I guess this is the battle of the oversized model threads with NSA’s MaxxPro. After 2 weeks of traveling around the northeast in the opposite direction of Kansas, I finally received my kit and am ready to get started.
1:16 Trumpeter Oshkosh M-ATV Model Kit
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Please post detailed notes so I can learn from all your mistakes!! The scale really does look good with Joes/Joy Toy figures.
Since the model was molded in grey, I needed a mass assembly way of making it khaki. My solution drew a lot of looks from the wife and was about 90% effective. Unfortunately it was windy making it where I could only spray in two directions and causing me to miss some angles on a few sprues. Good enough for a start. I also messed up and bought RustOleum, not Krylon so it’s not going to become one with the plastic. We’ll see if this bites me in the ass during weathering. I can already tell how different it is as it dries.
RustOleum, not Krylon?????
What's the difference? I don't have the cans in front of me is Krylon not good for plastics?
What's the difference? I don't have the cans in front of me is Krylon not good for plastics?
Krylon is far, far superior to RustOleum for plastics. It was a rash decision when I bought the paint a few weeks ago, not planned, so I just grabbed the ultra flat camo can not noticing it wasn’t Krylon Fusion until the morning I was painting. I can easily scratch this paint off the sprue with my thumbnail, so will have to be extremely picky for the final clear coat. Has to be a laquer.
Figures fit much like a regular human would I think.
Definitely need those step sides to get in. Would be kind of a pain to mount/dismount in a hurry.
Definitely need those step sides to get in. Would be kind of a pain to mount/dismount in a hurry.
Here is the best look you can get without having access to one. Apparently you can just buy one from the factory warehouse for $100k?
Trickle trickle. Painted a bunch of parts black today like the inside of doors and inside of fenders, then glued the interior together. No way any figures are fitting in the backseat, but the window is so small you’d never see them anyways. I’m really glad I bought the kit and have something so unique in my very small collection.
I need to copy that paint job on mine.. They still have that funky 21C paint job.
Finally freed it from Garrison’s hairy palms after 6 or 7 years of captivity.
Did I get it from you originally? I know someone on the interwebs was generous enough to donate it to my ultimately failed RC conversion project. I only know of 1 other 21C Bradley with full suspension and individually linked treads.
DO NOT GLUE THE WHEELS TOGETHER IN STEP ONE if you ever want them to roll. You’ll figure out what to glue in step 3.
Garrison had possession of it for the past several years in it’s current state. I just brought it home last week.
Yeah. The stock one.. I assume it was some Gulf War 1 scheme maybe? It's ugly as sin.
I don’t think that was ever an actual pattern. Probably just the paints they had lying around the Chinese factory.
Announcement article I stumbled across.
www.cnn.com
Pentagon hopes new M-ATV is 'life-saver' - CNN.com
It looks likes a cross between a Humvee and a monster truck, and Pentagon officials hope it can save the lives of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
www.cnn.com
I’m guessing the rest of the bulk is armor. We’ve lost thousands to IEDs and ambushes with lesser armored equipment.
Looking good!
I am kind of surprised there is no access to the cab from the back and vice versa. What is that little area really for? Just storage?
I am kind of surprised there is no access to the cab from the back and vice versa. What is that little area really for? Just storage?