Tamiya M113 FSV

For the Great Ones-campaign I am doing Tamiya’s near-ancient M113 FSV in an Australian Vietnam deployment version.
That means certain details have to be changed.
The list so far;

  • adding extra amor to the hull bottom and sponson, but only in the visible places, since I did not have enough plastic card.
  • adding an extra antennabase and lifting eyes
  • adding tiedowns after removing the cast on strips.
  • removing smokedischarges and adding plate
  • adding German jerrycans (photo’s seem to suggest those) instead of the hopeloss kit cans
  • extending the trimvane
  • drilling holes where the skirts should be attached
  • adding wire to the cablereel.

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Here are some of the references I am using:

Look at the jerrycans on these 2! German or what?

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Another option from Grey Fox Concepts

H.P.

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That’s coming along great.

Cheers,
Ralph

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It’s a shame you ran out of plastic card - the missing panels under the sponsone would be a great addition. No hotel key cards of gift cards lying about? A friend of mine builds zombie apocalypse trucks out of unused small arms and other larger weapons I give him - along with almost exclusively using WalMart gift cards for his armor plating.

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I added pieces in the visible areas, so optically it has armor.

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they are not German ones but the British copy from WW2 and post-war and used by the Australians

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The FSV finally got a basecoat in Vallejo Model Air 71016 USAF olive drab. I found suggestions online that that colour approached the real one best.
Does look rather well and should be even better after weathering.

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Progress has been made!


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I completely forgot to update this one… but it is DONE!

Things done are:

  • addition of decals, which are NOT historically accurate (apart from the blue triangle), but give an impression of how similar vehicles would have looked.
  • several washes; dark around the wheels, lighter grey on the sides and the top and a brown one on the top and sides
  • followed by powder, which is a mix of sand and brick red.

Painting of the figure was not easy, since the details are very soft. So I resorted to base colours and washes.






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My understanding is that the belly armour only extended from the front of the belly to about the 3rd road wheel (based on info that used to be on the now defunct Mouse House page) - the photos of the in-country vehicles show the armour protruding beyond the edge of the hull side

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Nicely done. I have to get around to adding the decals to my own build.

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Which it does on mine too, just only optically. I did not have enough plasticcard to cover the whole underside. So I cheated.

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That looks real nice.

Cheers,
Ralph

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