Amazon has struck again! I needed to fill an order to meet the $35 free shipping limit and just like grocery store end caps at check out, they snagged me with some targeted marketing. I've been eying this kit for a while now and I finally took the bait. This will be my first ever armor/vehicle kit. What better way than to combine the two? I've always enjoyed the look of half tracks, they're just beastly vehicles. I've been tossing around the paint scheme on this one and I think I've figured out what I'm going to do. Since this kit was only $15, I'm going to mess around with weathering again and as vehicles got pretty dirty, it should be fun. I'm also going to try mud and dirt this time.
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| The box! How exciting! This kit has been produced since 1973. As you can see, there was no roof in the back and the troops had max headroom. |
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| The lower and upper hull. The vehicle itself is about 6 1/2 inches long. |
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| La di da. Parts. |
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| Wheels? |
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| More parts. |
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| Little guys! I may mess around with painting them, haven't quite decided that yet. I really like what I've seen in the world of dioramas and you usually don't have a diorama without characters. |
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| There was a pretty good sized square ejector pin mark in the bottom, I masked it off and smudged some putty in it. |
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| Voila, gone! |
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| I thought the shaft for the steering wheel was pretty stinking short. It was barely in the hole assigned to it and it was laying against the component on the left hand side. I just took a piece of plastic that came with the kit sanded it down pretty roughly and glued it in place. I'm not too concerned with how it will look because you probably won't be able to see it in the end. |
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| I think the big hole in the center is an ejection pin mark. The other side of the seat there are nine holes that are uniform and significantly smaller. The holes on this side will be filled and sanded. |
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| Those awful holes are all nicely filled in now. |
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| The near-completed interior! I was going to take another picture with the seats in so it would be complete but I forgot. Oh well. |
The interior detail in this kit is pretty sparse and it definitely won't win any prizes on that mark. A number of armor geeks have commented numerous times on forums that "this part is not right, that part is inaccurate" and so on. I don't generally worry about stuff like that, at least not right now. I want to get this kit together and mess around with painting and weathering. Stay tuned!
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