Hi all,
sometimes ago I started a Trumpeter LAV 25 to depict it as in the early stage of OIF.
Thanks to the help of white4doc, I'm close to the end of this project. See the thred here:
http://armorama.com/forums/266216
The special feature of this vehicle is the additional Gypsy Racks of both sides of the turret and on the rear left side. A camo net was draped all around the hull. This was the last obstacle I need to go through. As I didn't find a Kamizukuri net at a reasonable price I decided to go with the AFV Club offering. My bad! It is over fragile and as soon as you start removing it from the support paper you tear it apart.
In the end, I managed to drape the bits around my LAV in an acceptable way.
As Trumpeter has omitted the turret MG, I used a Live Resin reference. The Platt mount comes from a spare Trumpeter set (M242 and M240).









I still need to add the antennas and probably more dust.
Olivier

Oliver,

It looks great! Like I said before, you've done the guys in Alpha 4th LAR proud with this, brings back memories!! The damage to the net you encountered in the draping process worked in your favor, in actuality those nets were pretty well trashed by the time all was said and done so I wouldn't be too worried about that at all. So far as dust goes - yes please, they were pretty well covered with a heavy coating, and the gear near the muffler was stained black by the vehicle exhaust. One other thing to keep in mind is that we often had fuel spills running down the rear of the vehicle from overflows when we refueled at the end of a mission or at night.

Wow. That looks amazing! Great job.

Phantastic work Olivier!
You paid a lot of attention to all the details and it came out really great.

And yes ... more dust.

Cheers
Walter

Thanks guys. I didn't have much time this week-end to work on the weathering but I should weather it a bit more during the coming week.
John, I got your points about the exhaust stains and the fuel spills.

Olivier

Thank you all for the kind comments.
Antennas are done, they still miss the ID strips. I think I'll add some pigments to enhance the dusty look.

John, from your Armorama callsign I guess you were a crew member of white four. So I'll add four strips to honor your service and thank you for your great help with this project.









Olivier

Oliver,

On behalf of the crew of White 4 - SSGT Guevarra, Sgt. Tull, Cpl. Uribe, LCpl. Bergey, LCpl. Khent, and LCpl. Samuels as well as myself, thank you for that honor! That was our "home" for seven months. I'm happy to have been able to help you with your project, it reminded me that it was 15 years ago that I was getting ready to deploy with those guys for the 'Spring Break 2003' tour, man I've gotten old...

Thank you John,
I'm glad that you appreciate this model.
Here are more pictures with some dust added to the hull top.

And now I call it done.

















I hope White 4 crew will be happy with it
Olivier

Oliver,

You've captured my "home away from home" for Spring Break '03! I've passed on a link to this to those crewmen I'm still in contact regularly with, and I've been asked to pass on thanks and congrats on your work from everyone. So you have the approval and appreciation of White 4's crew, Doc, and Scouts. Well done, Sir! Very well done. I'm happy to have been able to help you with this project.

great build well done ,the paint and the cammo nets are very well done great work .

Very nicely done!!! Really liked the addition of the padlocks on the vehicle.

Thanks a lot guys!
concerning the padlocks, Trumpeter deserves the appreciation not me

Olivier

Looks great, I just started my LAV last week and was going to use the prime portal photos of this vehicle as a reference. I think you certainly did it justice.

Thank you Josiah.
Enjoy your build and share some pictures!

Olivier

Very, very nice build and finishing.
I am also working on this kit. The spare tire is puzzling me a little as to how make the inner hub/rim. Any tips or how to advise to offer?

Thanks for the comments.
The spare wheel was made by assembling the both parts. When done I used a kind of Dremel tool to remove the excess of plastic and get a smooth inner surface.
HTH

Olivier

Thank you, that gives me a direction.