_GOTOBOTTOM
Armor/AFV
For discussions on tanks, artillery, jeeps, etc.
Hosted by Darren Baker, Mario Matijasic
News
Balaton: Lada Niva
Maki
Staff MemberSenior Editor
ARMORAMA
Visit this Community
Croatia Hrvatska
Joined: February 13, 2002
KitMaker: 5,579 posts
Armorama: 2,988 posts
Posted: Monday, October 09, 2017 - 03:09 PM UTC


Balaton Modell released their long awaited kit in 1/35 scale featuring an off-road 4x4 produced in Russia: Lada Niva.

Read the Full News Story

If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
gaborka
Visit this Community
Borsod-Abauj-Zemblen, Hungary
Joined: October 09, 2005
KitMaker: 626 posts
Armorama: 250 posts
Posted: Monday, October 09, 2017 - 03:11 PM UTC
wooohooo I take one. the guys making this deserve my support
RobinNilsson
Staff MemberTOS Moderator
KITMAKER NETWORK
Visit this Community
Stockholm, Sweden
Joined: November 29, 2006
KitMaker: 6,693 posts
Armorama: 5,562 posts
Posted: Monday, October 09, 2017 - 04:00 PM UTC
"The mother of all SUV's" ? I want one ... / Robin
SgtRam
Staff MemberContributing Writer
AEROSCALE
#197
Visit this Community
Ontario, Canada
Joined: March 06, 2011
KitMaker: 3,971 posts
Armorama: 2,859 posts
Posted: Monday, October 09, 2017 - 04:43 PM UTC
I remember my father having one of these here in Canada that we used up at the cottage. It was a little beast, and I definitely need to have this one.

TheoBraat
Visit this Community
Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Joined: April 21, 2017
KitMaker: 113 posts
Armorama: 113 posts
Posted: Monday, October 09, 2017 - 06:07 PM UTC
You even get an exhaust to go with it, even though Lada's don't have any
Removed by original poster on 10/10/17 - 14:04:32 (GMT).
Frenchy
Visit this Community
Rhone, France
Joined: December 02, 2002
KitMaker: 12,719 posts
Armorama: 12,507 posts
Posted: Monday, October 09, 2017 - 07:08 PM UTC
According to the caption, this Russian military vehicle called 'Intelligence Patrol automobile', or RDA-1 is based on a Niva chassis :



H.P.
guni-kid
Visit this Community
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Joined: July 21, 2007
KitMaker: 521 posts
Armorama: 514 posts
Posted: Monday, October 09, 2017 - 07:08 PM UTC
Oh yeah! I guess the only LADA that sold and still sells very successfully worldwide. None of the current SUVs out there can compete with this guy when it gets to real off road
Frenchy
Visit this Community
Rhone, France
Joined: December 02, 2002
KitMaker: 12,719 posts
Armorama: 12,507 posts
Posted: Monday, October 09, 2017 - 07:36 PM UTC
Niva-based technical in Transnistria :



Low-budget add-on armor in Ukraine :



H.P.
Cyclone
Visit this Community
Novosibirsk, Russia
Joined: October 08, 2014
KitMaker: 132 posts
Armorama: 127 posts
Posted: Monday, October 09, 2017 - 09:05 PM UTC
Legendary off-road
ReluctantRenegade
Visit this Community
Wien, Austria
Joined: March 09, 2016
KitMaker: 2,408 posts
Armorama: 2,300 posts
Posted: Monday, October 09, 2017 - 11:36 PM UTC
Probably the only Soviet/Russian-made (non-military) car that was/is really appreciated in the Western world too and pretty much the only one that is still around in Western Europe these days. It's a tough, reliable, great off-roader. I'm happy to see in it 1/35.

acebatau
Visit this Community
Colorado, United States
Joined: February 10, 2008
KitMaker: 730 posts
Armorama: 616 posts
Posted: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 - 01:44 AM UTC
NIVA, car I use to have
Vicious
Visit this Community
Queensland, Australia
Joined: September 04, 2015
KitMaker: 1,517 posts
Armorama: 1,109 posts
Posted: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 - 04:23 AM UTC
Lada Niva .... how many memories my grandfather had one and it was the car he used in the mountains
 _GOTOTOP