I’m thinking of redoing the armored doors. When we first got to Kirkuk, we just had the soft skin doors on the vehicles, then eventually took them off and sat like we was in little birds, ready to jump out before the truck even stopped moving. Then after we started encountering IEDs, we would take the trucks to the local welders/blacksmiths in the city and just have them cut out doors and protection plates to mount. This normally wasn’t painted and was a rusty colored bare metal. Towards the end of our deployment we started to receive the actual military grade up-armored package kits which were installed on base by US personal and those were in the sand color. And after careful consideration, and taking into account the type of armored plates I’m using, compared to Mario’s build, I’m actually using the hillbilly type armor from the beginning rather than the armor kits put on by US personal later on. You can tell the difference by the design and door layouts and hatches/locks. So, I’ll be CAREFULLY pulling the plates off and repainting in the original “unpainted” color of steel plate. Wish me luck fellas!
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Little update guys. I went ahead and painted the doors bare metal/rusty to depict the early version we had on the trucks. Everything is still in progress. Working on the exterior dust/dirt effects, exterior and interior stowage, tires, and still some interior gear like the SINGARS handsets. There’s also some panel lines that I still have to clean up, otherwise if it’s visible, they’ll probably be stowage covering it up. Hope I’m doing a good job, lol.
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Wow! Very nice!
Mario
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