheel rims. I painted them so I could then add the vinyl tires.


While that dried, I turned my attentions to plumbing the crane. Again, it went together much better than I expected. I think the lines are a bit thick.


Rear assembly.


Added the exhaust and PE grills.


I jumped ahead a bit with assembly and base paint. The Final assembled pictures were a bit too blurry. The headlight and mirror assemblies are provided with PE options. I went with the styrene versions. Also, the jerry cans are given with the option of using PE mounts. However, Trumpy wants you to sand off the molded on straps and mounts from the cans. They should have included three bare jerrycans. I went with the styrene, unalterred versions. The PE went in to the spares.
The tires were ho-hum but not that bad. I just popped them in place so if I decide to replace them I can.




And here we have weathered and decals added. I had some pictures of it just weathered but it just seemed redundant to post them and then pictures of the decals added. The markings are more labels for tie downs and lift points than anything else.
I drybrushed using Tamiya Field Gray, just to let let some of the under coat of green poke through. I did a very light wash. The wheel were drybrushed with a coat of Tamiya Dark Gray. Mirrors and lights were painted. The periscopes appear darker than they really are. They usually appear bluer so this is an improvement I guess.












And there she is...so I'm declaring her done. At some point I'll probably do something with her. I'll add stowage to her then and give her a proper dusting.
The kit really was a breeze to build. A huge improvement over the old Italeri kits. I'll probably add the Air Defense and Anti-tank versions later on.
I'll get a couple pics in to the gallery.

Good work Alex...

Nice Alex! Congrats!

Cheers!

Marco

Overall progress on the MAZ-537F/A as of 1/22/2015:


Generator complex and the spare tire mechanism nearly complete. Rear toolboxes completed and installed under the load bed and the forward probe well on its' way to completion.

Michael, your work is fantastic! No words.

Cheers!

Marco

Thank you Sir!

Past experience shows clearly that I enjoy creating models not currently available on the market. I love doing conversions and scratch building! Mike

Hi MIchael!

I do not have any skills to do scratch and love to see this kind of precision using just white plastic. Fantastic.

Cheers!

Marco

Very nice work all. I finally got some work done on the Puma. The suspension was quite involved. Moving on to the upper hull. The vision blocks are overly complicated. I just wonder how the company that made this kit could blow it so badly on the M103s.

Tom

More detail added to the vertical stabilizer:

Hi guys!

Update: The vehicle itself is done, minus head ligths and M151.

The kit is good but the plastic is soft.

I started the SMP. This part of SMP has more than 50 pieces.











Cheers guys!

Marco

Progress on several fronts on the MAZ 537 F/A 8x8:

Cable runs and Wiring.
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Support struts for the big forward pusher probe.

Update:





More details to be added









As you can see, a lot to be done before starting the turret.

Here is my finished campaign piece. A very easy build and easy to put together, turned okish. I lost one of the turret hatched and had to make a homemade hatch.

Hi guys!

Hey Gary, I loved the cammo scheme and the weathering. Realy good!

My M1132 now had an almost finished SMP (minus all of those rubber things )

As I finished my friend's M1151, I think I can back to the Stryker at full power.

Cheers!

Marco

Lower hull painted and weathered.

GREAT interior weathering! First rate!

Hi all, I joined this campaign right now I'll built Italian VBM Freccia, it is a test shot that will released by Royal Model.

Here a pic for those don't know Freccia:



Cheers
Dario

Some progress done on the three lil piglets er LAVs

Let's start to show the content of this kit.

It consist of about 290 parts in light grey resin that require a little cleanup and up to 200 etched brass parts.

Some parts were developed using 3d technology.

Dario

Moving on with my Puma,the suspension was very detailed but careful attention to the less then ideal Dragon instructions is needed. Hull together but it needs some seam work.



Its coming alon since its closed up I omitted the hull interior.

Tom

Great work on that interior Anthony !

Update,