m1131 stryker and dio

[Liamcraven666]

I had the urge to build an Armour kit a couple weeks back and decided to look in my stash ...but non of the kits really interested me, so i thought i would look online for a kit and stumbled upon this and had the idea to build a simple base for it. And so I bought this and some supply s for it! here it is ;

ohhh... i love buying things

[Noobmodeler521]

WHOA!!! I can't wait to see how this is going to go.
definitely watching this one.

[InitialProduction1]

Looking forward to this, make sure to give me/us a peek at the plastic before you start, haven't seen trumpeters stryker, and I just haven't built any modern armor yet.

[schweinhund227]

I luv strykers... Can't wait for you to share your progress on this baby ! Take care.

[Liamcraven666]

Looking forward to this, make sure to give me/us a peek at the plastic before you start, haven't seen trumpeters stryker, and I just haven't built any modern armor yet.

sure thing , this kit comes with a fair bit of P.e too!

[Liamcraven666]

I'm going to start off with the base...

for the base i cut a 2cm thick piece of wood to the right size , painted the top with white glue and put Das clay on the top.
Then once the clay dried I sanded down the edges.






...sorry for the bad picture quality , the camera i normally use is the one that is on my phone but it got dropped so I've had to use the camera from my old phone

[Liamcraven666]

I've painted the base with a flat brown colour and the edges with tamiya Xf-1....

[Liamcraven666]

I've now flocked the base, the flock is made from woodland scenic fine ballast (brown) , green fine turf ,lichen and citadel static grass.
(And again , sorry for the bad picture quality )





...I'm going to put the rest of the flock on at the sides after I've given the base another coat of black.

[InitialProduction1]

Good start on the base, you adding any trees, or bushes? I've looked back at the beginning of your build and didn't see any, and isn't that a grass mat? I love those things, anyway this looks like a fun build my friend,

[Liamcraven666]

Good start on the base, you adding any trees, or bushes? I've looked back at the beginning of your build and didn't see any, and isn't that a grass mat? I love those things, anyway this looks like a fun build my friend,

I'm going to be adding some long grass and small bushes , the grass mat thing in the picture is a bit strange and I'm not too sure how to use it. I was going to use it as the main ground cover for the base but its too small
So I'm most likely make use of it by taking tufts off it

[privatepete]

Good start to the build, keep it up I will watch it come to life, good luck.

[Liamcraven666]

I've gone ahead and added some long grass to the base (that woodland scenic field grass stuff).
My plan is to show the stryker driving through a farmers fence , kinda like on the box art....

so here's how the base looks now

[InitialProduction1]

Very cool, yeah I'm sure there's a pissed off farmer in that field lol, looks ready for harvest, again really nice build/dio.

[Liamcraven666]

Very cool, yeah I'm sure there's a pissed off farmer in that field lol, looks ready for harvest, again really nice build/dio.

Thanks , maybe the farmer will understand that driving through a fence is just so much cooler than using the road!

[Liamcraven666]

I thought i should show my progress with the kit, so ill start by showing you the kit's contents...

[Liamcraven666]

construction of the chassis/lower hull...




Some very nice Pe details...


one again, sorry for the bad picture quality.

[Liamcraven666]

Upper hull construction...




and turret...




sorry for the bad pictures

[privatepete]

Hi very good, come with a lot of extra's looks great .

[InitialProduction1]

That's a box packed to the max with some cool goodies, thanks for the peek, and that is an awesome build, very nice Liamcraven.

[Liamcraven666]

I then primed the whole model in tamiya Xf-69 (nato black)


Then I base coated the whole model (except for the tires) with tamiya Xf-27 and then dry brushed the green part with citadel death world Forrest.



(sorry for the bad quality of pictures...)

I decided to lighten the model and add a bit more detail by highlighting the whole model with revell olive green.






The reason I've not used the paint set I had in the picture at the beginning is that i did not realize that they weren't acrylic, so they were a bit to volatile for me to be spraying without an extractor. And when i did try to spray the paint i found it rather hard to clean it out the airbrush , but this is probably not any fault of the paint because i didn't have the right thinners.

[Rodney]

Looking good.. Now i want to build the stryker i got in my stash

[schweinhund227]

oh wow ! that' was fast and it looks awesome thus far !

good luck with the rest of the project !

[Liamcraven666]

Thank you chaps.

[Liamcraven666]

Today i painted the details and then lightly airbrushed the model with tamiya flat earth to start off the weathering.

[privatepete]

Very good ,turnied out better than my APC has, keep up the he work.

[AdamLuscombe]

Wow, great work, i can't wait to see how this turns out!!

[Liamcraven666]

Sorry for not updating this in a while , i took a break and kind of forgot about it.
Anyway where's how the base looks so far:

[schweinhund227]

Looking forward to your reveal ! Great work thus far !!

[InitialProduction1]

Holy crap I have not seen this build yet it looks great, love the dio/vignette? Never know what makes them different. Other then the size. Or how many figures, I know bla,bla,bla, anyway great build.

[Liamcraven666]

So this is how the model looks on the base. I don't really think it looks right on the base and I'm not sure on how I'm going to tie the model into the base.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[InitialProduction1]

Looks great, Red against the blue, have a training exercise, two blue standing arms down, looking pissed, two red on the Stryker, mediator on the right , holding white, green, blue, yellow, red, tags. If my memory serves me. Those were tak colors. But it's been awhile, a younger guy might be of more help on modern color codes. oh well there's my idea. Again very nice build.

[Liamcraven666]

Looks great, Red against the blue, have a training exercise, two blue standing arms down, looking pissed, two red on the Stryker, mediator on the right , holding white, green, blue, yellow, red, tags. If my memory serves me. Those were tak colors. But it's been awhile, a younger guy might be of more help on modern color codes. oh well there's my idea. Again very nice build.

Seems like an interesting idea , I might look into it.
Thanks!