Simply fantastic finish Brian. Certainly a conversation piece.
It has been a pleasure seeing this one evolve, in both threads.
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It came out looking awesome. Great finish.
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Thanks Peter; I’m not too sure such a beast will ever look “normal” as such, but I’ve tried(!)
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Thanks Gino; at times a bit frustrating, but that was down to me, especially my usual wrestle with figures.
Thanks again.
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Excellent model Brian! Not sure if the Reds would be able to fight back, with them so busy saying “What is that strange thing?”…
(I love the way the loader is staring off to the side, bored out of his mind on the route march!)
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I think, in fact I know, that he’s hoping that the good citizens of Losau include some eye candy on the streets, or at least that’s what I’d be hoping for.
I explained it thus in a somewhat protracted backstory over within my parallel thread “Chrysler TV-8”; I’m afraid I’ve forgotten how to cross reference or link it up - assuming you’re interested that is (!)
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He misses his Fraulein!
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Er, right; thanks!
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Just get the grandkids to show you, 20 times, like I do
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Is anyone else thinking “War of the Worlds”? This thing is too cool for school.
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That does fit!
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With some dirt on the tyres and the underside of the hull, plus an antenna on the rear, I feel the Piranha PWI is finished:
I took the tyres off, drybrushed a light mud colour over the running surfaces, and spattered that same paint over the lower hull as well as a little over the sides of the tyres. The antenna is 0.3 mm spring steel that I painted OD after glueing it in place.
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Nice work! Not quite as filthy as I’d portray it but that’s just me(!)
No, lovely work indeed.
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Thanks 
Part of it is that I just wanted this one finished because it was so close, and I have three other models I’m working on now plus a few more I would like to be working on but won’t let myself yet. Another part of it is that I looked at photos of Dutch Army vehicles on exercise ca. 1990 (in the Nederlandse Troepen book by Tankograd), and most of them were very clean other than some dirt on the lower parts. That could be because most of those photos were taken on or near roads, of course, but it gave me a plausible finish to get this model done
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Great job Jakko. A fine addition to your collection.
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Thanks It’s already standing next to a Dutch Army Centurion I built right after the first AFV Club kit of those came out
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It also depends at what stage in the exercise the pics were taken - I assume they all start out clean!
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And they all end up squeaky clean! The motor sergeant at the wash rack won’t take it back until it’s cleaner than when he issued it to you!
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