Trumpeter Models continues to release some great looking modern Russian armored fighting vehicles and the GAZ-39371 is another great example. Here Kevin Brant takes a look inside the box and provide his opinion.

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

There's a walk around here: http://www.primeportal.net/trucks/yuri_pasholok/gaz_39371-221_vodnik/

Barry

Thanks, will definitely use that link when I build it.

The interior of the kit is pretty awful with lots of stuff missing and/or incorrectly shaped (such as the "Commanders" chair: completely absent!). Hopefully someone will do a resin update set or some more interior pics will become available on net.

Can you please provide a constructive list of what needs to be done to improve the interior. I did not have reference images when I did the review. And from what I saw and deemed what was going to be visible through the armored glass, it looked adequate.

Hi! No offense! It's mentioned more times that the kit has full interior, but it has not. Everything is mising behind the driver.
The size of the searchlights is more than funny. For me this kit is pretty disappointing... Not 90% at all.

The inaccuracies are a shame, it does look like a great kit and should build good. And for most modelers that should be enough, it does look like a GAZ-39371 to me.

Hi!
It may look like a Vodnik (especially in a dark room), but if someone reads this "This includes a full driver compartment and passenger compartment" in the review he may be disappointed when opening the box of the kit, as this is false info.
The kit has this (nothing):


instead of this (not the girl ):


There may be (will be) more mistakes, but I did not check my ref. pictures yet.

I will stand by my review, as it is correct with the information I had at the time. As a model, it is an excellent kit. Unfortunately not all models are 100% accurate.

OK, it's your review, your responsibility. I'm out

As a person that has started working on this I can say that as a all-closed model it has pretty much everything. The interior is quite sparse on the real one, and the commander seat won't be visible if you don't left the driver's door open.
Anyway the instruction has many more flaws and if you follow it blindly you will end up with an "primeportal walkaround" vehicle instead of a Chechen war Vodnik - meaning that the decals for the camouflaged version are useless.
I also have some doubts about the size of the model, but again there are some discrepancies with the acrual measurments of the real one (at least those available on the Internet).
As a model - it can obtain 90% - it is easy to build, no flash, no damaged parts. But it suffers from research omissions.

I'm not sure how much more accurate the Navigator kit is but it does include much that is missing from the Trumpeter kit: http://www.warwheels.net/REVIEWcrawfordVODNIKb.html

I like that vehicle. Pitty the Trumpeter has so many inaccuracies. Will wait to see if they are corrected, or somebody else releases a more accuret version. Thank you.