I had to convert the the Slat armour as i bought it for the Trumpeter kit by mistake. Not an easy task but I got there in the end..
Although the slat is a thin flat framed armour, the main frame is a more solid structure on the real deal, something Eduard didn't give their PE set.
So I've also corrected this by adding thin plastic strips to outside frame of the main structure (this also helps it stay in place better)
The figures are a mish-mash of Wee Friends and Preisar with all of them receiving some work or other to improve them.
The two soldiers in the rear have been readjusted from their original casting to show this pose and their weapon barrels have been replaced with thinner scratched ones..
I found a nice road cone in an old Verlinden Airbase set I had. (there were also concrete barriers and other useful in that set for future reference).
I reworked the bottom of the cone and placed it upside down as seen in a lot of reference photos I had.
The base in completely scratch built using plastic card for the path and road sections, built on a clean wooden frame. I used MDP 1/32 bricks to build the corner ruin structure. I used MIG pigments, liquid Resin and sand, mixed with water and brushed over the road section to produce the rough textures. The grass section is an Irish company ALL SCALE MODELS, great products and very easy to use.
The boy is a converted resin figure from REX Miniatures.
I just fabricated a football jersey using cuttings from some old decals.
The model is airbrushed using various home made mixes of Tamiya Acrylics including the weathering effects. Although not very clear in the photos I've used the Colour Modulation method for effect on the Stryker, using 5 separate shades of the same green colour.
The vignette represents the US ARMY's 2nd Infantry Division deployment to Mosul, Iraq during 2004.
I'm not a regular Braille builder but this was so much fun I think I have been converted..
