As some of you may remember, my youngest daughter is an ADA officer in the US Army. She is currently a 1LT and the XO of a PATRIOT PAC-3 Battery at Ft Hood, TX. She asked me to build a few models of the vehicles in her battery to display around her office. I will be building four different models: PATRIOT PAC-3 Launcher, AN/MPQ-53 Radar, M1085 ECS Truck, and an M983A4 HEMTT Tractor. This thread will show how I am progressing on them.
First up is the PATRIOT PAC-3 Launcher. I built the Dragon kit a few years ago as a review on the old Armorama site. I took it off the shelf and remarked it with the bumper numbers from her battery; D BTRY, 1/62 ADA, 69 ADA BDE.
Very interesting, I admire your skills as to convert excisting kits to a specific purpose. Also, I look forward to see, how you will handle the M983A4.
Wow Gino, an ambitious project but your work so far is outstanding. Your scratchbuilding has always been really excellent. Your daughter is a lucky girl but Ryan is right, you are going to become a slave to your own excellence when her higher - ups put in their “orders”!
Very nice Gino! Congratulations on your daughter following in your footsteps. Neither of mine went down that road and it appears that none of my grandsons will bite either. Oh well…
HeavyArty those look amazing I might be hitting you up for some advice on the patriot builds as they and, on my list, but I want to build them in transport attached to M983s.
Impressive work to say the least…it’s great to see a mix of different colored plastics and white styrene.
I watched exactly one video of my son jumping out of a C-17 and instantly regretted encouraging him to join the military…ive since gotten used to the idea but it doesn’t mean i dont worry.
