Of course it counts! (Somewhere I have one of the first batch that I built for a review, but never managed to paint or do final assembly…)
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Ok just found the Miniart Finnish tank crew set, two of the figures from that set will work with this I think. So we have a plan, a cunning plan or a fiendish plan I’m not sure and will the plan survive contact with the bench hell knows.
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Does the Takom kit not fill the bill?
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No 'fraid not, or as far as I’m aware. The earlier version is the one I’m after - to cover, say, the 80s - only modelled - as I say, by the late DJ Parkins. Shame really. I was looking forward to a small dio with Royal Marines in an Artic warfare setting.
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@BootsDMS Brian the BV-202 is the one you’re after I believe.
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No = the iteration after this one.
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I wanted the 206 as well, it was the tracks that put me off. When I found out the tracks had changed I went and had a look, none available at the time,
Hopefully someone may produce in 3D.
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If you do find a Bv 206 and need references, I’ve got a whole series of photos, inside and out, of one I came across about fifteen years ago at a Dutch military recruiting event in my area:
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and the word bandvagn consists of the two words band and vagn,
literally tracked wagon.
We do love to string words together so pansarbandvagn (PBV) is an armoured
tracked wagon and a pansarvärnsbandvagn is a tracked wagon for defence against armour (värn means something like defence, cover, protection).
There was also the pansarvärnsrobotbandvagn (robot means missile in this context, otherwise it is a machine in a factory, industrirobot and robot comes from robota which is Czech for slave/serf)
Värnlös is to be without defence, defenceless, lös is more or less the same as less when less is used in words like hopeless, powerless, brainless et.c
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It’s always funny how people frequently excuse their language for doing that, when English is the exception rather than the rule in this respect where Germanic languages are concerned 
(And, I must grudgingly admit, Dutch is a bit of an edge case here, in that officially, compound nouns should be written as one word, but in practice many people suffer from what some linguists here call “English disease” — which appears to be especially virulent in the Dutch Army.)
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It was mostly a statement of a fact 
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Excellent clip,thanks for posting.
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I am calling this one done 
A very nice kit with a nice and basic interior in the hull and nice busy turret interior.
Thanks for a great campaign - so many cool and interesting entries!
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Wow! Very nice indeed.
Nothing like going down to the wire(!)
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I am calling this hot pile of trash complete for this campaign. Not really the kits fault, all operator error. Last straw was attaching a fender, too much pressure with a slip and crunch. Track, idler wheel went flying with 3 fender brackets busted. The sound almost made me almost 
when I heard it.
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Ryan, looks good enough from there - though I feel your pain!
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Thanks Brian.
Might update after making repairs but part of me just wants to move on to other projects.
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Great job Jesper.
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No matter the setback with the final fender bender, thats a great looking build Ryan. Job done, move onto something fresh and readdress it when you feel the need 
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