Here it is.






Finished just in time.

I must say it turned out a lot better then I thought it would being my first Armor model sense I came back to the hobby. Of course I couldn’t have done it with out the help of you guys here on the big A.
Especially Pete (Epi) who took lots of reference pictures and answered my many questions on the Bradley as well as sending me 2 parts that were lost to the carpet. And Also Gino (HeavyArty) who made and sent me the decals for it. Thank you both for your help.

And as always feel free to post any question or comments good or bad.

Came out great Jacob. The only thing I will add is that you should drill out the barrel on the 25mm. All you need to do is take a sharp Xacto blade and center it on the barrel. Give it a few spins with light pressure and it will drill it out nicely. Good job.

Nice job mate!

An interior too? Lucky sod!

Gino I actually did drill it out a little bit.
You should be able to see it in the enlarged picture.

But due to a slip with the drill bit I got the starter hole a bit off cental so I hade to make the hole smaller then I had wanted to keep from thinning the one side out to much.

Murdo the interior was the most time consuming part of the kit.
Here’s a shot of the entire interior work (cover on the night sight wasn’t on at the time this was taken.)


It all comes with the kit and fits together pretty well.

Now I see it. You may want to do it deeper though. The actual muzzle brake is very thin and the slits on teh side are open to the interior. The glass on all the periscopes should be glass black as well. To give them the look of anti-laser coated lenses, go over the black with some clear red, then a couple coats of gloss. The above will make your great model even better.

Thanks Gino.
I won’t have time to do anything today and with it built for the campaign (plus the other projects I need to work on) I’ll leave it as is. But I will keep it in mind for future projects.
The reason I didn’t drill the barrel much deeper is I was afraid it would punch out the side of the muzzle brake (with the sides angling in)
I’ll try to do better next time. I also think I’ll try using slightly darker paint in the hole to make it stand out a little more.

It might not be until next year but I plan on building an Abrams some time and will do the periscopes as you suggest

Nice to see an "old school" Bradley. It looks good to me. Are there still any of this type in service, or have they all been upgraded?

Erik

M2A0 Bradley's began being replaced with the M2A2 during ODS, '90-'91. There are some still out here at the NTC as training vehicles, but none have been in front-line service since the early '90's.

God luck on you Abrams Jacob. I am waiting on the new Dragon M1A1 AIM to do my next Abrams.

Excellent job Red! Great for your first one after being away fro a while. I'm glad I could help you out.

Erik,
We still have them in our inventory here with the 36th, but since our Division is going through transformation from Heavy Armored to Light Infantry, we are getting rid of them. We where supposed to get A2, but that might change.