nsmekanik
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Here is what I am working on at the moment
Actually a pretty nice kit if you are into the more modern stuff, absolutely no interior so I just painted the innards gloss black and moved forward from there
The fit is pretty decent, but the rear decking does sit a little proud as it was glued into place, I should've looked around at pics a bit earlier or I would've put a bit more effort into removing the seems as apparently there aren't any, oh well. It should look alright under a coat of paint and I have filled them in with some Mr. surfacer so they don't show as much
One other thing I did do was to add a shim as the lower chassis is a touch short of the rear bulkhead just to help keep things tightly glued in place as the lower chassis did need a bit of upward pressure to line up. The instructions would have build the the upper and lower halves as separate assemblies to be glued together near the end, but after looking things over I think it is better to glue the body together first and add all the bits later starting with the running gear.
Although the wheels are designed to be able to turn, I don't normally worry about that to much so I was just going to glue them all together and put them on later, but according to the instructions they are handed, and in that the parts are designed in such a way that they will only go together as 2 separate sets. For a while there I couldn't really see any difference between them to justify that, but really looking very closely I finally found the difference is in the lugs, they are directional, which is hardly discernible.
The wheels themselves are a 3 piece affair which go together very nicely and do look the part.
Since this is my first(and probably not last) Nato vehicle, I don't have any colours for the scheme. Now I've looked around a bit and there really isn't much on the subject as far as model paints go, so what would be recommended as a fairly decent match. I have a mixture of various manufacturers in my collection so if I have something near enough I might use them.
This is the vehicle I'm building
From what I gather this one was deployed in Afghanistan? the instructions give the option of using the KFOR or ISAF decals so I'm a bit confused, If there is any more information about this vehicle I'd greatly appreciate it.
Actually a pretty nice kit if you are into the more modern stuff, absolutely no interior so I just painted the innards gloss black and moved forward from there
The fit is pretty decent, but the rear decking does sit a little proud as it was glued into place, I should've looked around at pics a bit earlier or I would've put a bit more effort into removing the seems as apparently there aren't any, oh well. It should look alright under a coat of paint and I have filled them in with some Mr. surfacer so they don't show as much
One other thing I did do was to add a shim as the lower chassis is a touch short of the rear bulkhead just to help keep things tightly glued in place as the lower chassis did need a bit of upward pressure to line up. The instructions would have build the the upper and lower halves as separate assemblies to be glued together near the end, but after looking things over I think it is better to glue the body together first and add all the bits later starting with the running gear.
Although the wheels are designed to be able to turn, I don't normally worry about that to much so I was just going to glue them all together and put them on later, but according to the instructions they are handed, and in that the parts are designed in such a way that they will only go together as 2 separate sets. For a while there I couldn't really see any difference between them to justify that, but really looking very closely I finally found the difference is in the lugs, they are directional, which is hardly discernible.
The wheels themselves are a 3 piece affair which go together very nicely and do look the part.
Since this is my first(and probably not last) Nato vehicle, I don't have any colours for the scheme. Now I've looked around a bit and there really isn't much on the subject as far as model paints go, so what would be recommended as a fairly decent match. I have a mixture of various manufacturers in my collection so if I have something near enough I might use them.
This is the vehicle I'm building
From what I gather this one was deployed in Afghanistan? the instructions give the option of using the KFOR or ISAF decals so I'm a bit confused, If there is any more information about this vehicle I'd greatly appreciate it.
