Outstanding job on this project Brian. The Luchs looks excellent as does the figures and base.,Great job on camouflaging the Luchs. The nets look very realistic .
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Thanks Richard; I must admit I always have qualms about covering up all the detail that modellers normally aspire to, but, that said, I also like the businesslike, purposeful look of AFVs going about their day job.
Thanks again for the comments!
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I have yet to do a vehicle with camo netting on it and have to try at some point. It’ll have to get in line and wait like all the other projects!
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That has really come out well Brian. Looks like you are back in the groove so to speak!
Looking forward to seeing this at some point.
Well done that man!
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Thanks Terry; hopefully, see you at Yeovil, and the Spaehpanzer in the flesh!
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Excellent looking model. I love the cam net.
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Thanks Erik - always good to hear!
Outstanding model Brian! The Luchs is very well done and the nets and foliage are excellent. A lot of extra effort went into camouflaging that vehicle. Well camouflaged vehicles are rarely portrayed, and yours is presented brilliantly. Your figures are great, and animated, too. I can just hear the conversation going on between those two on the ground, and it ain’t pretty. Great job man.
Well, thank you very much Matthew. It’s always a bit of a leap of faith to cover a model as much as this one (though I’ve done it often enough before); a careful selection of figures always helps I find - depending on what one wishes to portray of course. The Dolp figures can be a bit of a mixed bag but in this case helped the story enormously. Hornet Heads help as usual.
There’s always more grief going down on exercises than one realises, tempers fray as fatigue sets in and the like, and that was what I was trying to depict, so I’m glad you approve(!)
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How did you make the antennas?
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Just brass wire Erik.
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Bravo Brian, that looks great – in fact it Luchs excellent. Somehow the camo/foliage gives it extra weight too, very convincing & I’m always a fan of the ol’ tealeaves ploy.
(To edit yourself, (logged in) go to your offending post & click the pencil icon at the end of it – your text should appear in a box where you can correct it. You might then want to delete the text in your Arghh post too 
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Superb scene you’ve created there Brian- easy to see what is going on thanks to your careful staging and depiction. I have to say I really admire your skills at creating realistic looking foliage and coverage on a vehicle- it looks the business!
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Ha! “Luchs excellent”, brilliant Tim; thanks for the compliments.
Tried to amend but couldn’t even seem to manage that simple task; academic in a way as I’m sure any Cold War warriors/modellers will find and understand what they need to.
Thanks again.
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Thanks Karl; it might just mean that the hours spent with the etch was worth it!
'Glad you like it.
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Just for completeness sake, (and because I forgot to post it earlier) here is the model in its A4 paper-sized box; the kit sits in what was the lid, and the box itself gives me antennae clearance/protection:
Ready for storage or transportation to shows.
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Looks like a great build. I finished mine in regular three-color camo, no foilage. Amazing to see just what a large vehicle the Luchs is. Sit a M577 command post track next to it and see!
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Thanks Jim; it is indeed a massive vehicle. It sort of seems counter intuitive to have a recce vehicle that large, but presumably the Bundeswehr knew what they wanted.
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