Hello everyone and Merry Christmas, my latest little job, the BRDM-2 MS in service in the Russian army used in the SVO, I’m setting up a small diorama in which to set it with some figures
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Hi, it is a very nice model, I like it.
I have to say that I’ve built a model from the same kit of Dragon, and after some years I’ve found that all the tyres were broken for ageing. i suggest to consider some remedy, should the same thing happen to your model.
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I like it. I’ve been looking at possibly doing something similar and have been looking for a cheap Trumpeter BRDM 2 late and doing a Serbian version. Did you scratch all of the applique armour and thermal sight?
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@MassimoTessitori Yes it has already happened, I repaired them with cyano, I hope they don’t break again and it must be said that the wheel rim does not put tension on the tire so I remain confident.
@Maximus8425 Oh yes yes, it’s a scratchbuilt, sorry I didn’t write it, it’s the old Dragon kit, I don’t know that a kit of this version exists.
Now I’ll also post photos of the work done on the kit
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Very sweet model and excellent quality build!
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Thank you for appreciation
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Excellent build. 
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wow, that really turned well, great work there.
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Thanks for appreciation Klaus
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Lovely scene centred around a very interesting take on the BRDM- all the extra armor gives it a unique look and I particularly like the way you have weathered it- this helps tie it to your realistic base-work. Your figure work is first rate too- great facial expressions and interaction between the four of them. What brand are the figures you used?
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Wow I don’t know how I missed this. Excellent job on the scratch building and finish. Your figures are excellent too, a great scene! Excellent job Lucio!
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Nice conversion and very nice scratch building skills.
Olivier
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Thank you all for your appreciation, the figures used are a mix of pieces taken from various dragon kits, masterboxes and other parts taken from the spareparts bank, all then modified with magic sculpt, only the pilot’s head comes from a Hornet resin set of a mature man as it often happens to see in the various videos, for the other figures for which I created the balaclava I used heads from plastic kits. Unfortunately it didn’t occur to me to take photos because I hadn’t considered posting them at the time.
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Keep an eye out on the horrid rubber tire Dragon/DML use
one of 2 things will happen with the tires they will eaither start to ooze some sort of oily residue
or they will get very hard and brittle and break
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The kit is 30 years old, the tires are seasoned, luckily they didn’t sweat but they had already broken, I repaired them with cyano and luckily as there is no tension between the rim and tire I hope nothing else happens, thanks for the warning
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anytime
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Thanks for answering that- very impressive work with the figures.
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