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JGSDF LAV
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sauceman
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Ontario, Canada
Joined: September 28, 2006
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Posted: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - 12:51 AM UTC
Marco Sari (AKA JUPITERBLITZ) shares with us his build of Tamiya''s JGSDF LAV, enjoy!



If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
LonCray
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Virginia, United States
Joined: August 24, 2005
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Posted: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - 04:27 AM UTC
What a gorgeous little truck! I picked up a pair of these a few months ago and have been slowly building one ever since - it's too bad Toyota or Nissan or whoever manufactures it hasn't civilianized the thing for the American 1:1 market.
DeskJockey
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Posted: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - 02:19 PM UTC
Wow--very nice LAV! Mine is gathering dust waiting for me to make time (and with a three-month-old, it will be a little while).
Grenadier37
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Posted: Monday, August 10, 2009 - 06:57 AM UTC
Great work Marco! The weathering looks superb.
gralexxl
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Minsk, Belarus
Joined: September 28, 2004
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Posted: Monday, August 10, 2009 - 08:56 PM UTC
Beautiful model. My congratulations! But there are small discrepancies and defects. It is necessary to remove a seam on tyre covers in the middle. There are no lattices on headlights. There is no white star on a car cowl. There are no handles for closing of a cover of a cowl.
I too did the car, with the same number if it is interesting she can be seen here http://gralexxl.livejournal.com/2718.html#cutid1
I am sorry for bad English language.
Jupiterblitz
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Posted: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 10:09 AM UTC
Hello everybody,

and thank you very much for your kudos.



"But there are small discrepancies and defects"

You are right, but to build a model strictly OTB implicates some minor inaccuracies.

The mentioned lattices and handles are not provided with the kit as are some other small details like a rearview mirror.


"It is necessary to remove a seam on tyre covers in the middle"

That's correct too, but I had put up with it during assembly and in particular the paint job.


"There is no white star on a car cowl"

Ja, indeed, but the whole decal sheet was somehow brittle, and thus the star could not be used.



This LAV should simply show that a model can be built nicely without any AM sets or extra work like scratch build and by using the colours stated in the instruction only.

(Without the pigments it would have been qualified for the DMoM's beginner class as no advanced painting techniques were used - not even washing...)

Believe me, that's also a challenge.

35th-scale
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Joined: November 21, 2007
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Posted: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 08:54 PM UTC
Das ist sehr gut Marco. Ich liebe es!

Much better than my effort: http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc69/35th-scale/LAV2.jpg

And I know what you mean about the decals.

Gruss,
Sean
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Posted: Friday, August 28, 2009 - 12:11 PM UTC
That is very cool I think that look awsome how long did it take you
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