SeanM

Go for any version of the Meng Cougar lovely vehicle and a great kit

Great news alright. Looking forward to them all. However Hobbyboss have a history of years between announcements and actual releases

The Bronco M1114s and Academy M1151 represent more up to date Humvees and have loads of detail in them. Good kits too....

Currently reading the Osprey book on the Green Beret ODA teams in Afghanistan 2001-2002. Very interesting and some good reference material.

Wow, you’re fairly flying through that. Looks great

I like your plan and all nice bits you have lined up. The Meng pickups are nice but a bit basic. You'll probably want some sort of radio mounted on the dash board and an antenne on the roof. And lots of storage in the bed.... Looking forward to watching this come together

Well folks, it's long over due for me to start this thread. The plan is for a dio with a Pibber providing cover for a Light SEAL Support Craft LSSC dropping off a Seal Team as part of a Vietnam GB on IPMS Ireland forum. This will actually be my first diorama Basic construction and painting of the PBR, Patrol Boat Riverine, is complete but still a lot of detail to be added. The LSSC finally arrived last weekend and it's now ready for primer. PBR has 4 crew in the top left of the picture, LSSC 2 crew top middle and the other figures are SEALs from 2 Dragon sets and some that came with the LSSC. I won't use them all though as even with the two boats they couldn't all be carried. Lots of weapons and storage from the different sets and a Black Dog Vietnam storage set. IPMS Ireland Vietnam GB IPMS Ireland Vietnam GB IPMS Ireland Vietnam GB IPMS Ireland Vietnam GB IPMS Ireland Vietnam GB Still loads to do but at least progress is being made. A good start is half the battle!

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I recently got the Meng version. Awesome looking vehicle

RT Dioramas do a set of 10 for €10 https://www.rt-diorama.de/english/to-the-shop/modern-combat-new/ MAiM also do a set for the same price https://www.modernarmies-in-miniatures.de/barrier-container-set-1-1-35_maim-brmodern-armies-in-miniatures-front46_maim35012.html Both based in Germany and post is not too bad. I've used MAiM before and like their stuff. Not used RT but will try them soon

I got both sets of Meng/AK paints for Modern Russian Armour and I have to say they do spray very nicely. Russian AAA All 4 vehicles have now got their base colour. I'm using the schemes in the Meng Shilka booklet for 3 of them. It may not be 100% accurate but they look good and that's good enough for me. Russian AAA Russian AAA Russian AAA The Tunguska will get an Artic scheme with black and grey stripes Russian AAA I hope to get a good bit of the camo painting done over this weekend

Nice work. I found those Trumpy decals very brittle and hard to work with....

SA-8 AND SA-13 are possible future additions but have you ever seen anything as ugly as that SA-4? 😂 SA-2 Is another I'd like to add sometime. But first to finish these 4. I have a great track record of starting projects, not so good at finishing..... EDIT: Have the SA-9 also in the collection

Don't know why I decided on such madness but I'm building 4 modern Russian anti-aircraft systems in parallel. The kits are: Meng Shilka - beautiful kit with workable tracks but clean-up of the spruce attachments on each link has to be exact for them to connect. Trumpeter SAM-6 - simple kit, nice missiles. Link&length tracks though. Not a fan of them from when I build one years ago. Will replace these. Panda Tunguska - horrible kit. POOR fit of parts and really overdone with tiny bits. Non workable individual link tracks. Might replace these too Panda TOR - such an improvement over the Tunguska. Very detailed radar that went together very well. Also has individual workable tracks Soviet AAA Soviet AAA Currently on the process of priming them all. Each will get a different colour scheme just undecided on which ones yet....

Finally finished the Stryker ADV. Apologies for not keeping the build log up to date but with the PB woes and finding Flikr troublesome I've not been posting recently. I shall rectify that going forward. Anyway, here we are, all done at last. AFV Club M1128 hull with Ledgends A DATE conversion mounted on it. Painted with Mr Hobby Olive Drab and weathered with various washes, filters and pigments from AK, Mig and Tamiya Air Defence Stryker Air Defence Stryker Air Defence Stryker Air Defence Stryker Air Defence Stryker Thanks for watching folks.

Very, very nice, but......Starbuck would never have left the Big G 😁

Hopefulĺy this album will help you http://s213.photobucket.com/user/35th-scale/library/Models/Panda M-ATV?sort=3&page=1 And there is a build thread in the armour section but all the links are broken thanks to our friends in PB And if you message me an email address I can send you a wiring guide I got off a guy from the states who knows these things very well. If you want to add the cables that is. I didn't do it right as my fingers and eyesight just wasn't up to that level of detail

As far as I can remember the dimensions were way off. Panda has no radio gear inside but a more detailed exterior than the Kinetic version. ProArd did a lovely radio set but hard to get now. BLAST Models in France also do an MRAP radio set which is quite nice and will fill the interior for you.

Hi Dave, the Kinetic M-ATV was withdrawn because of the errors in the kit. It was Kinetic's first 1/35 vehicle kit and fair play they put their hands up and admitted the mistakes and didn't make any more. They have been promising an updated version for some years now. The Panda kit is very nice. Suspension is challenging but do-able and the parts need lots of clean-up and dry-fitting, bu t any moderately experienced modeller should be able to manage it. The SF M-ATVs as far as I know normally have the RWS, the extra bull-bar at the front and the rear area has build in storage bins on the sides as in MagMans pictures above. These would need to be sratch built

My wife and I went to the auction mart at Tralee the other week and one of the first exhibits we stopped at was the breeding bulls. We went up to the first pen and there was a sign attached that said, 'THIS BULL MATED 50 TIMES LAST YEAR' My wife playfully nudged me in the ribs ......smiled and said, 'He mated 50 times last year, that's almost once a week.' We walked to the second pen which had a sign attached that said, ''THIS BULL MATED 150 TIMES LAST YEAR' My wife gave me a healthy jab and said, 'WOW~~That's more than twice a week ! ...........You could learn a lot from him.' We walked to the third pen and it had a sign attached that said, in capital letters, 'THIS BULL MATED 365 TIMES LAST YEAR 'My wife was so excited that her elbow nearly broke my ribs, and said, 'That's once a day ..You could REALLY learn something from this one.' I looked at her and said, 'Go over and ask him if every time was with the same old cow.' My condition has been upgraded from critical to stable and I should eventually make a full recovery.

Hi Ted, have you started your build yet? I also recently got one of these kits. Undecided whether I'll do as an Aussie version or a what-if Irish one. It is mased on an Irish design licenced to Thales of Australia and was a contender for the Irish army but we went for the RG-32 instead. Looking around the inter-wed there are not a lot of build logs for this kit.....

Looks great! Will be large and so will the price but I won't let that stop me. Will also need a lot of extras from Life Resin etc to bring up to SEAL boat configuration which will look awesome with all them guns. Can't wait!

You've still managed to do a very nice job on it. It is a cute little 4x4

Looks very good in IDF scheme and a believable bit of whifery. Nice build too 😀

Sorry, blame Photobuckets greed! It's going to take a while to transfer everything to a new hosting site