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M1A2 OIF with engine Start build
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Posted: Friday, October 20, 2006 - 07:17 PM UTC

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Posted: Friday, October 20, 2006 - 07:23 PM UTC
Looks good
Is that the CMK engine set?


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Posted: Friday, October 20, 2006 - 07:28 PM UTC

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Looks good
Is that the CMK engine set?


Mike

Yes, I have Tree pcs samle and i must for CMK write reviews.
All set look is good. I prepare one on New DML M1A1 AIM, I think that for new dml is very good.
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Posted: Friday, October 20, 2006 - 08:26 PM UTC
I agree. It is looking great so far. Let us know how the CMK engine set works out.
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Posted: Friday, October 20, 2006 - 08:37 PM UTC
Looks very nice so far. What are you using for the anti-slip coating? And what are the yellow rings on the barrel (I asume tape)?
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Posted: Friday, October 20, 2006 - 08:47 PM UTC

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Looks very nice so far. What are you using for the anti-slip coating? And what are the yellow rings on the barrel (I asume tape)?


Anti-sliping is Gunze Mr. Surfacer 500.
Yelow rings is tamiya tape but I change plastic gun barrel in metal barrel.
Miloslav
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Posted: Friday, October 20, 2006 - 09:22 PM UTC
nice build , cant wait to see the rest of it ,, engine bay looks good
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Posted: Friday, October 20, 2006 - 09:40 PM UTC
Looking good so far Miloslav. Will be interesting to follow this build.

Erik
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Posted: Friday, October 20, 2006 - 10:31 PM UTC

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Looking good so far Miloslav. Will be interesting to follow this build.

Erik

Hi Erik, please I see on your M1A2 and interested me additional rear rack, this is Scratch, resin or plastic.
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Miloslav
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Posted: Friday, October 20, 2006 - 10:51 PM UTC

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I see on your M1A2 and interested me additional rear rack, this is Scratch, resin or plastic.


It is a home made resin one I bought from a member on this site, Garyj36 . It is not excellent, but with a little work it turned out ok. The BRE is the USMC style one, and I know Eduard makes one, and you get one on the J-sprue from Academys M1A1 OIF. To my understanding this BRE is now being standard for both USMC and US Army. I can't confirm this though, but Gino or one of the other modern guys probably know if this is true or false. I do not think the M1A2s had this type of BRE during the initial invasion.

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Posted: Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 12:19 AM UTC
Here pics with engine.
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Posted: Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 02:17 AM UTC

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To my understanding this BRE is now being standard for both USMC and US Army. I can't confirm this though, but Gino or one of the other modern guys probably know if this is true or false. I do not think the M1A2s had this type of BRE during the initial invasion.


It is a folding BRE. It was first used by the USMC and now the Army is buying them as well. All "new" M1A1 AIMs are now coming with them from Depot rebuild now too. 4ID had them on their M1A2 SEPs when they entered Iraq, which was after the initial invasion by a few weeks (mid April '03). There were no M1A2s in 3ID during the initial invasion either. USMC M1A1HCs had them on during the invasion though.

I did a review on Gary's USMC BRE too. They are pretty nice and look the part. Not a bad item at all.
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