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M2A3 Bradley BUSK III
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 - 09:16 AM UTC
Jason Yu shares some photos of his M2A3 Bradley BUSK III from Meng.



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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 - 10:06 AM UTC
Congratulation for very authentic replication of a Bradley !
Top notch NATO-camo ... love it !
A really nice piece of work you done there !
Thankx for sharing

Cheers
Christopher
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 - 10:24 AM UTC
Is the Commander's armor different on the M3A3?

Regards,

Eric
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 - 04:20 PM UTC
amazing work the m2a3 Bradley. thank you for sharing this with us. I enjoyed looking at this.
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 - 04:26 PM UTC
Very nice work. I like the camouflage. Thank you for sharing and congratulations.
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 - 05:12 PM UTC
Excellent Bradley Jason - well done.

I've seen other builds you've done in Scale Military Modeller International magazine and I've been very impressed. Keep it up!
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 - 05:27 PM UTC
Looks pretty good. One question though, why would one side have all the lower side skirts turned up, while the other side does not? It shows off the suspension well, but is not realistic at all. Also, did you use the side armor plates from another kit, or did you sand down and rework the kit side armor with the ERA attachment bars?

Additionally, it isn't really an M2A3 BUSK III Bradley. The elements that make it the BUSK III are the addition of the ERA blocks and all the other pieces, which are/were level III of the BUSK set. The gunner's surround and screens on the optics have become standard items on the latest Brads, so it is just a late-model M2A3 IFV.
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 - 06:58 PM UTC
It looks fantastic, excellent job.
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Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 - 10:05 PM UTC
Nice work with an AMAZING kit.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 02:43 AM UTC
Love it! Nice clean build, subtle weathering. Perfect NATO paint job
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Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 02:43 AM UTC
this meng 1/35 m2a3 ifv is excellent.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 12:39 PM UTC

Quoted Text

Looks pretty good. One question though, why would one side have all the lower side skirts turned up, while the other side does not? It shows off the suspension well, but is not realistic at all. Also, did you use the side armor plates from another kit, or did you sand down and rework the kit side armor with the ERA attachment bars?

Additionally, it isn't really an M2A3 BUSK III Bradley. The elements that make it the BUSK III are the addition of the ERA blocks and all the other pieces, which are/were level III of the BUSK set. The gunner's surround and screens on the optics have become standard items on the latest Brads, so it is just a late-model M2A3 IFV.


Hi Gino
Thank you very much for your reply.
At first, I didn't know the side skirts can be attached upside-down, then i saw this picture,and I decided to make my Brad a little bit different from others.
I used the kit side armor and removed all the ERA attachment bars.
PS:I know its not a BUSK...I dont know how...but this title is not the one of my orignal email...maybe the site-editor changed it



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Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 05:51 PM UTC

Quoted Text

At first, I didn't know the side skirts can be attached upside-down, then I saw this picture, and I decided to make my Brad a little bit different from others.


Yup, I bet the other side has the skirts up too. Great job on removing the ERA bars. You can't even tell you did major surgery on the side skirts. They came out looking great.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 03:41 AM UTC
Looks great! I love the side skirts the way you have them. just because this might not be combat feasible doesn't mean that it can't be done. Love it and after seeing so many Bradlys in Desert colors it's nice seeing the good ole nato colors.
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