Global Scale Modeller

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

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

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.

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

InitialProduction1 wrote: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!

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

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

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.

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,

InitialProduction1 wrote: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

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

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

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.

InitialProduction1 wrote: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!

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

construction of the chassis/lower hull...




Some very nice Pe details...


one again, sorry for the bad picture quality.

Upper hull construction...




and turret...




sorry for the bad pictures

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

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.

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.

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

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

good luck with the rest of the project !

Thank you chaps.

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

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

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

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:

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

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.

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.

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.

InitialProduction1 wrote: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!