Model Armour

At last that can be seen that this novelty from AFV represents! Good luck Steve!

Thanks, Stewart.
I saw those figures announced over on PMMS. THey look very good. It'll be awhile before those hit the market, I think, too late for this build. But they might come in handy for others.

Evgenij,

Thank you. Still have a ways to go, but it's shaping up.

Hi Steve

I have my own home made concoction I use to weather Fruil tracks and like you, had the same problem. So I simply weathered the links before I assembled them. Problem solved. The good thing is that Fruil now seem to be supplying brass wire for the link pins which isn't affected by the mixture so you can assemble them first now.




While I don't have photographic evidence, I'd imagine that the tracks would rust up pretty quickly. After all, the Pacific has the same salt water content as the rest of the world's oceans.

Otherwise, this is looking mighty fine Looking forward to the next update.

Gary

Gary,

"So I simply weathered the links before I assembled them. ". To use a quote from one of my favorite movies, The Great Escape,

"Why didn't anyone think of that before? It's so stupid, it's positively brilliant! "

Can't say it better than that. That's so simple a solution I don't know why it never occurred to me. I'll have to remember that if I use Fruils again.

As for the rust. Same here, not too much photographic evidence to support what I think. Yes, the tracks would have rusted while they were sitting still. But the LVT's weren't sitting still for long. THe battle of Iwo Jima lasted about 7 days in which time, those LVT's that weren't destroyed would have been shuttling troops/supplies/cargo and forth from the invasion ships. THe sand on those beaches would probably have worn the rust off the tracks farely quickly. At least that's my theory.

However, the tracks are on the model permanently

Progress is slow. Here's what I've been working on.

I had planned to have the LVT unloading a jeep and some supplies, but I wanted something different. On this site, http://ww2db.com/index.php, I found a picture of a jeep modified as a litter carrier. So, I took Tamiya's jeep that I had partially built last year. I removed the windscreen, moved the spare wheel and jerry can holder and scratch built a simple frame, both for the front and back. I painted the jeep overall faded OD and will weather with pigments. The framework was painted to resemble plain steel.





I'll move on to adding some details while I wait for those blasted decals to get here....

Love the jeep Steve.....

nice conversion!

Frerik

Thanks, Frerik.

From the picture I was working from, I can't determine if the rear seat was installed or not. I decided to leave it in - one less thing to have to hide.

" Don't fix it if it isn't broke " right??

Most pics of ambulance jeeps I have seen, carry both sitting and lying down wounded.
So it would make sense to leave them in: this way they could carry two stretchers over the hood/bonnet,
and sit four in the back....!

Frerik

My thoughts exactly.