Cheers Johnny, I picked this up for £20 at a model fair quite a while ago. I’ve got an AFV Club barrel and trough from my UN Scimitar build as I used an SMM update set. The Friul tracks were the most expensive part of the build at £40 delivered. The Eduard etch was cheap from E-Bay at about a tenner. I’ll be doing it in early Batus colours so green and sand.
Aren’t they still?
No mate, they are all sand now. Not sure when that happened but I have seen posts on other sites saying around 2010.
Good info, cheers
A quick update, added the welds to the final drive housings. There is a further one to add which I will do once the lower and upper hulls are joined.
Took some time last night to work on the headlights. The brushguards need cutting down as the bottom is completely wrong as you can see in the pics. Added a through armour block for the wiring and drilled the lights and added the wiring itself. Need to scratch a horn as the kit doesn’t come with one. Added some brass strip to the rear bins as the molded on catches were in the wrong place
I don’t think there is any more armour left at BATUS, at least for a couple of years now. Last photos I took in 2012 they were overall sand.
Jim
No armour left in BATUS? That was the whole point of BATUS wasn’t it?
In my view it certainly was. You can’t practice the all arms battlegroup training we used to do there anywhere else as nowhere has the required space or the templates needed for the various weapon systems that were used.