A couple of months back I obtained a few more Airfix Attack force vehicles from Glenn. Amongst them were two of the Troop Carriers that are modeled after British FV430 series of APCs, but are larger than 1/76 or 1/72 scale. Most likely they were made to a box scale in order to make them roughly the same size as the tanks releases by Airfix as part of the same series.
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| Oversized guns removed and plastic card hatches glued on. |
I have already added one of these vehicles into my Haradi forces as a mortar carrier, (
details here), and courtesy of Don M of
Brazos Evil Empire I obtained the name for this class of APC - the Gāmūs - which is Haradi for Buffalo. Now that I have three of these APCs I am tempted to use them as command or support vehicles for the 155mm SPG units.
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| Plastic card added to create bottom front plate. |
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| A better view of the hatches. |
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| Grey undercoat primer added. |
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| A coat of Vallejo Iraqi Sand is then brushed on. |
I also finally finished work on another vehicle for my Haradi forces, a 37mm autocannon mounted on a light truck. The truck is a c heap plastic toy that used to be included in sets of Army Men (an earlier post about these trucks is here), while the autocannon is made up of parts from a Hasegawa German 37mm AA gun, an Airfix 75mm Gun from their armoured car kit, and the gunner is from the Airfix Opel Blitz.
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| Basically it's another technical. |
A very simple and basic addition to my collection of technicals this AA truck is lacking in a number of details, but looks the part. I hope to add some more technicals and armoured cars to my Haradi forces in the next couple of weeks
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| A closer view of the gun. |
I might even play a game and post it on the blog!
