Here's a Tamiya GAZ-67B that I'm redoing. To be honest, I never really finished it. I decided to add some rivets, hood hold downs, etc. If your interested, there is some build information here on my website.

Looking good so far...continue the good work! Are the Tires done with pastels or enamel wash?

Howdy PC,

Your GAZ is looking good. I especially enjoy the nice paint chipping appearance. Are you done with the wheel weathering?

Tread.

BTW, this thing is just crying out for some figs!

Wheels haven't really been started yet. I have some additional weathering to do yet as well, inlcuding a wash to key areas, a filter, dusting, and of course, the tires.

Plan to build the figures with the kit as well and place it on a small base. I was thinking of doing a dark mud, but not so sure I really want to do that.

Howdy PC,

What's your setting?

Tread.

(my apologies, I always think in terms of dio ).

Not sure. It might be less of a diorama and more of just a vehicle with some figures on a base. Something similar to Steve Zaloga's stuff, in which he just adds a figure or two.

Looks like superb work Mark. Only hope mine turns out half as good. I picked up the Armo postwar conversion set for mine. Comes with a new radiator, grill, radios, bunch of PE fittings by Part. No engine though. Can't wait to see yours as part of a dio.

Howdy pc,

I didn't mean to imply you were building a dio (although from your short description it sounds like you are, in fact , building a 'vignette'). What I meant to say is, that no matter what I'm building, whether it's a single vehicle, grouping, or whatever, I always think of the build-up in terms of a dio. Reason being is, it helps me enormously in regards to my knowing precisely what colour it will be painted, what kind of weathering it will wear, what the figs will be armed with, surrounding vegetation, road surface, camo inclusion, etc, etc.
It's a very good practice to get into whether you're building a dio, a vignette, or a single fig. :-)

Tread.

In my Christmas massive shop attack i found this one and bought it


so if you have any info on building it (pictures , reference ) could be helpful.
by the way you have done nice work till this stage

I couldn't find much for reference. The only how to I could find was this one, which is in japanese:

http://matte.where-i.net/GAZ67B/GAZ67BMake.htm

Run, run away from this kit! I picked one up when Squadron had them for $2.99 one month. Very poor rendition of the GAZ-67. The AER logo is boldly molded onto the rear portion of the floor and must be removed. My kit did not include any clear parts and locating features on parts is non-existant. Still, I guess one could build it into a decent kt, but it pales in comparison to the older Tamiya kit.

LOL, lol......good one Rob!

Tread.

I've generally learned to run from AER period.

As for the lack of glass, you could always just do what I did and fold the window down and throw a tarp over it.

I wish all vendors would put pictures of teh actual built up model on the boxes, at least on the sides. I can't remember how many kits I probably wouldn't have bought if they had, which is of course, the reason they don't. I mean, looking at the AER box top, I would love a GAZ with articulating suspension, which we know it wont do.

The glass for the vehicle windshield would be no problem since it would just be a flat, rectangular piece of styrene to fit into the frame. The headlights were missing, and this kit is not worth the cost of MV lenses.

Looks real nice Mark! Love the paint chipping! Fot its age, that Tamiya kit is pretty good! I'm not into counting the bolts etc, but I do recall having a great time with that kit a number of years ago.

Enjoy finishing this one off! Hey, I'd love to see it completed too!