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Black Dog: US AFV Additions
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Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 09:38 AM UTC


Some new stowage sets and a Jeep conversion are now available from Black Dog for some American AFV’s.

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Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 04:24 PM UTC
ASLAV is Australian, not American...
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Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 - 08:48 AM UTC
something looks funky about those FAV wheels
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Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 - 08:04 PM UTC

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something looks funky about those FAV wheels


Agree



H.P.
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Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 - 08:32 PM UTC
It looks as if the diameter of the rim is way too large turning the tyre into a low-profile tyre instead of what looks to be a full profile one. The oversized rim also converts the rim from a solid disk with holes into a sort of spoked design ... Being forced to swap out the resin wheels for other resin wheels sort of defeats the purpose with the whole thing ...
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Posted: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 - 08:37 PM UTC
I e-mailed a question about the tyres/wheels to Black Dog / Petr Polanka
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Posted: Thursday, October 02, 2014 - 12:00 AM UTC
Funny I was happy about the release but had nagging thoughts about those wheels not being quite right.

Don't they look similar to the wheels/tyres in the Kirin conversion, which were too square in profile as well? And the unrealistic/simplified tire tread too...


Here's an in-progress picture of my (since then finished) build of the Kirin conversion :



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Christophe
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