Just a few examples that remind me of what could be seen in the Balkans in the 90's :

An option for Trumpeter's forthcoming kit ?













H.P.

This BRDM looks like it's been put in jail !
I like the quadruple SPG mount on the last pic. It's certainly not easy to serve though.

Nice conversion ideas.. thanks for posting, Henri-Pierre

The side skirt on the BMP-2 should be easy to do

That BTR-70 or 80 in the last pic with those recoilless rifles on top looks interesting

That BRDM with the boxy looking cage around it reminds me of a similar cage around a few M-113s I saw here in Sinai

Lots of interesting conversion projects

Hisham

and even more







Whatever works !! :







H.P.

Hi Henri,

They still seem to be using something similar, I saw some footage from there on the news just the other day resembled a very closely spaced bar armour.

Paul

All from this thread over on Britmodeller.com

The pics I've posted mostly come from this tread on Tank-net.com. More interesting stuff there

H.P.

A little OT, if I may... here's a pic of a couple of Egyptian M113s with those boxy cages



Hisham

No problemo Hisham Thanks for the picture !

H.P.

Also a little off topic, but I found this BMP2 from Syria.

All the improvised add-on armor in Ukraine is starting to remind me of similar home brew armor from the various Yugoslav civil wars.




Erik

A-Team stuff by B. A. Baracus!


Michael

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

Thanks, Frenchy!

That BTR add-on armor looks the same compare to the WWII one.

Here's an interesting one.. a KAMAZ/BMD-2 gun truck

Could this be done with Trumpeter's URAL truck, or is that one too light for this?



From Zachary's FB page

Hisham

Those rockets on top of those BTR-80s are known as "Jokers",they are Ukraine's newest answer to anti-tank problems.

Very cool. Looks like they learned something from history. Vietnam era M54 5 ton guntruck w/M113 in bed.


The Ural truck should be fine for this. Pretty much any dual rear axle truck 5 tons or larger would be fine.

Another one :





H.P.

Do you think the BMD would be put on there with its wheels on or without them? I wonder how they would secure it on there?

Hisham

Hi Hisham

I've just came across some interesting pics from Ukraine that may help with your question (and your previous question as well ) :







...although I guess these trucks are just moving these BMD's around (no gun truck here...)

On a side note, the pictured BMD-2's have their suspension lowered (BMD's are fitted with a hydraulic system for altering the ground clearance and maintaining the track tension with pneumatic springs)

Two more views of the gun truck pictured in your post :



I'm not 100% sure about the side these guys are on, but I believe they are pro-Russian separatists ("Vostok Battalion")



...And a video to boot !

http://www.yaplakal.com/forum3/topic914446.html

BM-21 in disguise :



URAL4320 + BTR =



Full
size



video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocy-P1dfBNc#t=201

H.P.

Thanks for those last pics.. at least I know for sure that the Ural can carry it around

Hisham

Looks like something from "Mad Max"!

John