Meng 1/35 Husky TSV

[Mr Bowcat]

Afternoon all.

After a full year of building motorcycles I thought it was about time to get back to something armed and armoured. I built the M1240A1 M-ATV almost exactly a year ago, this is very similar but in British flavour.



This will be a fairly straightforward build, I might scratch some radio gear. With the M-ATV I bought the 3D printed radio's and put in a lot of wiring detail, but realised at the end that you can't really see any of it anyway.

[Mr Bowcat]

Morning all.

Made a start on this one yesterday, after a year of building bikes this fell together easily.

The kit is basically three parts, the chassis/running gear/bonnet, the cab and the rear bed. Without an engine the first part went fast.

Chassis/running gear.


Bonnet and wheels.


And a quick test fit of all the parts.


This all needs a pin wash, and later some dirt and sand, but I think I will move on for now and do all the weathering when the various sub assemblies are together.

Paint is Hataka C238 Desert Tan, and some Tamiya LP for the blacks. I actually found I was almost out of the C238 so had to order more. Paint was £3.30, delivery was £4.50, so naturally had to add a cheeky kit to the order to make the postage worthwhile. :tears-of-joy:

[Allen Dewire]

Wow Bob, you really are off to a quick start on this one. You haven't lost your touch working in 1/35 either. That looks great!!!

Paint was £3.30, delivery was £4.50, so naturally had to add a cheeky kit to the order to make the postage worthwhile. :tears-of-joy:

Yup, one has to do what one has to do to save that postage!!!...

Prost
Allen

[scottie3158]

Bob,
Count me in mate. If it's anything like your bikes we are in for a treat.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers guys.

Didn't do much over the weekend, was out at the range most of yesterday practicing with a new rifle.

I did get most of the bits for the cab of the sprues and cleaned up ready for painting.

[Mr Bowcat]

Morning all.

I've been working on the cab interior. As mentioned before the kit doesn't come with any type of radio gear to fill the shelving. Having built the M_ATV previously and splashing out on a 3D printed radio set I knew that not very much would be visible once the doors are on (even when open) so I decided to scratch some bits to go in there.

Now, full disclosure, I'm not much of a scratch builder but I used my imagination and made some blobs to represent radio's, transceivers, amps and a headset. This is what it all looks like, along with some wiring.





And this is what the interior currently looks like.





It's just had a first weathering pass with some oil's at the moment, I will go back over it with sand and dust pigment to make it look a bit more lived in before closing up the cab.

[Mark1]

Im not much of a scratchbuilder or i dont scratch build much ! Theres a difference, your the latter. Lovely job :thumb2:

[scottie3158]

Bob,
That scratchery passes muster they look like comms equipment. Nicely done.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers gents.

[Jim R]

All come together very quickly. Looking good especially the scratch built radios etc.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Jim.

[Jack L]

I do enjoy your builds Bob, this one is no exception!

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Jack.

[Mickc1440]

Great start to your build Bob and that radio gear looks brilliant

[stillp]

Blobs??? Hardly, those are great.
Pete