I will posting an article by Werner Kampfhofer about his experience building an LAV-AT vehicle. You can see it here:

LAV-AT Story

As ussual if you have any feedback or comments you can leave them here.

Thanks Werner!

Cheers,
Jim

Jim
The above link takes me to Eric's palm tree article.

It should be working now. You were too fast for me!

Jim

Just a question to satisfy my own curiosity, in the last few paragrahs it is stated that the LAV series are 'the most common used armored vehicles in our time'. I was under the impression that the T-55 family was. Has anyone got any figures or info saying one way or the other. Or is there a third player that I have missed?

I am buttuming that 'in our time' means currently in service.

Very nice article and model though, most butturedly a 'keeper'; some of it is relevent to our ASLAV's.

Cheers,
Linz

The review pretty much reflect my own experience with this kit. I can also add that it is close to impossible to get the whole 8 wheels on the same plane level.

I got so frustrated by this kit after all the efforts I invested that I threw the towel toward the end, after the first paint coat, and put the thing on a shelf.

A really good article! I got one of this kit (but the LAV-25 no AT version) and it's basically the same model. Good tips, I was just wondering, how does he gonna do to correct the imperfections that he pointed in the beggining of the article?
But, in all a good reference article.
Cheers

sorry guys..I was offline for a while d/t configuration problems and finally I srewed up my sign in data...

attn linz: could be that I was in a hurry when I translated the article, but it should read
mot used WHEELED armoured vehicle..

attn paulo: it u are really want to correct the kit, then some surgery and scratch is recommended. basically u have to cut the whole vehicle apart and recreate it from plastic sheet. Cookie Sewell did so with some ESCI LAV's. The unpainted kits were 80% white, because he used so much plasticsheet !

The reworked Italeri kits wouldn't look that white, but it is still a challenge to correct them.

regards, werner

Don't worryabout the offline bit, our LAN crashed a couple of days back, over the weekend too

Thanks for that clarification, much appreciated.

Cheers,
Linz