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Iraq YW-531 APC
Miniam
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Skaraborgs, Sweden
Joined: June 29, 2009
KitMaker: 66 posts
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Posted: Sunday, August 17, 2014 - 01:09 AM UTC
Hi
This in Bronco's YW-531C in Iraqi service.
I beileve this vehicle is quite unknown to others but me too. It's originated as Chinese APC in the late 1960:s and have
been exportet to a number of countries since then.

Does someone know how frequent they were in Iraq or arab service? I haven't seen many photos of them on the web
but I think I've seen some ones in a nice sand/green cammo.

Built out of the box with an antenna added. A quite easy build, if somewhat fiddly with many small fragile parts.
The most problemtatic were the link-by-link tracks, while beautiful, theese snap-together, are very fragile
and need som real care during the build. Painted with Tamiya and Gunze, weathered with oil paints.
Do you think it needs more chipping/weathering?










See you later
/Tomas
bison126
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Correze, France
Joined: June 10, 2004
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Posted: Sunday, August 17, 2014 - 05:16 AM UTC
Nice paint job. The weathering is subtle and enough to me. Not all the Iraki vehicles were pieces of crap.

These APC were often seen during the first Gulf War.

Olivier
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United States
Joined: July 12, 2013
KitMaker: 172 posts
Armorama: 157 posts
Posted: Sunday, August 17, 2014 - 06:08 AM UTC

Nice model and thanks for posting. I have been putting together a stash of vehicles for my desert storm shelf. Needed more Iraq vehicles. Never knew about this one.
bat-213
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Canada
Joined: December 30, 2011
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Posted: Sunday, August 17, 2014 - 11:44 AM UTC
very nice build. well done.
WilliamDeCicco
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New York, United States
Joined: May 03, 2010
KitMaker: 392 posts
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Posted: Sunday, August 17, 2014 - 12:02 PM UTC
Very interesting build.
Karl187
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Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Joined: October 04, 2006
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Posted: Sunday, August 17, 2014 - 09:51 PM UTC
Great job on this- particularly nice paintwork and subtle weathering.
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