8 Wheeled Duck Hunter, LAV_AD

[Stikpusher]

Over at So Cal AMPS we are doing an online GB of Air Defense vehicles, so this is my choice for an entry. It's Italeri's 1/35 kit, ad I'll be replacing the kit wheels with a set of resin ones from TAC Scale Dynamics.


Yesterday at AZ AMPS I started construction and completed Step 1 and got most of the way thru Step 2...


Stay tuned for more in a few days...

[Medicman71]

Very cool!

[BlackSheep214]

Nice!

[Stuart]

Cool subject Carlos, that's completely new to me.

[Stikpusher]

Thanks guys... They cut the production run short and ended up only making something like 17 of these, and phased them out after only a few years in service. I bet with the drone threat now massively growing that somebody is kicking themselves in the rump over that decision. We need air defense assets of this type.

[Stuart]

Are you accusing the ''powers that be'' of some short-sighted defence planning decisions Carlos, because they've NEVER done that before

[Stikpusher]

Not at all… because once the Iron Curtain went down, we had “Peace in our time”…

[Stuart]

Did we? I must have blinked and missed that!

[Stikpusher]

Earlier in this week I finished up the suspension on this beast, and glued the rear plate & upper hull into place. I did leave off the swimming props and rudders until later in the build.

[Stikpusher]

Well I guess I forgot to update this build after our last build session at AMPS a couple of weeks before... and I have been working at this a bit when I can get some bench time, which I finally have had over the past week...



I have most of the turret sub assemblies built and based paint done onto the turret interior...



and I've added most of the small detail items onto the hull front & rear... I still have the tail light brush guards to add on here...



and I added the pioneer tools from my spares which Italeri neglected to include in this kit... I still need to scratch up some brackets for the tools



a few weeks back I picked up some Mig Ammo non slip paste, so I started adding that to the top surfaces. I still need to do another coat to get the proper texture



and lastly a test fit of all items built so far. I won't be using these tires, except one as a spare stowed on the hull side. I have some nice resin AM tires to use for the rest, but they didn't include a spare...

thats all for now...