I’m going to be building the middle of these three vehicles:
On the left is a YP 408, in the middle a Mowag Piranha 8×8, and on the right the only Fuchs 8×8 ever built — the last two with the same turret as fitted to the YPR 765. This was apparently a trial to find an alternative in case the YPR was unsuccessful, but no more than these single vehicles were procured, and temporarily at that.
This model is inspired by a thread on the TWENOT forums in which the Fuchs is being built as a what-if, and somebody else posted the two photos above of the trials. That in turn reminded me that I have the following in my stash:
An Italeri LAV-AD, from which I had taken one of the missile launchers to put onto my IDF M247; the turret from an AFV Club YPR; and a set of LAV wheels from Trumpeter, which I had bought for when I would build the LAV, because the Italeri wheels are pretty poor, and for €3.95 new I could not really pass these up as a quick improvement. The LAV-AD doesn’t appeal to me much anyway, so this way I can make something more interesting out of the kit.
In all, this, plus some more bits from my spares boxes, will become a Piranha PWI-GR (Pantser Wiel Infanterie — Groep, “Armour[ed] Wheel[ed] Infantry — Group”) of the Netherlands Army, sometime in the late 1980s as it might have appeared had it gone into service.