First time seeing any Stryker in the NATO 3 color camo scheme.
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First time for me as well. Where are the pictures taken? Korea?
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Yes, Korea from what the caption said where I found them.
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Awesome photos. I was always wondering why we have not Stryker in tri camo.
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Well, unless NATO decides to stop using that Camo alltogether, it seems logical to me.
I have the Trumpeter M1135 kit so will attempt to do the NATO camo on it one day. The photos in my OP show the right side camo pattern very clearly and I can make out most of the front and rear. The left side is harder to make out but I think there is enough shown that I can get the left side done. The top is where I will be stuck as no photos showing the top to get an idea of the pattern.
Stowage. Lots of stowage.
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Yes, I plan to fit some stowage on it. I have a partial set of the Legend stowage. I got it second hand from a friend and was free. This is the set but I only got the cluster between the hatches not including the MRE’s, spare tire, coil of wire and only a couple backpacks. I will have to go through my spares box and see what else I can add.
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Started the Trumpeter M1135 a few days ago. I didn’t take a lot of in-progress photos as I was busy most of the week taking care of my elderly parents. This is as far as I got as of early this morning. I was hoping to get it done so I can prime it this weekend and at least get the base coat down on Monday but not going to happen. Still a lot more plastic parts to add to the upper hull and quite a bit of PE as well.
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Keep up the great work! I’m unable to get hardly any modeling done right now so I’m living vicariously through you.
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Thanks! I started it Wednesday afternoon but I had to do stuff for my parents Wednesday, Thursday and today so didn’t get as far as I wanted. I was hoping to finish it so I could prime it this weekend and airbrush the base coat Monday but not going to happen. Wednesday morning, most of the day Thursday and all morning today I was busy doing stuff for my parents so everything is set back a few days. I was able to get most of the kit together late at night. I was actually up till midnight Thursday night and that is how I got at least half of it together.
I was also hoping to get the camo done on the second Panda M-ATV next week but I dropped it and a few parts went flying. I found most of the parts except for one that is lost forever to the carpet monster. Luckily, the RFM M-ATV has a couple of those parts as spares so I will use those RFM parts on the Panda kit when I get the motivation to get back to it.
Today I was able to attach some more parts to the upper hull and also about 3/4 of the PE. I might not be able to work on it tomorrow. Hopefully I can get back to it on Sunday. So more than likely won’t get to prime it this weekend
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I fit a Blast Models BFT to the Trumpeter kit. It was made for the AFV kit so some modifications necessary.
I also scratch built the DEK parts and used an Eduard PE part on the front. I have the Blast Models DEK set but again, it is made for the AFV kit and doesn’t fit the Trumpeter kit. I used the Blast Models set as a template to scratch the DEK but the AFV and Trumpeter kits are slightly different so lots of modifications to the scratch parts to fit the Trumpeter kit. It isn’t perfect but most of it won’t be seen anyway. I still need to add the bolt heads.
