Vietnam
Comments
2 3 September 2015, 16:16
Dave FlittonWow, I didn't realize how much this kit needed a face lift, I better watch this build!!
17 September 2015, 04:56
Steven Van DyckDave, some of these conversions are only necessary if you want to open the hood, but the kit starts to show it's age.
17 September 2015, 05:08
Steven Van DyckThe Commando, though mostly closed off, got some interior shape. The driver form the Mutt will take this stead.
23 September 2015, 23:17
Steven Van DyckAbout the axle joints, the leaf springs are simplified to strengthen the axles. That' s visible at picture 60. The strips connecting the axle to the springs interrupted at the separation line should actually be bolts running along the whole heigth of the joint.
8 October 2015, 22:54
Steven Van DyckDriving straight forward is boring, so lets chop off those front wheels and put a wire in them.
9 October 2015, 10:17
Steven Van Dyckheadlight protection for the V100 is added and a plaster base is cast looking like a slice of road.
19 October 2015, 22:16
Steven Van DyckThanks, I just simulated a mine explosion under the M151 with the aid of a drill, a knife and a hot metal plate under the wheel. Then I primed everything.
23 October 2015, 21:21
Steven Van DyckNow the Commando got its first pieces painted Tamiya Olive Drab.
24 October 2015, 17:27
Steven Van DyckThe base plate is now painted green and sand brown. The pictures show various stages of the models being primered, painted in Olive Drab as the base color, OD and Dark Yellow as post-shade and even some fine detail and sand filter on the V-100 tyres.
26 October 2015, 21:27
Steven Van DyckThanks, David. I can offer you a preliminary view today, the vehicles are painted and almost ready for weathering.
30 October 2015, 22:11
Steven Van DyckI bought Hornet heads for the Command drivers and found a spare B-25 sharkmouth decal to adorn the ftont hull.
1 November 2015, 22:24
David polakAmazing. Only thing i dont like that much are those plastic plants. Thats not a criticism, just that thay somehow dont fit all that fine detailed job you done on the models and figures.
1 November 2015, 23:46
Steven Van DyckWe'll see about how good I can get them, if it doesn't work out I still have some sphagnum moss.
4 November 2015, 23:24
Steven Van DyckMig's wash for NATO Camo comes also in handy for Olive Drab. An extra figurine joins the V100 crew.
11 November 2015, 00:48
Steven Van DyckMost of the parts are now assembled. A brown filter has been sprayed on the underside of the vehicles.
11 November 2015, 22:37
Steven Van DyckThanks, Calvin! I just washed the crew with AK NATO 3-tone and painted some extra detail on the plants. The base is sprayed Armypainter matte and the vehicles are glued to it.
10 December 2015, 01:26
Steven Van DyckThe project is finished! The diorama has won a sponsor's prize at BSMC 2015.
14 December 2015, 16:23
David polakCongratulations. Amazing job. No offense but i still think that the vegetation is at least one level lower from the suberB vehicles and realy great figures.
15 December 2015, 06:20
Steven Van DyckThanks, David. It was an experiment and what proved useful can be repeated.
15 December 2015, 10:33
Album info
This album will contain pictures from the builds of two vehicles, a dozen of figures and a diorama about a VC ambush on a MP convoy somewhere later on in Vietnam. There will be an M151 Mutt and a V-100 Commando.
