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TAKOM BV 206S arrived-opened box

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 08:50 PM UTC

Thank you guys for the good words and reference photo links! Most helpful.

The track bands on the TAKOM kit are softer and more flexible than, say Tamiya, but not as flexible as Dragon M1A2 for example. I just held the track up both ways and it will flex under its own weight as shown...

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 08:53 PM UTC

Here is a closer look at the TAKOM kit running gear as mentioned...

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 09:07 PM UTC

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The kit looks nice.. Hope they will release more versions so i can build Swedish version and German...
Do you have more photos of the instructions over the interior ? Thanks for the photos of the kit!

You are most welcome! Thanks for the comments. I thought Hobby Search normally put out kit instructions, but what I see here does not yet?
https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10528076
Here are some quick cell phone shots to give a feel for the complexity of the TAKOM kit steps. Hope this helps?

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 09:08 PM UTC

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 09:14 PM UTC

Is this a UK Brit version here? Please share comments on the smoke grenade launcher item on top here? What is that and what vendor supplies? Also there is a tarp over the rear cab?

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 10:00 PM UTC

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Is this a UK Brit version here? Please share comments on the smoke grenade launcher item on top here? What is that and what vendor supplies? Also there is a tarp over the rear cab?

I think it's a italian version if you look on the registration number in the front as it say the same as the decals in the kit, looks like it's the galix smoke grenade launcher on it like on the italian centauro kit.. I'm just guess.. But it looks like that.. Looks really cool.. Please a aftermarket update set ...royal model come on, do it

Thank you very much for the instructions photos, cant wait to get mine from hobby easy

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 10:47 PM UTC

EI=Esercito Italiano

Hope flexible tracks of the kit stick well.

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 11:14 PM UTC

Yes. This photo seems close to the kit configuration. Good view of the track.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Bandvagn_Bv206S_Netherlands_Marine_Corps.jpg

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 11:28 PM UTC

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Yes. This photo seems close to the kit configuration. Good view of the track.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Bandvagn_Bv206S_Netherlands_Marine_Corps.jpg

That is a bigger and newer version of the Hägglunds BAE on the photo, it is a BvS 10.. It's much bigger, you see it have 1 wheel more..

so it's not the same as bv 206s

Lets hope some company will release this version too

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 11:43 PM UTC

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Is this a UK Brit version here? Please share comments on the smoke grenade launcher item on top here? What is that and what vendor supplies? Also there is a tarp over the rear cab?

The rear cab with with a tarp can be a mortar version, i'm not sure but it can..

Anyone that have a photo of the French BV206s with the turret armed with 12.7 mm machine gun lthat is used on VBL that they used in Kosovo ?

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Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 - 11:50 PM UTC

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That is a bigger and newer version of the Hägglunds BAE on the photo, it is a BvS 10.. It's much bigger, you see it have 1 wheel more.. so it's not the same as bv 206s

Lets hope some company will release this version too

I see that now yes. I only read the photo title, but you are correct.

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Posted: Saturday, May 26, 2018 - 01:22 AM UTC

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Anyone that have a photo of the French BV206s with the turret armed with 12.7 mm machine gun lthat is used on VBL that they used in Kosovo ?

Full size

They belong(ed) to the 7e Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins.

It seems that a limited edition of the Takom kit that would includes French markings and the 12.7mm MG turret has been announced....Or maybe it's just a hoax

(the pictured kit has the same item number...)

https://militaire.kit3000.com/ask_alert.php?id_art=37015

H.P.

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Posted: Saturday, May 26, 2018 - 02:12 AM UTC

Same kit number on the box. It's a joke.

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Posted: Saturday, May 26, 2018 - 02:50 AM UTC

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Same kit number on the box. It's a joke.

....And the VHM designation (Véhicule Haute Mobilité) applies to the BV210 MkII, not the BV206S :

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Posted: Saturday, May 26, 2018 - 10:31 AM UTC

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The kit looks nice.. Hope they will release more versions so i can build Swedish version and German...
Do you have more photos of the instructions over the interior ? Thanks for the photos of the kit!

Does anyone know if it's the same rubber tracks on this like it's on the early bv206 ? As i have the resin kit of that model and the tracks are impossible to do in photo etched so i was hoping to use these ones if they are not to different...