SPA Modeler

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...

Very cool!

Nice!

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

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.

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

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

Did we? I must have blinked and missed that!

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.

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...