As mentioned in a previous posting this month I had purchased a ICM BTR-60P APC in order to flesh out my NK and Soviet era forces. After finishing off the T55 I launched into this kit as I want it on the table for a game this week.
Okay into the build, first up the wheel and axle assembly, pretty straight forward although there are two quite important issues.
1. The wheels do not fit into the axles, if you try and force them in they will split as seen above. I etched out space from the inner wheel with my trusty hobby knife to cure this problem.
2. The instructions are more than a little vague concerning if the strut for the axle goes on top of the inner hub or the bottom. I choose the top, but remain unsure if this is correct.
The hull construction is full on, lots of tiny pieces everywhere, and the detail is quite fine and usually totally flash free. Very brittle parts though, most handle rails, tools, foot steps, steering wheel and hull cover spars broken.
Underside detail.
With axles attached, as I said unsure if I have this right. I used superglue to mount as it without it I think normal plastic model glue would fail with the weight.
Basically as complete as I could make it. As I commented in the title this is a tale of two kits, there is the boxed kit as is, finely detailed but with most of those finely detailed parts broken, and there is my wargame kit, minus the guff.
Overall a reasonable build for a couple of hours, good enough for the table. Painting up next. Look, are those wheels right or not?
Sounds like a kit to avoid - unless it's cheap! Well done again for persevering with it.
ReplyDeleteA pig of a kit, I have one myself.And all I can say is the best of British to you sir!
ReplyDeleteCheers Rich.
IIRC I have 2 of these to assemble ;) Can wait of final look.
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Seem OK to me...
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that the really fine detail is often broken before you've even got the kit out of it's box. The detail on the Krupp truck is extremely fine...and on all three that I've bought, numerous very fine pieces of all three kits seem to be broken before I've removed the shrinkwrap. Great kits, though. The SdKfz 222 kit is more rugged...
Kits in mass production? You´ve got an unbelievabel output, Paul. Looks good so far. I´ve got one of these in 1:100 scale and never saw one in 1:72 befor!
ReplyDeleteHi Tim, I think you summed it up nicely.
ReplyDeleteRich, sometimes you need to take a walk on the wild side!
ReplyDeleteThomas, good luck to you and be very careful with the parts.
ReplyDeleteRegards Paul
Easternfunker, some nail on the head comments. I did see you picked up a 222 at the swap meet.
ReplyDeleteI just like them for the adventure mate.
Hi Mork, not mass production, believe me (I only have one). Who makes the 1/100 kits?
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