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USMC HMMWV in Fallujah ready.
Sturmi
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 - 09:22 PM UTC
Hi this is my first post here on Armorama. you may have seen this on ML but i like to show it here...
WIP pics you will find ML.


here you can see previous post (WIP).

http://www.network54.com/Forum/110741/message/1410529296/USMC+HMMWV+in+Fallujah+%28WIP%29

This was a goal.
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And here you see the result...
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Constructive comments are more than welcome =)

I did enjoy this build.

Regards
Kimmo

Maki
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 - 09:36 PM UTC
I have seen it in Moson and loved it. And I know how much you had to build from scratch.

Very nice,
Mario

PS It may sound odd, but the thing I was really impressed with were those rubber strips securing the vehicle tailgate. Amazing details.
young_sven
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 - 10:52 PM UTC
Very, very nice Kimmo. Great scratch-building, and I particularly like the painting and dusting of the interior. Very realistic!

Cheers,
Sven
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 - 11:34 PM UTC
Simple, unpretentious, without the bells and whistles - but it's definitelly one of the best of the best Humvees I've ever seen! Congratulations. Great, that You've tried to portray one actual vehicle. Some details are missing, but generally You've succeeded
Sturmi
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 - 11:35 PM UTC

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I have seen it in Moson and loved it. And I know how much you had to build from scratch.

Very nice,
Mario

PS It may sound odd, but the thing I was really impressed with were those rubber strips securing the vehicle tailgate. Amazing details.


Thank you Mario,
I made that detail by useing HO scale chain and top studio shrink tube =)



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Very, very nice Kimmo. Great scratch-building, and I particularly like the painting and dusting of the interior. Very realistic!

Cheers,
Sven


Thank you Sven, this was really fun Project =)

I am glad that you both like this =)

Kimmo
Sturmi
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 - 11:39 PM UTC

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Simple, unpretentious, without the bells and whistles - but it's definitelly one of the best of the best Humvees I've ever seen! Congratulations. Great, that You've tried to portray one actual vehicle. Some details are missing, but generally You've succeeded


Hi and thank you,

the time was against me. I want this to be ready for Moson so i had to let something go. So some details are not correct.

Kimmo
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Posted: Saturday, April 25, 2015 - 12:12 AM UTC
Awesome work, reminds me of countless hours on MSR Michigan & Mobile. Great job!
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Posted: Saturday, April 25, 2015 - 12:24 AM UTC
Very nice.
TankSGT
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Posted: Saturday, April 25, 2015 - 12:38 AM UTC
I'd say you scored a goal. You captured the look of the real vehicle quite nicely. I was impressed with the seats, the worn cloth of military seats looked great.

Tom
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Posted: Saturday, April 25, 2015 - 10:16 AM UTC

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Awesome work, reminds me of countless hours on MSR Michigan & Mobile. Great job!


Hi Daniel,

Thank you, and if i can make you feel that you are once again in training. I think i made my goal.


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Very nice.


Thank you Gary


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I'd say you scored a goal. You captured the look of the real vehicle quite nicely. I was impressed with the seats, the worn cloth of military seats looked great.

Tom


Hi Tom,

Thank you for your words, i really appreciate opinions from person who is sitting on these vehicles.

Regards
Kimmo
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Posted: Saturday, April 25, 2015 - 09:10 PM UTC
Nice humvee, I like the weathering.

On your reference photo, is it an armor panel who was added on the driver door ?

Is it a vehicle used by a special unit ?

Sturmi
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Posted: Sunday, April 26, 2015 - 09:33 AM UTC

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On your reference photo, is it an armor panel who was added on the driver door ?

Is it a vehicle used by a special unit ?


Hi Alex,

The panel in door is for extra armour, I could be wrong but this the best i know. Maybe our US friends can confirm this.
And to my knowledge this cehicle was used recular USMC.

Regards
Kimmo
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Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 05:13 AM UTC
nice job! great work
AmTrac1833
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Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 06:32 AM UTC
The door armor looks like it could be a Kevlar "blanket," they came in all sorts of sizes. On a couple of Humvees I had we had the Kevlar blankets inside the door, made it a little more comfortable when you banged your knee against the blanket instead of the steel. If I remember correctly all our Humvees had the large blanket that fit in and covered the whole of the bed area.
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