In being an eight-wheeler, sure, but the MOWAG Piranha (that the Stryker is based on) is rather smaller than the Boxer. Which is no surprise — almost everything is Here’s some video of an ambulance version in Dutch service, the size really becomes apparent when you see them lift a pretend-casualty in it towards the end:does it remind anybody else of the american 'stryker' ICM ?
That Revell green plastic is bad stuff - I tried to assemble the Revell ATF Dingo 2 with TET, but ended up reverting to Contacta, it always seems a little soft in the details as wellMade some progress.
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It's much bigger than I thought. Gotta start splashing paint around before I fit the driver's compartment but as I'll have the thing on it's back a lot while I'm fitting all the underside bits, I'll leave that until later.
Couple of points though.
PJ had a go at an old Monogram kit which seemed to be made of the same dark green plastic as this. He had lots of problems getting the parts to stick together with Tamiya Extra Thin. My feeling is that the Extra Thin isn't 'hot' enough so I'm using EMA Plastic Weld which is working really well on the plastic. It don't half dry quick though so I'm having to put plenty on the paint brush I'm using to make sure it doesn't all evaporate before I can get the brush from the bottle to the plastic! I kid you not - it does dry that quick!
There's plenty of mould seams and bits of flash - particularly on the bigger parts - but once they're cleaned up, the fit is excellent so no complaints about the kit so far. I've found one error in the instructions. They have parts 32 and 33 mixed up but a quick look at the diagram in stage 9 (next page) sorts that out.
That's it for tonight. Beddy-byes time!
That was the carpet monster, he fancied something a little stronger than plastic..And he's off. I like EMA plastic weld but do agree about how quickly it evaporates. I few years ago I forgot to put the top on a bottle overnight and almost half the stuff disappeared .
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